The independent candidate for the presidency, Nikos Christodoulidis, issued a written response regarding the "insulting reports that do not respect our political culture".
The answer is as follows:
From the beginning of the election campaign, the independent candidate for the presidency of the Republic, Nikos Christodoulidis, declared that he would conduct an election campaign worthy of the level and culture of the Cypriot people. With arguments, political proposals and positions and respect for the Republic and its opponents.
He keeps this promise to this day and will not break it until the end of the election campaign.
However, we are sorry to note that to the proposal of Mr. Nikos Christodoulidis for maximum possible unity and to his intention, if he is elected to the presidency of the Republic, to form a Government of wide acceptance, the response is offensive references that do not treat honor to our political culture.
After sharks, goldfish, elephants and Trojan horses, they now make other equally offensive characterizations.
It is surprising that they discovered all this after nine years.
We will not follow them.
Nikos Christodoulidis, in the difficult times we are going through, politicizes as always and asks for the vote of the Cypriot people to unite and not to divide.
The final judge will be the Cypriot people, in whom we trust.