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Outrage over block flight bookings for elections
By Leo Leonidou
THE SPOKESMAN of Presidential candidate Ioannis Kasoulides has criticised President Tassos Papadopoulos’ campaign team over an apparent block booking of airline seats for overseas students who will be voting in February’s election.

According to an online newsletter, the Papadopoulos camp has booked several thousand seats, taking up the majority of the supply, which has forced the opposition to make other arrangements.

Loucas Fourlas told the Mail: “We have also heard this rumour and if it turns out to be true, we will be very annoyed as we feel they are trying to block the other candidates.”

Fourlas added that his camp will now arrange for charter flights.

“Exact details will be known closer to the time and we are expecting all students to let us know of their plans. It’s too early to know exactly how many there will be, but the number will be in the thousands for sure.”

He added that Kasoulides enjoys the strongest support from students, especially from the US, UK and Greece.

“The cost for the charter flights is expected to be very high, but what else can we do,” he wondered.

The spokesman also called for a change to the electoral system which would allow Cypriots abroad to vote in their country of residence, as is the case in much of Europe.

“If we want to call ourselves European, we must follow their lead,” he said.

No representatives from the Papadopoulos or Christofias camps were availlable for comment on the matter, while Cyprus Airways said that they will be allocating seats between the three candidates equally.

“There have been 30,000 seats allocated between them and these are not just for students but for all Cypriots,” explained Kyriacos Kyriacou.

“Close to 26,000 will cover Athens, Thessaloniki, Heraklion, London, Stansted, Birmingham and Manchester while the rest will cover Oman, Bahrain and Beirut.”

He added that no seats have been paid for yet but that they have been set aside as reserved.
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[Nikitas]

Same crap happens during every GC and Greek election. I emember the exact same discussion back in the days of Kyprianou. THey should outlaw these flights or give everyone a free ticket.

[zan]

What are the chances of that happening

[fanourıo]

I give free dinners and transfer with limo, so many calls I got you cant imagine!

[Get Real!]

I give free dinners and transfer with limo, so many calls I got you cant imagine!

Cut it out Fano and post something interesting...

[boomerang]

with all this business and at this time, the high roller shift, how the hell do you get the time to post?...shouldn't you be flat out entertaining your guests?...just vunderrring

[humanist]

Dirty tricks...

Are those naurty Greek speaking Cypriots up to no good again? LOL Zan ... is it possible that Turkish speaking Cypriots do anything tricky themselves?

[zan]

Dirty tricks...

Are those naurty Greek speaking Cypriots up to no good again? LOL Zan ... is it possible that Turkish speaking Cypriots do anything tricky themselves?

Yeh! We vote for unification and you don't....