Kifeas wrote:Choosing between the two!
On Sunday, we are called upon making a difficult decision on who will be our leader for the next 5 years, in anticipation that this will not become a reality due to having a solution of the Cyprus issue before the end of the term!
I find both candidates to be fairly honest and sincere, with good intentions and desire to serve the best interests of our country, much like Papadopoulos and all previous elected leaders were!
I will try to identify the strong points of each candidate that are of the most relevance to the long sought solution of the Cyprus problem, the most important issue lying in front of the GC society for so many decades.
Kasoulides has a better chance in exercising pressure on Turkey through external factors, mainly through the EU and its member states, mainly because of his party strong affiliations with the European People’s party (EPP –Christian democrats) and the fact that it constitutes the biggest /strongest alliance in the EU. He is certainly capable of overturning to a large extent the whatever negative climate may exist in the EU, due to our very disserved and rightful rejection of the Anan plan.
His disadvantage is that he was one of the supporters of the plan in the referendum, and his case for the much needed major changes to its illegitimate partitionist and apartheid philosophy, may not be as convincing! Furthermore, his rightwing conservative affiliations with the nationalistic portion of the GC society -those that feel ashamed to carry the flag of their country even during their campaign efforts to elected the very president of this country, may not be as convincing to the TC society either!
Imagine on Sunday night, if Kasoulides wins the election, an Eleftheria stadium full of thousands of Hellenic Republic flags and almost zero flags of the country for which Kasoulides was elected as its president! Definitely not the best message to be send to the TC community and those in the international community whose sympathy we seek in order to solve the Cyprus problem on the basis of one sovereign and independed federal bi-communal country but of one (united) people (one nation-state;) as opposed to the illegitimate, apartheid and partitionist one fervently promoted by the Turks (Turkey and the TC leadership,) based on the invented “virgin-birth” concept of a loose federation (read confederation) between “two nations” (people) “two republics” (two semi-sovereign ethnically based territories) and two religions!
Christofias, on the other hand, appears to have the better chances in exactly the opposite directions, than Kasoulides! He is not as competent in winning much of the international support Kasoulides would have been able to achieve, however he is more trusted among the masses of the TC community (not the TC leadership servants of Turkey’s illegitimate interests over Cyprus –those will be the most scared ones from his election.) Christofias is capable of sending much more positive messages towards the other community, will be more welcoming and facilitating to their needs, he is rightfully viewed as more pro-Cypriot and less ethno-centric and nationalistic; one that is capable of motivating and even mobilizing more effectively the TC community in exercising internal pressure on Turkey and to its sub-servient nationalistic leadership!
It is a huge dilemma we are faced with! If you believe that a fair and lasting solution to the Cyprus issue will more easily come through external (international) pressure on Turkey, which will then be transferred onto the TC leadership to abandon its illegitimate ambitions visa vie the solution, then Kasoulides –despite his other handicaps -may definitely be a better choice! If on the other hand, you believe that such a solution may more easily come through an internal pressure on Turkey and the TC leadership, exercised by winning the TC community itself, then Christofias is definitely a better choice!
I am personally not sure what is better (more effective) of the two options! I wish one candidate alone would have possessed both qualities together! Unfortunately, each one is better in only one direction, and I do not know which one (direction) is the most effective! It is a difficult dilemma!
PS: Miltiades, please do not come to this thread with your outdated obnoxious anti-communist syndromes! No one in the international community takes Christofia’s “pro-communist” background as serious as you imagine!
As I said yesterday, choosing between the two is a very difficult decision, as each candidate has their pros and cons, which I briefly tried to analyze in my previous post. I have earlier today cast my vote. It was blank, and I wrote on it “the choice is an impossible one under the circumstances!” Being a leftist, I would have wished to have been able to vote for a leftist! However, after careful analysis of all the parameters, I have reached to the conclusion that Kasoulides has the better chances in bringing to us a solution plan reasonably better to the Anan plan, than Christofias does!
The probability to be led to a solution similar to the unacceptable provisions of the A-plan, runs higher with Christofias than it does with Kasoulides! Having said the above, I need to add that it does not mean at all that both of them do not equally wish, intent or aim to a better solution plan! It only has to do with who has the better chances!
I know some of you will ask, why then didn’t you vote for Kasoulides, and instead you cast a blank ballot? I did not vote for Kasoulides, because my consciousness wouldn’t allow me to be associated in a direct and positive way with the ocean of Hellenic republic flags that will cover the Eleftheria stadium tonight –instead of the flags of the country for which the elections are held, should Kasoulides wins the presidency of the country. This does not have to do with me being “anti-Greek” in any way or form! I will gladly give lessons on Greekness or Hellenism to every little asshole that grabs the flag of the Hellenic republic (that’s what it is -and not the flag of Hellenism itself) and uses it for every stupid and unsuitable reason and purpose! It is politically wrong and sends all the wrong and negative messages, both internally and internationally, if tonight (should Kasoulides wins) the flags of our country will not be the vast majority during the celebrations –set aside to be the non existing ones, instead of those of another country! It weakens our positions and diminishes our chances for a proper solution to the Cyprus issue! It is about time in this country we stop letting the forest to be burned, in order save the tree (na afinoume synexos to gamo kai na pigainoume gia pournaria!)
