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[zan]

05. January 2009. | 09:31

Source: SEtimes.com

The Communist Party (AKEL) will meet on Wednesday (January 7th) to discuss the month-long process of electing a new leader following the resignation of the previous leader, President Demetris Christofias.

The Communist Party (AKEL) will meet on Wednesday (January 7th) to discuss the month-long process of electing a new leader following the resignation of the previous leader, President Demetris Christofias, media reported.

Christofias will focus fully on ongoing reunification talks with the Turkish Cypriot community. "My presidential obligations do not allow me to serve the party ... to the extent that I would like," Christofias said in mid-December.

Is this normal...Just asking...

[Tim Drayton]

05. January 2009. | 09:31

Source: SEtimes.com

The Communist Party (AKEL) will meet on Wednesday (January 7th) to discuss the month-long process of electing a new leader following the resignation of the previous leader, President Demetris Christofias.

The Communist Party (AKEL) will meet on Wednesday (January 7th) to discuss the month-long process of electing a new leader following the resignation of the previous leader, President Demetris Christofias, media reported.

Christofias will focus fully on ongoing reunification talks with the Turkish Cypriot community. "My presidential obligations do not allow me to serve the party ... to the extent that I would like," Christofias said in mid-December.

Is this normal...Just asking...

I think so ... this isn't Cuba.

[zan]

05. January 2009. | 09:31

Source: SEtimes.com

The Communist Party (AKEL) will meet on Wednesday (January 7th) to discuss the month-long process of electing a new leader following the resignation of the previous leader, President Demetris Christofias.

The Communist Party (AKEL) will meet on Wednesday (January 7th) to discuss the month-long process of electing a new leader following the resignation of the previous leader, President Demetris Christofias, media reported.

Christofias will focus fully on ongoing reunification talks with the Turkish Cypriot community. "My presidential obligations do not allow me to serve the party ... to the extent that I would like," Christofias said in mid-December.

Is this normal...Just asking...

I think so ... this isn't Cuba.

That the best you can do...I am interested to know if his is normal in the "RoC" or have we now got a president without a party???? What are the reasons and the consequences......I think I will have to wait for an honest GC like Bananiot....

[Tim Drayton]

05. January 2009. | 09:31

Source: SEtimes.com

The Communist Party (AKEL) will meet on Wednesday (January 7th) to discuss the month-long process of electing a new leader following the resignation of the previous leader, President Demetris Christofias.

The Communist Party (AKEL) will meet on Wednesday (January 7th) to discuss the month-long process of electing a new leader following the resignation of the previous leader, President Demetris Christofias, media reported.

Christofias will focus fully on ongoing reunification talks with the Turkish Cypriot community. "My presidential obligations do not allow me to serve the party ... to the extent that I would like," Christofias said in mid-December.

Is this normal...Just asking...

I think so ... this isn't Cuba.

That the best you can do...I am interested to know if his is normal in the "RoC" or have we now got a president without a party???? What are the reasons and the consequences......I think I will have to wait for an honest GC like Bananiot....

Christofias is stepping down as party leader; he is not resigning from AKEL.

[zan]

05. January 2009. | 09:31

Source: SEtimes.com

The Communist Party (AKEL) will meet on Wednesday (January 7th) to discuss the month-long process of electing a new leader following the resignation of the previous leader, President Demetris Christofias.

The Communist Party (AKEL) will meet on Wednesday (January 7th) to discuss the month-long process of electing a new leader following the resignation of the previous leader, President Demetris Christofias, media reported.

Christofias will focus fully on ongoing reunification talks with the Turkish Cypriot community. "My presidential obligations do not allow me to serve the party ... to the extent that I would like," Christofias said in mid-December.

Is this normal...Just asking...

I think so ... this isn't Cuba.

That the best you can do...I am interested to know if his is normal in the "RoC" or have we now got a president without a party???? What are the reasons and the consequences......I think I will have to wait for an honest GC like Bananiot....

Christofias is stepping down as party leader; he is not resigning from AKEL.

And what are the implications if any....As I said...Just asking!!!

[Bananiot]

Presidents, sometimes rather euphimistically, step down as party leaders because they want to be "presidents of all Cypriots". Klerides did this in 1993 immediately after getting voted in and Papadopoulos did the same a couple of years after becoming president. Thus, Tim is correct in that there is a tradition for this to happen and this is a good thing in any democracy.

How AKEL chooses its leader is a different thing all together. In this party stalinist structures are still in place regarding the internal organisation of the party but it's outward policies very much resemble those of social democratic parties. Sounds amazing but remember, we do not have a fully fletched democracy yet. Democracy takes centuries of uninterrupted healthy political development to set in.

[Paphitis]

Presidents, sometimes rather euphimistically, step down as party leaders because they want to be "presidents of all Cypriots". Klerides did this in 1993 immediately after getting voted in and Papadopoulos did the same a couple of years after becoming president. Thus, Tim is correct in that there is a tradition for this to happen and this is a good thing in any democracy.

How AKEL chooses its leader is a different thing all together. In this party stalinist structures are still in place regarding the internal organisation of the party but it's outward policies very much resemble those of social democratic parties. Sounds amazing but remember, we do not have a fully fletched democracy yet. Democracy takes centuries of uninterrupted healthy political development to set in.

What you describe is common in most Western Democracies, where parties comprise many factional structures vying and competing for power.

This is democracy at its best.

There is certainly no difference between Cyprus and other advance Western Democracies such as Australia, other than the fact that Cypriots have NEVER been free to write their own constitution and hence democracy in Cyprus has been inhibited and restricted from the start.

This is no fault of the Cypriots, but is a slap in the face to those powers that have desired to subjugate the GCs, and who have achieved their aims as Cyprus is now divided.

Wake up Bananiot. You are a treasonous fool.

[zan]

Presidents, sometimes rather euphimistically, step down as party leaders because they want to be "presidents of all Cypriots". Klerides did this in 1993 immediately after getting voted in and Papadopoulos did the same a couple of years after becoming president. Thus, Tim is correct in that there is a tradition for this to happen and this is a good thing in any democracy.

How AKEL chooses its leader is a different thing all together. In this party stalinist structures are still in place regarding the internal organisation of the party but it's outward policies very much resemble those of social democratic parties. Sounds amazing but remember, we do not have a fully fletched democracy yet. Democracy takes centuries of uninterrupted healthy political development to set in.

Thanks Bananiot!

[Bananiot]

Just like Paphitis. Every body else is to blame except us. What a moron?

[Oracle]

Democracy takes centuries of uninterrupted healthy political development to set in.

And you are basing this statement, on which archetypal Democracy, that has had the good fortune of meeting with your approval?