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By Jacqueline Agathocleous
Published on January 27, 2011

A GROUP of former English School pupils, better known for their widely-supported petition calling for a cut in public servants’ benefits and pensions, are creating their own party to run for the parliamentary elections in May.

The Zygos Independent Citizens Movement – Zygos meaning ancient Greek scales, symbolising balance – is under no illusions of achieving any results in the forthcoming elections. But it hopes to offer food for thought.

The Movement’s basic principle is encouraging horizontal voting. “The people should be able to vote for the most appropriate candidate - whether they belong to a party or are independent – and not just one party,” Zygos member John Kannas told the Cyprus Mail yesterday. “This would reduce some of the power the political parties have, because citizens would be voting for the individual and not the party first.”

According to Kannas, the Movement feels the real problem in Cyprus is that political parties control the government. “And between them, in a very small oligopoly, the parliament, which is supposed to be controlling the operations of the government and serving the interests of the people of Cyprus.”

The Zygos members, some of whom were responsible for the island-wide petition calling for a reduction of state officials’ perks that gathered well over the desired 4,000 signatures, know it will be near impossible to achieve any kind of results in the upcoming elections, said Kannas.

“Time is short and we don’t know if people will grasp the message and to what extent they will adopt it; or whether they will be able to get away from the grapples of the political parties, who have been controlling them for so many years, primarily by using political polarisation,” he pointed out. “But we believe it is absolutely necessary to form this independent movement of citizens, with technically minded people – such as engineers, scientists and doctors with strong problem-solving skills – to remove some of the power that these small time lawyers and politicians have in trying to solve these problems of the state, which they are not trained to handle.”

Ultimately, Kannas said the vast majority of society’s problems – obviously excluding the Cyprus problem – could be resolved if people with the right technical knowledge were in the position to solve them.

“This would lead to a much better quality of life for Cyprus overall,” Kannas concluded.

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/cyprus/new-p ... e/20110127

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ES students of what year?

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Must be late sixties early seventies.

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That means they are like 60 years old
(Class year = date you LEFT the school )