Nicolas Papadopoulos’ pro-people transformation on economic matters during the election campaign is an admission of his political guilt about the measures and policies which together with Averof Neophytou and Nicos Anastasiades they were imposing in favour of the privileged few to the detriment of working people, the middle strata, pensioners, the vulnerable groups of the population and SME’s

 During the pre-election campaign, Nicolas Papadopoulos has remembered the middle class, the pensioners and the vulnerable groups of the population, but in previous years, together with his partner on economic matters DISY President Averof Neophytou, he blamed them as being responsible for the banking crisis, cutting their incomes.
 During the pre-election campaign, Nicolas Papadopoulos has remembered the middle class, the pensioners and the unemployed who are in danger of losing their primary family home, but for years, together with Nicos Anastasiades, he was imposing on them the same tax rate as those with tens of millions of Euros of immovable property.
 During the pre-election campaign, Nicolas Papadopoulos has remembered the borrowers, but in the past years he did whatever was needed to leave them and their guarantors at the mercy of the bankers without any web of protection for the primary family home and small business premises.
 During the pre-election campaign, Nicolas Papadopoulos has remembered the protection of the Semi-governmental Cyprus Telecommunication Authority (CYTA), but all through the previous years he was voting together with his twin Averof Neophytou on economy issues either in favour of selling off our national wealth and property, or against the draft laws tabled by AKEL aiming at annulling the privatization of the profitable Semi-governmental organizations.
Mr. Papadopoulos’ list of pre-election pro-people transformations is long. Perhaps the only one to which he has remained faithful to, as the advocate – literally and metaphorically – of the banks and bankers, is his defence of the former Governor of the Central Bank Athanasios Orphanides, during whose term of office the banks’ losses that led the Cyprus economy to the catastrophe took place, and by doing so vindicating once more Mr. Giorkatzis’ phrase about the Averof-Papadopoulos policy as the duo of Orphanides.

Statement by Yiorgos Loucaides, AKEL Political Bureau member and AKEL-Left-New Forces Parliamentary Representative
AKEL C.C. Press Office, 7th December 2017, Nicosia