In today’s episode, the election campaign team of presidential candidate Nikos Christodoulides opted for total radio silence yesterday amid a swirling political uproar after reveals about a ‘secret deal’ he struck up with his main backers, junior opposition party DIKO. In other news, central prisons director Anna Aristotelous’ lawyers said there is a clear attempt to undermine her after she reported police corruption; and a swathe of the Karpasia peninsula is being carved into a military zone at the orders of the ‘government’ in the north, reports said yesterday.

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