#Diko

Opposition party Akel is bent on taxing banks’ historically high profits on Thursday, while critics argue the move intended to effect social justice is misguided. Member of the House finance ...

Economist Stelios Platis was the forerunner for Cyprus’ new auditor-general that Diko MP Zacharias Koulias had planned to appoint this week, when he would have free rein as acting President ...

Andreas Angelides, lawyer and former Diko MP, died on Thursday. His funeral will be held on August 2 at the church of God’s Wisdom in Strovolos, at 4.30pm. Angelides was ...

Grief, anger and a call to urgently solve the Cyprus problem were the key themes from political parties on Saturday, who paid tribute to the 50-year anniversary since the Turkish ...

Diko accidentally endorsed the wrong Famagusta mayoral candidate in a text message sent to its members on Tuesday. The message invited members to attend a rally at the Radisson Blu ...

It is rather amusing how the extreme right nationalist party Elam has become the centre of attention in the election campaign. With opinion polls indicating that Elam could finish third ...

Elam leader Christos Christou on Wednesday insinuated that Diko leader Nicholas Papadopoulos “attends LGBT fiestas” during a televised interview with the pair. They were debating various matters on Sigma TV, ...

Previous governments’ inaction over the issue of migration constitutes “a crime against the country and against our people,” Diko leader Nikolas Papadopoulos said on Friday night. Speaking to party members ...

Parliament is reviewing a legislative proposal allowing members of the public to introduce legislation if the proposal garners 5,000 signatures, an MP with the Diko party confirmed on Thursday. Speaking on ...

A new open wing at the central prison is set to be opened by the end of the month, Justice Minister Marios Hartsiotis said on Friday. Hartsiotis was speaking following ...

Diko leader Nikolas Papadopoulos on Friday expressed his “satisfaction” with the government’s defence spending target and with the progress being made to reach it. The government has set a ...

Diko is ready to collaborate with any political force that shares similar or aligned positions, whether at the governmental or parliamentary level, party president Nikolas Papadopoulos said on Tuesday. Referring ...

George Solomou was elected new General Secretary of centre party Diko following in-house elections on Sunday. Solomou won with of 48.1 per cent of the votes (3,359 votes), the party announced. Chrysanthos ...

Centre party Diko was headed to the polls on Sunday to vote for its vice president, general secretary, members of its executive office and its central as well as district ...

Ten years after he first took on the post, Diko president Nicholas Papadopoulos on Tuesday was the only party member to register his candidacy to lead the party after elections ...

LAST Sunday’s Diko conference turned into a love-in, party leader Junior exercising zero restraint in his public adulation of his new political idol – Prez Nik II. “If you did ...

Diko is proud to have played a decisive role in the “selection, support and election of Nikos Christodoulides to the presidency of the Republic,” party leader Nicholas Papadopoulos said on ...

After almost two decades of the Annan Plan referendum on the Cyprus problem, Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar said that the Greek Cypriot side was rewarded for rejecting the plan, ...

Deputy Minister for Culture Michalis Hatzigiannis on Friday attempted to give some kind of closure to a recent blunder by his office after an official post was made by his ...

Main opposition Disy and junior party Diko agreed on Monday to inform the public on the basis of a solution to the Cyprus problem. Earlier, the two parties’ leaders house ...

Road bumps are doing more harm than good as they are contributing to increased pollution and causing health problems, Diko deputy Christos Orphanides said on Friday, following up on a ...

Diko is to hold leadership elections by June, in which current leader Nicolas Papadopoulos will again run, it was announced on Wednesday. The party, which gave influential backing to president-elect ...

Diko president Nicholas Papadoupoulos on Tuesday said he was open working with Disy, after the outgoing ruling party’s candidate did not make it to the runoff election on Sunday. ...

Parties on the domestic front have expressed their concern over the UN Secretary-General’s reports on the Cyprus problem, saying it was gravely worrying though each for a different bag ...