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Akel and Disy were embroiled in a full day of bickering on Thursday, where they compared each other to Elam. Ahead of looming elections, the two large parties drew their ...

Two local officials of Dromolaxia-Meneou will be giving their depositions at the Kiti police station on Wednesday, following their scuffle at a village café on Tuesday, following damage to the ...

Niovi Parisinou, who served as deputy government spokeswoman under President Nicos Anastasiades, has not yet been kicked out of Disy despite nominating Elam’s Geadis Geadi for the European Parliament ...

Right wing Disy emerged as the frontrunner in the recent poll conducted by ANT1 ahead of the upcoming European elections on June 9. The lead is closely contested by left-wing Akel, ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Thursday welcomed the new pact among EU states dealing with migrants and asylum seekers, calling it “a step in the right direction” as political parties here ...

Disy on Wednesday called on President Nikos Christodoulides to convene a National Council meeting, charging he was not keeping political parties briefed. A short but poignant statement by Disy quoted ...

Disy leader Annita Demetriou said on Tuesday that those who care about the party should be “with us and not against us”. Speaking on the sidelines of a press conference, ...

Disy had warned the ‘situation’ in Gaza would affect the migration crisis, party leader Annita Demetriou said on Tuesday, as she called for a collective approach within the EU to ...

Political party Disy will emerge victorious in local and EU elections on June 9 this year despite being attacked from all sides, party leader Annita Demetriou said on Saturday. In a ...

The former vice president of Disy, Marios Pelekanos, who resigned from his post a few weeks ago in a sulk because he had not been selected as a party candidate ...

Disy has no other choice but to win in the upcoming elections, party leader Annita Demetriou said on Friday, stressing Disy was facing an “unprecedented and merciless war”. She charged ...

UN Secretary General personal envoy Maria Holguin, who is paying her second visit to Cyprus, will continue her contacts on the island on Thursday. At 11.30am, she is due to ...

Disy Vice-President Marios Pelekanos said on Thursday his resignation is final, following rumours he would stay on with the party, with many rejecting his decision to leave, after he didn’...

Annita Demetriou, the leader of Disy and President of the House, has the highest approval rating among politicians. She is the only politician that more than 50 per cent of the ...

Disy party will continue its support of Gesy, party leader Annita Demetriou said on Monday. She was speaking during a meeting with state doctors union Pasyki and committee chairman and ...

Marios Pelekanos on Monday resigned as vice chairman of Disy, two days after failing to be selected as a candidate for the party for June’s European Parliament elections. However, ...

House President Annita Demetriou on Wednesday met with delegations of two Turkish Cypriot political parties, the CTP and the TDP, as well as former Turkish Cypriot Leader Mustafa Akinci. Demetriou’...

Former President Nicos Anastasiades raised eyebrows on Thursday after he issued a statement amid a political firestorm in his own Disy party, calling on members to leave aside “personal grudges” ...

Opposition parties gave a lukewarm response on Tuesday to President Nikos Christodoulides’ presentation of government goals for 2024 made a day earlier. “Certainly the president and the government will be judged ...

Disy has selected 90 per cent of its candidates in the upcoming elections for local government and MEPs, party leader Annita Demetriou said on Sunday. “We should not be afraid of ...

Disy on Wednesday went on the defensive after a controversial but largely unsurprising report by the auditor general on spending during last year’s presidential election. The party denied it ...

By Elias Hazou and Tom Cleaver The 2024 state budget looks set to pass the house on Wednesday after Annita Demetriou, leader of the House’s largest party Disy, threw her ...

House President Annita Demetriou on Tuesday implored the European Union not to abolish member states’ veto power in the bloc’s collective decision-making process. “The decision-making process by unanimity, as ...

Disy on Thursday slammed the government’s decision not to include provisions for the creation of a National Cancer Institute in the forthcoming budget for the health ministry. “The freezing ...