National Council meeting: Akel urges attendance at five-party summit (Updated)
President Nicos Anastasiades invited the members of the National Council to escort him to the informal five-party summit to be convened by UN Secretary-General Antonio...
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Tales from the coffeeshop: Courageous defiance or plain teenage silliness?
THE TEENAGE boy who took down a Turkish flag from a primary school in Lysi last Sunday has caused great confusion in our society, which...
Long-running 56th seat saga awaits attorney-general’s decision
Attorney-general Costas Clerides said Wednesday he was studying a supreme court decision over a contested parliamentary seat so as to provide the state with advice...
UNSG ‘lost all sense of proportion’
Political parties bar ruling Disy and main opposition Akel were critical of the UN Secretary-General’s report on Tuesday with Solidarity’s Eleni Theocharous saying Antonio Guterres...
Anastasiades to seek AG’s advice on vacant MP seat
By George Psyllides President Nicos Anastasiades will seek the attorney-general’s advice on how to proceed with a bill passed by parliament giving a seat to...
After long battle vacant House seat goes back to Solidarity (Updated)
Parliament on Wednesday approved a bill that effectively hands a vacant seat to the Solidarity Movement, which lost it in April after the supreme court...
Solidarity tries to claim vacant seat in parliament
The Solidarity Movement on Friday submitted a proposal aimed at overcoming legal obstacles that have rendered a seat in parliament they consider theirs, vacant, and...
Parliament to convene over vacant seat
Parliament will convene next Wednesday in a bid to resolve the issue of a seat that the Supreme Court vacated because it had been filled through...
Party leaders wade into vacant seat row
MEP Eleni Theocharous on Tuesday appeared to shoot herself in the foot by implying that the seat she won in the European Parliament in 2014,...
Parties fail to agree over MP seat conundrum
There is still no direction on what should be done with the parliamentary seat vacated by former Solidarity MP Giorgos Papadopoulos, it emerged on Monday...
Party leaders fail to agree over contentious seat (Updated)
A meeting between party leaders and House President Demetris Syllouris on Friday yielded no results as to what might happen with the recently vacated seat...
Future of contested parliamentary seat uncertain
The future of the parliamentary seat which until a few days ago belonged to Giorgos Papadopoulos, as an MP for Solidarity Movement, appeared to be...
Supreme court rules Solidarity MP should lose his seat
The supreme court on Monday annulled the election of Solidarity MP Giorgos Papadopoulos to parliament, after he had essentially inherited his seat from party leader...
Centre parties continue their co-operation
Parties of the so-called centre said Friday they will continue their co-operation based on the policy on the Cyprus problem agreed before the presidential elections....
Diko: can the ‘party of strife’ weather its latest drama?
By Elias Hazou THE purge within Diko, with the ouster of over a dozen party members earlier this week, is expected to rage on as...
Greens and Solidarity decide on conscience vote
Two more parties decided late on Thursday night to let their supporters vote according to their conscience. In separate sessions of their respective top decision-making...
No support for either candidate from centre coalition (Updated)
The leaders of the so-called centre parties including Diko decided on Wednesday not to pledge support to either of the two candidates – incumbent Nicos...
Former Solidarity members turn on leader
The 300 members of Solidarity that have quit the party over leader Eleni Theocharous’ decision to back Nicolas Papadopoulos in the upcoming presidential election are...
Solidarity members defy leader to support Anastasiades
Over 130 members of Solidarity on Friday publicly expressed dissent with their party’s decision to back Diko leader Nicolas Papadopoulos for president in January’s election,...
No let-up as attacks on Eide intensify
By Jean Christou and Evie Andreou New calls went out on Monday from the hardline parties for the replacement of UN Special Adviser Espen Barth...