Opposition Akel MP Irini Charalambidou has overtly spoken out towards the left-wing celebration’s attainable 2023 presidential election assist to the candidacy of former well being minister George Pamborides.
Charalambidou, who loudly made clear Pamborides shouldn’t be an possibility for the celebration, prompted the annoyance of each Akel chief Stefanos Stefanou and different top-ranking Akel members.
The outspoken MP’s opposition to the previous member of President Nicos Anastasiades’ administration and architect of the island’s basic well being system seems to have raised fairly a storm throughout the celebration’s management.
In public statements, Charalambidou twice stated that she can’t imagine how a right-winger may be the selection for the folks of the Left.
This was her response to an earlier assertion by Stefanou that the one time Akel had truly chosen a candidate of its personal rank was in 2008, that means ex president Demetris Christofias.
However what circles throughout the leftist celebration argue is that Akel could have supported right-wingers for the Presidency prior to now, however it was by no means from the ranks of ruling Disy celebration.
Nonetheless, Pamborides has distanced himself from Disy for fairly a while now.
Stefanou has publicly requested celebration members opposing choices of Akel’s hierarchy to decrease their voice – a transparent message to Charalambidou.
“Everybody must be affected person. Now we have procedures within the celebration that should be revered and this us legitimate for all…Now we have made this clear,” Stefanou additionally stated.