{"id":2008,"date":"2022-06-26T13:06:36","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T10:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/penna.cydialogue.org\/?p=2008"},"modified":"2022-07-18T14:35:32","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T11:35:32","slug":"breathing-exercises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/penna.cydialogue.org\/breathing-exercises\/","title":{"rendered":"BREATHING EXERCISES"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u201cA first official \u2018yes\u2019 from DIKO to Nikos Christodoulides.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n As Eleni Kastani used to say in \u201cTi psyhi tha paradoseis mori?\u201d: Wow, I can\u2019t believe it! <\/strong>[Translator\u2019s note: reference to a popular Greek TV series<\/em>]<\/p>\n “We no longer have the luxury of not cooperating in a government formation and letting others make decisions that have led us in recent years to economic and national impasses<\/em>,” said Nikolas Papadopoulos last November \u2013 a few months before launching consultations to find a joint candidate with AKEL, whose government led us to economic impasses. Only to come six months later and support the Foreign Minister of the Government that has led us to national impasses.<\/p>\n Cheers and bottoms up. And we thought that it was EDEK that needed a doctor…<\/strong> [Translator\u2019s note: reference to the fact EDEK\u2019s founder Vassos Lyssarides was a doctor<\/em>]<\/p>\n How did Marcos ‘leave-me-alone-all-of-you-to-live-freely-without-an-identity-anymore’ Kyprianou put it years ago at DIKO\u2019s birthday bash? \u201cWe should carry on being a prudent force.<\/em>\u201d God help you.<\/p>\n Of course, this \u201cprudent force\u201d participated one way or another in almost all government formations, from 1977 onwards, to “control”, to “manage”, not to let others make decisions for us… You can see where this got us. <\/strong><\/p>\n Honest question: does the DIKO president come up with these sophistries himself or are they the result of some productive thinking by a communications team? To mention one, “by supporting Christodoulides, we are going beyond the ordinary”.<\/p>\n You are drowning \u2013 you cannot cope by yourself, half your party is already working for the popular candidate, while many others rally around the purebred anti-bizonal candidate, the centrist parties with which you used to cooperate in the past are disintegrating \u2013 you have in front of you a lifeline that helps you avoid drowning, give a decent, if nothing else, performance and not reveal your nakedness, and you\u2026 you are going beyond the ordinary to grab onto it! OK, this is indeed\u2026 princely!<\/p>\n \u201cAverof Neophytou was in Varosha not for the elections, but for the homeland<\/em>.\u201d Oh, give us a break, Demetriou<\/strong> [Translator’s note: DISY spokesman Demetris Demetriou<\/em>]. Look, there’s no shameful job. But perhaps some of them are? Of course, we saw the snake’s trail of populism \u2013 it’s not as if we were surprised when he [Averof<\/em>] said: \u201cRally, I am here for my homeland! Not for the elections!<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n From that dramatic crescendo of February 2021 on alphanews.live: \u201cDo you see my hand? It is as if it is your child\u2019s hand. And they are offering you millions to agree that they cut off a finger. There is no parent who will agree, no matter how many millions they offer, to cut off a finger from their child\u2019s hand. Nor will I ever agree for a piece of my homeland to be cut off and partitioned.\u201d AKEL is right then: \u201cVarosha is not some election decoration that lends itself to populism.\u201d But since when, in the house of the hanged man, do we talk about rope?<\/p>\n Nicos Anastasiades has remembered anew the \u201cumbilical cords\u201d with Greece \u2013 you will tell me it was a natural consequence, after the \u201cwe are the party of the Greeks” (!) comment by Harris Georgiades of the\u2026 \u201ccertain cultural ties\u201d, during the recent parliamentary elections. So, Anastasiades, who in 2015 was calling on the other side to also cut off, just like us \u2013 that\u2019s what he was saying! \u2013 \u201cthe umbilical cord with any other homeland\u201d \u2013 now remembered, on the occasion of the ferry connection, the umbilical cord that connects us with Greece. Because, when you are addressing the na\u00efve, the “umbilical cords” are not for all occasions, they are pulled out at the right moment, usually on the eve of elections. Like the two F-16s, which he decided to wear like a beautiful pair of tsarouchia <\/b>[Translator’s note: shoes traditionally worn by Greek fighters<\/em>], on the eve of the 2017 elections, even though he’d been in power since 2013 without previously deeming their arrival necessary.<\/b><\/p>\n Elefthera<\/strong>, 26.6.2022<\/strong><\/p>\n
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