Anastasiades’ reaction just political theatre for domestic consumption

In its editorial the Greek Cypriot daily Cyprus Mail published today criticized the Anastasides’ reaction that he would not attend Friday’s talks with President Mustafa Akinci.
According to the editorial Anastasiades’ decision not to attend the dinner in İstanbul on Monday night for participants, hosted by President Erdogan was understandable, but declining to meet the Special Advisor and staying away from the Cyprus talks on Friday was taking things too far.
Here is the editorial: “What did he hope to achieve and who was he punishing with these unhelpful decisions? Was he engaging in theatre in order to appease the Cyprus political parties and limit their criticism of him, now there are more hardliners in parliament? If he felt he had been fooled or deceived by Barth Eide, he should have raised his grievance privately at Thursday’s meeting and not turned it into an issue for domestic consumption. This was not a sensible and mature way to conduct himself. And the same could be said about his decision not to attend Friday’s meeting, which was expected to see important decisions about the intensification of the peace talks taken.
Was this an excuse to pull out of the talks or will he change his mind by next week, in which case he would be proving correct the theory that his overreaction was a bit of political theatre for domestic consumption? In a way, he has made things difficult for himself, because he would need to offer some kind of explanation if he decides to meet Barth Eide and Akinci next week.”