Greek Cypriot National socialist EDEK party leader Marinos Sizopoulos was left with another blow to his party on Tuesday as yet another party member resigned, bringing the tally up to three since Sunday\u2019s parliamentary elections.
\nPaphos candidate Andreas Petrides, who failed to get a seat expressed his thanks to his supporters both from within the party and the public but said he had been feeling like an outsider in EDEK due to several practices the party had exercised.
\nHe cited \u201cfor instance, vengeful behaviour from the previous leadership, particularly during the sensitive election period, which seriously undermined our political discourse.\u201d
\nThe two had cited the low percentage of votes their party received in the elections.
\nEDEK\u2019s loss of two seats in parliament was attributed to the leadership by outgoing Limassol MP Nicos Nicolaides who issued his own condemning statement.
\nThe party suffered \u201cits greatest ever loss in elections since its founding\u201d he said and it was clear people were not happy with the \u201cnew EDEK\u201d they\u2019ve been seeing as of late.
\n\u201cInstead of acting as a leader should, with courage and humility, admit his enormous responsibilities, EDEK\u2019s chairman is trying, like a student caught being naughty to blame others,\u201d Nicolaides said.<\/p>\n
The outgoing MP put the loss down to a series of mistakes such as EDEK\u2019s rejectionist stance on the Cyprus problem and attempts to focus on how it is named rather than the content, rejecting anything with the term \u2018bi-zonal, bi-communal federation\u2019.
\nAdditionally, Sizopoulos\u2019 handling of the national council minutes, his clash with European and international socialist groups and association with extreme socialist parties, pushed people away from the party, Nicolaides charged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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