Disy leader: our homeland deserves the best

Disy leader Annita Demetriou, who served as House president during the last parliament, filed her candidacy for the forthcoming parliamentary election at the top of her party’s ballot in the Larnaca district on Wednesday morning.

“Along with our Larnaca ballot, I am also putting forward my own candidacy. Larnaca and our homeland deserve the best,” she said.

The 40-year-old native of the Larnaca district village of Troulloi said that Disy has “the right candidates in every district”, before urging the public to get out and vote on May 24.

“People should go to the polls, choosing the best candidates so that we can move forward. People want simplicity, feasible solutions, and a response to the demands of their everyday lives. Disy has proven that it is always there,” she said.

A total of six of the 56 MPs elected will be from the Larnaca district.

Later in the day, she joined her party’s candidates in the Nicosia district, and invoked the party’s founder, late president Glafcos Clerides, in urging the public to vote for it.

“With seriousness and responsibility, as we learned to do in Disy, away from toxicity and populism, this is the party of Glafcos Clerides which is not afraid of responsibility, but assumes it. With realism, with hope, with optimism. We are moving forward responsibly,” she said.

She also said that “in a period of crisis and complex challenges, seriousness is required, a plan is required, clear positions are required”.

To this end, she said that her party “does not make easy promises” to the electorate, but that it instead has a “very strong” list of candidates “who have the knowledge, experience, and political consistency to come forward and work hard for the future of the country”.

Disy leader Annita Demetriou with the party candidates from Nicosia (Christos Theodorides)