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The discussion about regulating property purchases by third country nationals resumed at the House interior committee last week. The committee had embarked on the discussion of law proposals that would ...

Larnaca residents are reportedly being pressured to sell their homes to foreign property developers by being intimidated by “enforcers”, Akel MP Aristos Damianou alleged on Friday. Speaking to the Cyprus ...

Police said on Friday that investigative and testimonial material in criminal cases is lawfully passed to the parties involved, as they responded to a complaint from Akel General Secretary Stefanos ...

British Cypriot businessman John Christodoulou said on Thursday that “my mind is with Disy, but my heart is with Akel” as he kept open the possibility of standing in the 2028 ...

Akel’s central aim in the 2028 presidential election is “progressive change” delivered by a united effort of forces, secretary-general Stefanos Stefanou said on Wednesday. Speaking in Nicosia at the presentation ...

Akel asked House president Annita Demetriou on Monday to explain how a parliamentary hall came to host the launch of a cross-party group of MPs working with the Israel Allies ...

Akel general secretary Stefanos Stefanou has denied that the party made any approach to economist Tassos Yiasemides, saying he had only seen the KPMG partner in a photograph and would ...

The apparent inroads made by the broader Israel lobby into Cypriot political life erupted into a full-blown row between Akel and Disy on Thursday, after the launch of the Cyprus ...

Akel has accused Disy, Diko and Elam of turning the House into a lobby for Israel, after the three parties launched a parliamentary group with the Israel Allies Foundation. In ...

Former chief negotiator and 2023 presidential candidate, Andreas Mavroyiannis, said on Wednesday that he will announce no later than January whether he will run in the 2028 presidential election, and that he ...

Akel supports Saturday’s nationwide protest against high electricity prices, joining Direct Democracy, the Ecologists Movement and the Animal Party, the party said on Thursday. Organisers will gather at Eleftherias ...

Economist Tassos Yiasemides, a partner at KPMG Cyprus, is among the names discussed within Akel as a possible presidential candidate the party could back. Local media reported that Yiasemides’ name ...

Akel leader Stefanos Stefanou on Wednesday warned against allowing the Cyprus problem to fall into a state of deadlock, after he attended the day’s National Council meeting. “The situation ...

Akel has announced that it will withdraw from the Cyprus Forum, joining a growing list of figures who have done so, citing “hysterical right-wing rhetoric”, after the forum’s organisers ...

High prices, understandably, have been the main public issue in the last eight months. People are not happy when their standard of living is steadily falling because their disposable income ...

The government’s planned reforms to the pension system will ensure that it remains viable for “40 or 50 years”, Labour Minister Marinos Mousiouttas said on Wednesday, as he addressed members of ...

Former presidential candidate Andreas Mavroyiannis said on Friday that polls reaching him put him in first place for the 2028 presidential election, though he intends to wait until the end of ...

Akel called on Friday for the justice ministry to carry out proper studies and consult with local authorities before proceeding with its decision to locate the new central prisons in ...

The trial of former transport minister Marios Demetriades and nine other defendants in the golden passport case that was due to begin on Monday did not go ahead after prosecutors ...

Disy accused Akel of allowing ‘ideological entanglements’ to shape Cyprus foreign policy on Friday, after the party backed a protest against the visit of Israeli President Isaac Herzog to Nicosia. ...

An Elam member has been appointed to the board of directors of the youth organisation (Onek) for the first time, prompting criticism from Edon on Thursday over what it said ...

Akel secretary-general Stefanos Stefanou has set out the conditions that any candidate seeking the party’s backing in the 2028 presidential elections would have to meet, ruling out support for a ...

Disy and Akel on Friday called on the government to provide answers over recurring sea pollution concerns in Limassol, demanding greater transparency over laboratory findings and action to identify and ...

Akel MP Christos Christofides met with Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Wednesday and used the brief encounter to raise the Cyprus problem and the destruction of cultural heritage. ...