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Diko on Tuesday welcomed the introduction of a new applied learning stream in lyceums, while calling for parliamentary oversight to ensure its pilot implementation meets students’ needs. The new programme, ...

Political parties on Tuesday marked the 30th anniversary of the killings of Tassos Isaac and Solomos Solomou, paying tribute to the two men and renewing calls for justice and the ...

President Nikos Christodoulides has always traded in soundbites. Rational argument has not often featured in his public discourse, probably because he has realised that it is only soundbites that are ...

The new members of President Nikos Christodoulides’ cabinet will receive annual net salaries of almost €80,000 for ministerial positions, according to figures from the state’s general accounting office released on ...

The government will remain firmly on a centre right course following President Nikos Christodoulides’ partial cabinet reshuffle, deputy spokesman Victor Papadopoulos said on Wednesday. Papadopoulos said the government’s political ...

President Nikos Christodoulides is preparing the cabinet reshuffle, with changes expected to include both internal transfers and the appointment of new figures from the centre right, according to information emerging ...

Former Diko MP Nikos Kleanthous died on Tuesday at the age of 78. Born in Larnaca in 1948, he was one of Diko’s founding members in 1976 and was later appointed by ...

THE INHUMANITY the Paphos authorities have shown in the treatment of the British father, whose three-year-old son was killed, after falling out of a fourth-floor hotel window in Paphos last ...

President Nikos Christodoulides is expected to announce a cabinet reshuffle in the coming days, with Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou set to leave her post after accepting an appointment in public ...

It is astonishing that President Nikos Christodoulides postponed a cabinet meeting on Wednesday to make time to see the backer of his government and Diko chief Nicholas Papadopoulos. Papadopoulos had ...

President Nikos Christodoulides’ decision to postpone this week’s cabinet meeting by a day so as to hold a meeting with Diko leader Nicholas Papadopoulos on Wednesday “should not cause ...

As the new parliament is getting ready to convene its first plenum on Thursday, electing a new House president is proving tougher than anticipated, as parties are still tiptoeing around ...

Diko leader Nicholas Papadopoulos on Tuesday held his cards close to his chest over the prospect of him standing for House president when the new parliament convenes for the first ...

Diko leader Nicholas Papadopoulos met Disy leader Annita Demetriou on Tuesday, as discussions regarding who will support whom when parliament elects its president next week commenced. Papadopoulos confirmed that he ...

Diko leader Nicholas Papadopoulos on Monday said he will not “rule out any scenario” regarding the question of who will be elected as House president, with parliamentary arithmetic appearing to ...

Diko leader Nikolas Papadopoulos called for public participation and political unity on Sunday after casting his vote in Engomi, Papadopoulos voted at the 2nd Primary School of Engomi accompanied by ...

The building housing Diko’s headquarters was renamed ‘Spyros Kyprianou’ on Thursday as an “act of historic memory, respect and recognition of the founder and historical leader of the party”. ...

Diko president Nikolas Papadopoulos said on Wednesday his party’s first job in the new parliament to emerge from Sunday’s elections would be to table bills for the strengthening ...

Fresh polling published on Saturday points to a highly competitive parliamentary election, with Disy maintaining a narrow lead over Akel and a split House increasingly likely after the May 24 vote. ...

Diko leader Nicholas Papadopoulos on Wednesday morning filed his candidacy for the forthcoming parliamentary elections at the top of his party’s ballot in the Nicosia district. “Today, we stand ...

Diko has “no red lines” regarding the question of with whom the party may collaborate to nominate a House president after this month’s parliamentary election, its leader Nicholas Papadopoulos ...

Nearly one in three voters have yet to decide how they will vote in the upcoming parliamentary elections, according to the second Noverna poll conducted for Politis on Monday. The ...

Labour Minister Marinos Mousiouttas, and Diko MP Christos Orphanides, sharply criticised Diko party president Nicholas Papadopoulos on Monday for his recent statements against the government, describing them as tactical manoeuvres ...

Diko leader Nicholas Papadopoulos on Monday called on President Nikos Christodoulides to be decisive over whether or not he will perform a cabinet reshuffle, saying that if it is to ...