MARIOS GAROYIAN SURVIVES MINI CRISIS

Gibrahayer
07/12/09
Nicosia – Cyprus

Offsite and other combined sources – Cyprus Parliament Speaker and
leader of the centrist DIKO party Marios Garoyian survived an internal
crisis that has been dragging on for the last few weeks. Garoyian
expressed his satisfaction yesterday by saying that "It was a crisis,
and it does not help anyone by hiding it under the carpet". Answering
questions to journalists whether assurances were given by DIKO
officials that they will abide to DIKO Central Executive decisions,
Garoyian said that it was agreed that everything said in the last few
days "with the way they were expressed and how they were expressed
are behind us".

Garoyian had been receiving internal criticism by a group of party
officials, predominantly on decisions and practices related to the
coalition with communist AKEL and on the prospects of the solution
to the Cyprus problem.