Daily Archives: September 6, 2019

AKEL was founded in April 1941 by cadres of the outlawed Cyprus Communist Party [Κομμουνιστικό Κόμμα Κύπρου – KKK] and bourgeois notable figures. Cyprus was under British colonial rule and conditions at the time featured a political vacuum because of state of emergency measures imposed after a popular uprising in October 1931. The new party drew [...]

DISY was founded in 1976 by Glafcos Clerides and cadres from his former Unified Party of the Nationalist Front and the Progressive Front, which collapsed following support by some of their officials to the coup against Makarios in summer 1974. The party faced exclusion and systematic denigration from the day of its inception, as pro-Makarios forces [...]