Political Life

Cyprus has lived in freedom only since 1960, following long centuries of foreign domination. The island’s geopolitical value has turned it into a target of regional and remote powers that succeeded one another as its masters. Some glimpses of political life emerged at the beginning of the British rule (1878-1960). However, the design of institutions [...]

The first organized political force on the island was the Communist Party of Cyprus - KKK . Its first nuclei appeared since 1922 and it officially held its founding congress in August 1926. In 1941, leaders of the outlawed (since 1931) KKK and some bourgeois notables founded the Progressive Party of Working People - AKEL. [...]