*Katerina Zorpasenior Communication Consultant at the Renow
The pre -election transformations are timeless and will not disappear. Most of them politicians treat voters as short -lived goldfish and have no difficulty moving from one point to another, believing that few would remember where they were standing and what they had been saying shortly before.
In the battle of the vote they sacrifice their credibility and seriousness, with the illusion that in this way they will achieve their electoral or political goals.
Such transformations can give temporary political benefits. But they never help over time. Especially in our time, where politicians do not only have to deal with their political opponents and journalists who could refer to their archive at any time and to re -recover earlier statements and approaches and expose them to their conversion.
The internet remembers and avenges. Each social media user can at any time serve as a controller, as a critical opinion transmitter, as a political opponent, and recover with a rough research of a few minutes older statements, news, photos and videos highlighting the inconsistency of reasons and works. One wonders about the ease with which people who traveled to the other tens of kilometers in the political arena, believe that they will win something, saying and doing something different from what they said yesterday.
The decision of Kostas Gavriilides, a former president of Accept - LGBTKI Cyprus to withdraw his interest in a position on the DISY ballot in the Nicosia constituency was interpreted by political reporters as a result of above pressure and he did not attempt it.
According to some information, the DISY leadership wanted to avoid at all costs to set up ballot for the selection of party candidates in Nicosia. There is also a pressure from a particular candidate who was afraid that they would have been in the intra -party electoral process. In the end, the withdrawal of Gavriilides candidacy was considered appropriate. A development that justifiably caused discussions and various associations about the preceding backdrop.
Mr Gavriilides' candidacy, who wanted to send messages of respect for diversity, human rights and liberal beliefs, came into conflict with the effort of DISY leadership to address the Conservative Right in a desperate attempt to stop them. And Mr. Gavriilides may have received congratulations of Annita Dimitriou's close associates "for his responsible attitude", but the internet remembered:
The way Averof Neophytou attempted to exclude Annita Dimitriou from the ballot paper to impose Giannakis Giannakis' nomination on the Larnaca constituency in 2016. The precursor of Prodromos Prodromos in his attempt to justify his decision to justify his decision to retire. Elections and not beauty. " The fact that Annita Dimitriou took over the presidency of DISY gave a completely different mark for the direction in which she wanted to lead the lineup. A DISY open to diversity, truly liberal and open -minded. The presence of DISY President in previous years (not this year) in the course of pride. Her statements in favor of diversity. "In a country where we all have equal obligations, it is all needed to have the same rights," he said after meeting with representatives of LGBTKI+ community with Opportunity of International Pride Day. The fact that under its capacity as Speaker of the House, under its auspices, an event for the rights of trans and internet people.
DISY's and leadership's attempt to abandon or round up positions they have previously supported when they built the profile of a modern liberal party, open to society with progressive views, is more than distinct. ELAM's galloping, combined with what is happening in the rest of Europe with the rise of the far -right, led him to re -order his conservative past.
So far, this tactic does not seem to attribute in the sense that ELAM's democratic gallop continues. After all, the authentic expressors of any narrative are always more attractive. But even if DISY manages to some extent to some extent to some extent leaks to ELAM, Annita Dimitriou herself seriously injures the image she built. DISY is very difficult to convince him that he means other than what he was saying yesterday, when there is a picture and sound that deny him. In addition, DISY has been housing different views over time. He found the ways to successfully balance between the beliefs of the most progressive urban right and the most conservative popular right.
Today the leadership of the party seems to have been difficult to comply with this golden balance that previous leaders had achieved. And this can only be a major disadvantage in the course of DISY, not just to the next elections but to the future.
FIRST PUBLICATION GNORA CONFIDENTIAL - OCTOBER ISSUE
