Billboard campaign fails to ignite pupil’s election bid

A SCHOOL pupil took his election campaign a little too seriously after advertising himself on a main road billboard.

Ambitious Pascal School pupil Alexandros Papadopoulos decided to get his name into the open by splashing out on an advert which he placed on a billboard just shy of the Lakatamia area in Nicosia.

Despite his overzealous ploy to whip up the most votes and become chairman of the student faculty, he lost.

Teachers were scrambling on the day his adverts went up to get them down, but a photographer managed to snap one of the billboards and the picture appeared the next day on the front page of Alithia newspaper.

Going under the headline ‘Public elections in schools’, the daily newspaper stated, “What are these days we’re living in when a private school pupil campaigning in the school elections follows in the footsteps of politicians and attempts to win the votes of his fellow pupils by advertising publicly?”

One fellow pupil from the school yesterday told the Cyprus Mail, “We couldn’t believe it when we found out. The whole school was talking about it. It’s one thing to be ambitious but this is taking it a little too far. What surprises me is how his parents agreed to this?”
A two-week posting on a single billboard in the city costs about £300.

The Cyprus Mail is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Cyprus. It was established in 1945 and today, with its popular and widely-read website, the Cyprus Mail is among the most trusted news sites in Cyprus. The newspaper is not affiliated with any political parties and has always striven to maintain its independence. Over the past 70-plus years, the Cyprus Mail, with a small dedicated team, has covered momentous events in Cyprus’ modern history, chronicling the last gasps of British colonial rule, Cyprus’ truncated independence, the coup and Turkish invasion, and the decades of negotiations to stitch the divided island back together, plus a myriad of scandals, murders, and human interests stories that capture the island and its -people. Observers describe it as politically conservative.