Colocassiades stripped of DIKO title

 

DIKO last night stripped Giorgos Colocassides of his office as party deputy leader.

By a majority vote, the party’s Executive Bureau voted to strike Colocassides from the position of deputy leader primarily on the grounds of insubordination.

Colocassides, who is likely to challenge the decision, will nevertheless retain his membership of DIKO as a party cadre.

He remains a member of DIKO pending the outcome of a court case.

Last month, the Supreme Court issued an interim order which temporarily reversed a prior decision by DIKO to expel Colocassides from the party altogether until a lawsuit filed by the deputy leader could be heard.

Colocassides was booted out of the party on June 7 by DIKO’s Executive Bureau on the grounds of insubordination after opposing party leader Marios Garoyian’s nomination as House Speaker.

 

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