Koutsou to resign

By a Staff Reporter

NEW Horizons leader Nicos Koutsou, who got a disappointing 2.1 per cent share of the vote in last week’s presidential elections, confirmed yesterday that his resignation would be handed in at the party’s National Conference on March 16, suggesting members should hold a secret ballot for the vote.

Koutsou thanked the Executive Office for unanimously rejecting his resignation, but insisted it was a matter of political responsibility. Regarding his presidential campaign, he maintained that with little funding, the party had achieved many of its aims, but failed in the final score Koutsou’s candidacy received.

Asked about the Annan plan, Koutsou said the party’s stance, as rejectionist, remained the same, highlighting that the way the plan had been handled had now led to a new plan even worse than the original.

Koutsou scored almost one per cent less than his party achieved in the last parliamentary elections, even though he was the only mainstream candidate openly to reject the Annan plan.

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