FORMER Interior Minister, Dinos Michaelides, has got his nemesis, DISY deputy Christos Pourgourides, out of a tight spot by announcing that his fledgling party, ADIK, will not be accepting an invitation to form an alliance with governing DISY for the May parliamentary elections.
Last week, suggestions that his party was about to ally itself with ADIK – the party Michaelides set up two years ago after Pourgourides’ persistent corruption charges forced him out of office — had the DISY deputy threatening to abandon the governing party.
Pourgourides insisted his objections to an alliance with Micharlides’ party were based not on personal differences but on his abhorrence of “political expediency”. Pourgourides said ADIK and DISY simply did not see eye to eye on basic issues, such as the Cyprus problem.
Michaelides insisted DISY and ADIK had common political common ground to spare. The ex-Minister suggested Pourgourides’ objections were based purely on personal animosity.
But, by yesterday, the whole issue had been resolved, not by the ex-Minister or the deputy but by the ADIK central committee, which on Sunday voted to turn down the DISY offer. ADIK reportedly feel they have enough support of their own to get them into parliament for the first time after the May elections.
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