The presence of the president of ELAM within the Metropolis of Tamasos on the day of the switch and counting of the cash that was within the protected of the Abvakum Monastery lit the match that was searching for the political scene to catch hearth DISY, AKEL, DIKO, EDEK, DIPA and Environmentalists are asking from on Tuesday explanations from Christos Christou, with the Left occasion even registering a problem in two Committees of the Home of Representatives.
By their interventions, the events primarily try to provide a task to ELAM in relation to the assault on the Monastery, leaving clear insinuations.
The president of ELAM, by means of his numerous televised interventions, gave his personal rationalization for his presence within the Diocese of Tamasos, as an enthronement commissioner appointed by Metropolitan Isaias, and attacked AKEL for its angle in direction of the Church.
In fact, the scale that the difficulty takes on the political scene aren’t unrelated to the elections of the approaching June. The dynamics that appear to be recorded by the far-right occasion in Cyprus is a provided that the political scene is going through. The remainder of the events have up to now appeared unable to handle the state of affairs and spotlight what the acrodexia is accused of. The scandal beneath investigation and any eventual involvement in the entire historical past of the president of ELAM, supplied the grip they had been searching for to pay money for.
ELAM, then again, is evident that all through historical past it seeks to imagine the function of defender of non secular values, in an effort to defend itself and fulfill a particular viewers.
On the identical time, inside this context, the wording and wording of the bulletins of the events DISY, DIKO, DIPA, which on the one hand blast ELAM, however then again are fairly cautious of their positions, are worthy of remark. AKEL and Environmentalists come out extra powerfully highlighting the dimension of corruption and the industrial exploitation of individuals. Pindarou, for its half, till yesterday, stored radio silence on the matter.
“I used to be under no circumstances within the Abvakum Monastery. I used to be within the Metropolis throughout the apologetic technique of the monks. My presence on the website was as a witness in addition to an observer. I’ve no drawback testifying to what I witnessed,” the president of ELAM informed OMEGA yesterday and accused AKEL of being the occasion that demanded the abolition of non secular texts from colleges and defends the works of the artist Gabriel once they offend the Church, it was the response of Stefanos Stefanos to Christos Christos from the identical present. AKEL additionally introduced yesterday the registration of a matter with the Authorized Committee relating to the manipulations by the Police.
“What we’re sadly witnessing in relation to the Holy Monastery of St. Avvakum requires the fast and in-depth investigation of all points, together with the involvement of the president of ELAM. That is what the principles of equality and equality impose”, was the place of the DISY.
The president of DIKO Nikolas Papadopoulos made a powerful intervention yesterday, noting that “even when sure monks have dedicated prison offences, which ought to be investigated by the competent authorities, this doesn’t imply that your entire Church is suspect and topic to prosecution, as they wish to be introduced by some”. Then the president of DIKO raised a sequence of political questions in regards to the presence of Christos Christos and the connection of ELAM with the hooded males.
EDEK, for its half, requests the intervention of the Legal professional Basic and the lifting of the parliamentary immunity of Christos Christos. “The stormy revelations of the case of the Monastery of Saint Avvakum and the involvement of the President of ELAM and the previous Chief of Police, power the choice for drastic actions on the a part of the state”, he notes.
DIPA – Cooperation, for its half, expresses the assumption that the involvement of politicians within the affairs of the Church, in addition to the opposite method round, is dangerous. “Any additional growth of the case ought to bear in mind the clear separation of State and Church, as established within the Structure and Establishments of our Republic.”
The Environmentalists, of their announcement yesterday, name on the Parliament to research whether or not the MP's involvement on this case is according to the MPs' code of conduct.