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🧵Άκουσα την τηλεοπτική συζήτηση με τρείς ανεξάρτητους υποψήφιους προέδρους (Δημητριάδης, Κολοκασίδης, Ηλιάδης). Είτε συμφωνεί είτε διαφωνεί κανείς με τα όσα λέχθηκαν πρέπει να αναγνωρίσει ότι το επίπεδο της συζήτησης ήταν πολύ ψηλό και με ουσιαστικό περιεχόμενο,

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αντίθετα με τις φανφάρες και τους λαϊκισμούς των mainstream.
Ωστόσο είναι πρόδηλο ότι υπάρχει μια κοινή και διαχρονική αδυναμία σε όλους -ανεξάρτητους και εξαρτημένους- στο θέμα του Κυπριακού (και της εξωτερικής πολιτικής). Αυτή έχει να κάνει

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είτε με τις ιδεαλιστικές είτε με τις αδιέξοδες απόψεις (ένθεν κι ένθεν) που εκφράζονται για την από τούδε και στο εξής διαχείριση της κατάστασης. Επιπλέον, υπάρχει σοβαρό πρόβλημα στο να στοιχειοθετηθεί το πως οι όποιες θέσεις/απόψεις μπορούν να φέρουν αποτελέσματα.

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OK. It has to be said. As someone who has spent big chunks of her voluntary + professional life in the past 20 years trying to help a federal solution of the #cyprob I would love this headline to to be true. But I am afraid the opinion polls say something else. #Cyprus. 1/n
Polls suggest that the historically dominant UBP of the late Rauf Denktash - the party currently all bent on a two-state solution - will come first. 2/
But either way, it would be a mistake to judge the 23 January election as a vote about the #cyprob, for several reasons. First, there are far more pressing issues. 3/
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I have a really horrible feeling that the gravitational pull is towards annexation. So choice in 5 years’ time will not be 2 states v federal #cyprob solution but 2 states v formal annexation. New EU land border with Turkey anyone? How will the EU protect its TC-EU citizens then?
Am also somewhat horrified that quite a few Greek Cypriots don’t give a flying f**k about this scenario, which will inevitably see their “fellow brother compatriot Turkish Cypriots we have no problem with” locked up for protesting + generally thrown to the wolves. 2/
But I also think this is where EU will find its strategic interests diverging from the (Greek Cypriot) Rep of #Cyprus. Because who’s going to end up defending Greek Cypriots from this new hard land border? It isn’t going to be the Greek Cypriot National Guard, let’s face it. 3/
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