AKEL weighs its options on the House Speaker

AKEL’s Central Committee is meeting today at the party’s Ezekias Papaioannou headquarters in extended composition to decide its position on the House Speaker presidency, ahead of Thursday’s plenary vote. The Pancyprian Coordinating Committee of the Social Alliance, AKEL’s electoral partner, has been invited, along with AKEL MPs who do not sit on the committee. The format is not unprecedented but signals the weight the party attaches to the outcome.

Decisions at the wire...