Our View: Diko flexes its political muscle

It is astonishing that President Nikos Christodoulides postponed a cabinet meeting on Wednesday to make time to see the backer of his government and Diko chief Nicholas Papadopoulos. Papadopoulos had written to him on Tuesday night demanding a meeting, at the president’s “earliest convenience,” in order the discuss the possibility of a cabinet reshuffle as well as Diko’s proposed appointments to the boards of the semi-governmental organisations, the terms of which will expire by the end of the...