Our View: Far right Cyprus party more likely to be part of political system than threat to it

Akel’s reaction to the distribution of the House committee chairs, which was completed on Friday, defied belief. It sparked an exchange of terse announcements with Disy, which accused Akel of undermining the effort to achieve consensus and opting for “toxicity, intense confrontation and conspiracy-spinning.”

This was in response to an outburst by Akel’s parliamentary spokesman Giorgos Loucaides, who claimed that his party’s goodwill and desire to achieve consensus on the distribution of the...