The centre is in intensive care. Its leaders are asking for paracetamol

There is an old political habit in Cyprus. When voters slap them across the face, politicians look in the mirror and convince themselves they’ve been stroked on the cheek. That, more or less, is how the morning after the parliamentary elections dawned for the parties of the so-called centre ground. EDEK out of parliament. The Ecologists out of parliament. DIPA out of parliament. Only DIKO managed to survive. Not with any triumphant victory — but at least it avoided being dragged down into the...