“Mr. Odysseas Michaelides continues to lie. Today he claimed that I allegedly pressured the then Minister of Energy to award the project to specific subcontractors,” notes AKEL Secretary-General Stefanos Stefanou in a statement, even calling on “Mr. Papanastasiou to testify” as to whether he ever called him or pressured him “to award the project to a specific subcontractor, when the decision to continue the project with those specific subcontractors was the government’s.”
Mr. Stefanou notes that “exactly what was said in Parliament is recorded in the minutes” and adds that “if Mr. Michaelides continues with the lies,” he will request “that the confidential minutes be made public so we can see what was said.” “It is then that it will be fully revealed that, for a few votes and to satisfy his own belief that he is the only incorruptible one, Mr. Odysseas Michaelides is ready to slander people and destroy lives,” he added.
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For the record, “I would like to remind you that three days before this specific meeting of the Energy Committee, I described Vasilikos as ‘a major scandal’ and that I personally sent a letter requesting an investigation into the Vasilikos scandal by the Anti-Corruption Authority. We may not all agree on everything, but that does not mean we should resort to cannibalism. If some choose populism and toxicity, they will find us standing against them. When it comes to issues of moral integrity, our response is: zero tolerance,” he concludes.
