This put it just a few proportion factors behind the established events, the first-placed conservative celebration DISY (24.8 p.c) and the communist AKEL (21.5 p.c). Political observers see the success as a protest by many dissatisfied voters.
Fidias Panagiotou himself sees it this fashion: “It is not cool to say that I am a politician, as a result of politicians have tarnished Cyprus,” he advised journalists on Sunday night following the election. His election must be a warning sign to the established events, which “have been arguing with one another for years regarding their very own pursuits and do not care in regards to the individuals.” He was referring to the nepotism that prevails in Nicosia amongst politicians and throughout the events, which many Cypriots criticize. His purpose now might be to develop into the perfect MEP that the Strasbourg Parliament has ever had.
No education
Fidias Panagiotou has no formal coaching and says he has no thought regarding politics; he additionally is aware of nothing in regards to the European Parliament, however he’ll now ask lots of questions, learn and study so much. To this point he has labored as a blogger and has a lot of followers, particularly in Cyprus, together with his – typically controversial – movies on Tiktok and YouTube. The truth that he may be persistent when he believes in one thing or needs to attain one thing is proven by a video through which he paperwork how he tried for months to satisfy entrepreneur and billionaire Elon Musk and provides him a hug – which he lastly succeeded in doing.
Even many political observers in Cyprus can see one thing constructive within the younger man’s success: in spite of everything, voters selected him and never, as in different international locations, right-wing extremist events. The correct-wing extremist Cypriot celebration ELAM elevated its share of the EU election by a superb two proportion factors to 11.2 p.c in comparison with 2019, however its hope of attracting much more protest voters and non-voters was not fulfilled. Folks discovered the cheerful blogger with out political content material extra electable.
