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I had no clue how awesome Cyprus is! Take a look at these posts by the Cyprus Mail:

Perdikis calls for public vote on Lisbon Treaty

GREEN party deputy George Perdikis provoked general mayhem at Parliament on Thursday, when he announced his intentions to propose a public referendum for the Lisbon Treaty.

During a conference between the party leaders and representatives this week, Perdikis announced his plans to make the proposal at next Thursday’s Plenum meeting – the date set for discussing and voting for or against the Treaty’s ratification.

His plans were denounced by all other parties, including AKEL who recently announced they would vote against the Treaty.

Lunacy has taken over the country

LUNACY has been scaling unprecedented heights in the People’s Republic lately and I am not just talking about the lawless city-state of Paphos, which will hopefully be granted independence when we finally agree with our Turkish Cypriot brothers how many states the virgin birth would produce.

As with everything else on the sunshine isle, there is no measure in our madness, which is always taken to its logical (or should I say illogical) extreme as if this is a national duty and we would be letting our Republic down if we exercised some restraint or showed a hint of self doubt. [...]

ANOTHER form of lunacy – the type that assumes that the entire population of Kyproulla has undergone a lobotomy – was showcased by our ruling communist party AKEL in association with comrade presidente Christofias.
Earlier in the week, the central committee of the party met in the presence of the AKEL leader and presidente to decide what position to take regarding the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty. When it was time for the comrades to vote, the presidente who, a few days earlier had assured the European Council that Kyproulla would ratify the treaty, left the meeting and the Central Committee unanimously decided to vote against it at the legislature next Thursday.

Never before in the history of communist totalitarianism had an entire Central Committee gone in the completely opposite direction of its leader. Was this a coup or a revolution? No it was just a bit of poor-taste political theatre of the ‘vote a soft no so we can cement the yes’ type, at which our presidente thinks he is very good.

The message was that AKEL and its leader were against the Treaty, but Christofias would honour his election promise to grudgingly support it. In other words, he is against it but as presidente he supports it.

Parliamentarians provoke general mayhem and lunacy is scaling unprecedented heights

... and this is nothing compared to what goes on in Malta!

Sobering bottom line: The vote in the Cyprus parliament on Lisbon will be July 3rd, and there appears to be little chance that the Treaty will be voted down.