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AKEL’s Twofold Legacy

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This chapter contains first a brief overview of AKEL’s origins and development that highlight a blend of Marxism-Leninism ideology with social democratic/labourite political practice. It then examines in depth the way in which the party changed both ideologically and organizationally subsequent to the dissolution of the socialist bloc. The changes that AKEL introduced opened the way for the party to strive for executive office, as it responded to the two dimensions necessary for achieving democratic legitimacy: the subjective (the party’s own initiatives for change) and the objective (whether the other parties perceived the change).

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    The Cyprus Problem is an unresolved political conflict with two faces: an international side, which refers to the de facto division of the island after the 1974 Turkish invasion, and a bicommunal aspect, which refers to the island’s two main ethnicities. The roots of the problem lie during the British colonial period (1878–1960). For details about the Cyprus Problem, see Ker-Lindsay 2011; Mallinson 2010.

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Katsourides, Y. (2016). AKEL’s Twofold Legacy. In: Radical Left Parties in Government. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58841-8_4

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