By Lysandros Lysandrou*
During his first prime ministership (1955 – 1963) of Greece, Konstantinos Karamanlis (1907 – 1998) boasted in parliament that Greece was prospering. The then leader of the official opposition George Papandreou (1888 – 1968) aptly retorted: “The numbers indeed prosper, whereas the people suffer.”
The witty comment of Papandreou, the then grand old man of Greek politics, seems to be the case generally in all states and all times, and certainly particularly to present day Cyprus.
