Progressive Party of Working People
Also known as AKEL
Cypriot political party
Key facts
- Abbreviation
- AKEL
- General secretary
- Stefanos Stefanou
- Founded
- KKK: 15 August 1926 , (99 years ago) ( 1926-08-15 ) , AKEL: 14 April 1941 , (85 years ago) ( 1941-04-14 )
- Headquarters
- Nicosia
- Newspaper
- Haravgi
- Student wing
- Progressive Student Movement [ el ]
- Youth wing
- EDON
- Women s wing
- POGO
- Labour wing
- PEO
- Ideology
- Communism Marxism–Leninism Cypriotism Federalism Soft Euroscepticism
- Political position
- Left-wing to far-left
- European affiliation
- Party of the European Left (observer)
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The Progressive Party of Working People (Greek: Ανορθωτικό Κόμμα Εργαζόμενου Λαού, ΑΚΕΛ, romanized: Anorthotikó Kómma Ergazómenou Laoú, AKEL; Turkish: Emekçi Halkın İlerici Partisi) is a communist party in Cyprus.
AKEL is one of the two major parties in Cyprus, and it supports a federal solution of the internal aspect of the Cyprus problem and it places particular emphasis on rapprochement with the Turkish Cypriots. It supported entry into the European Union with certain reservations. Initially supportive of the Annan Plan in 2004, the AKEL ultimately opposed the plan because the UN Security Council did not provide guarantees on post-reunification security.
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