page_title: Progressive Party of Working People
section_title: Youth
hierarchical_section_title: Progressive Party of Working People / Youth
caption_attribution_description: For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. ADN-ZB-Paschalis 1.3.1984-Zypern: Kongreß zyprischer Jugendorganisation - Unter der Losung "46 Jahre Kampf für Freiheit, Frieden und sozialen Fortschritt" fand am 24.-25.2.84 der 9. Kongreß der Vereinigten Demokratischen Jugendorganisation Zyperns (EDON) in Nikosia statt. Die 900 Delegierten sprachen sich für den verstärkten Kampf gegen die NATO-Hochrüstung und die gegen Zypern gerichtete Politik des Imperialismus . Die Grüsse der FDJ überbrachte der Sekretär des Zentralrates Hartmut König (2.v.l.)
context_page_description: The Progressive Party of Working People is a Marxist–Leninist, communist political party in Cyprus.
  AKEL is one of the two major parties in Cyprus, and it supports an independent, demilitarized, and non-aligned Cyprus, and a federal solution of the internal aspect of the Cyprus problem. 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.
  As a strong supporter of welfare benefits and nationalization, AKEL successfully put into practice several social measures to support the economic welfare of Cypriots during the late-2000s financial crisis, such as increasing low pensions by 30% and strengthening the welfare benefits given to university students to €12 million per year. Overall, €1.2 billion were spent on welfare benefits during the first three years that AKEL was in power, with various improvements made in social welfare provision. The party is now in opposition following the 2013 election.
context_section_description: The party's youth wing is the United Democratic Youth Organisation, which was founded in 1959.
caption: AKEL youth conference in 1984 in Nicosia
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