AKEL gains control of the important Cypriot…
1936 CE to 1947 CE
After its success at the polls, AKEL supports strikes, protests the absence of a popularly elected legislature, and continually stresses Cypriot grievances incurred under the rigid regime of the post-1931 period.
Both communists and conservative groups advocate enosis, but for AKEL such advocacy
is an expediency aimed at broadening its appeal.
On other matters, communists and conservatives often clash, sometimes violently.
In January 1946, eighteen members of the communist-oriented Pan-Cyprian Federation of Labor (Pankypria Ergatiki Omospondia—PEO) are convicted of sedition by a colonial court and sentenced to varying prison terms.
Later in this year, a coalition of AKEL and PEO is victorious in the municipal elections, adding Nicosia to the list of cities having communist mayors.
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