Former Diko MP Nikos Kleanthous died on Tuesday at the age of 78 .
Born in Larnaca in 1948, he was of Diko’s founding members in 1976 and was later appointed by Archbishop Makarios III’s restored government the following year to the committee investigating the circumstances surrounding the 1974 coup d’état.
He was elected to parliament in 1996, and became Diko’s deputy leader in 1998, before unsuccessfully standing to be
