In late August 2026, former President Nicos Anastasiades delivered an address over the state-run Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation that fundamentally unsettled the country’s political landscape.
Ostensibly arranged as an elder statesman’s defence of his decade-long tenure, the broadcast followed the submission of a 20-page legal rebuttal to the Independent Anti-Corruption Authority, which had been reviewing allegations of systemic graft detailed in Makarios Drousiotis’ investigative volume, Mafia State .
In his submission,
