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Bus company employees are on a 24-hour strike across the island

by abdul
June 13, 2020
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Bus company employees said on Saturday they would go on a 24-hour strike on Wednesday across the island, except Nicosia, in protest over the loss of transport contracts.

A lockdown of public transport has not been ruled out.

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According to Haris Therapies, representative of the coordinating committee of Limassol’s Emel, Larnaca’s Zenon, Paphos’ Osypa, Famagusta bus operator Osea, and Intercity buses, they will go on strike from 5 am on Wednesday for 24 hours.

“No route will be carried out that day, or school buses,” he said.


Therapies said they chose Wednesday to strike to give the transport ministry some time to reconsider their decision to issue public transport contracts to a new consortium.

The five bus companies, along with Nicosia’s Osel, had thus far held the public transport concessions. Still, most of them were lost to MLKP consortium, comprising Malta Lines and Kapnos Airport Shuttle Services.

The current contracts for the 2010-2020 period are due to expire on July 4. The next ten-year concessions will be valid from July 2020 to July 2030.

The consortium was initially awarded four contracts to operate public transport in Nicosia, Larnaca, Famagusta, and the intercity routes for the period 2020 to 2030, but the current holders of these services challenged the validity of the competition, each with court procedures.

The court ruled in favor of MLKP for Larnaca and Nicosia, with the company announcing that it will be assuming operations of these bus routes as of July 5.

The House transport committee discussed the issue on Friday behind closed doors since court and tender bid procedures are still pending.

Bus drivers from these five companies held two separate protests in Nicosia on Friday, one outside the Presidential Palace and the other one at the Philoxenia conference center, which is temporarily housing parliament sessions.

Protesters said on Thursday that based on court decisions Osea and Intercity should take the contracts for the district of Famagusta and intercity routes respectively.

At the same time, the MLKP’s bid was considered invalid. They called on the government to accept the court decision.

In the case of Larnaca, Zenon had argued that MLKP had prepared and submitted the required business plan for the transfer and implementation of the contract on its own and not via an experienced auditing firm and an independent approved auditor, as per the terms of the tender, so the whole procedure ought to be considered void.

Therapies expressed optimism that MPs would back them. He referred to what was going to be a simple briefing of the House committee on Thursday, which turned into a cross-examination.

At the same time, the auditor-general and a representative of the attorney general’s office were hastily invited to appear before the committee.

“For the first time, the deputies carried out a real parliamentary audit after numerous questions were asked and demanded explanations about what exactly is happening with public transport,” he said.

“We believe that many of the MPs have realized what exactly is happening, but the bus companies will not back down on their demands,”

Unless there is no change on the issue of public transport and the transport ministry of transport insists on its positions, he said, “then a general lockdown is not ruled out, with Cyprus left with no buses.”

He said that everyone must finally realize that they cannot toy with the hundreds of public transport workers.

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