Filenews 13 November 2023 - by Dora Christodoulou
The long-awaited Pafos Cultural Foundation is now in limbo, initially announced by the Pafos Municipal Council and has been going from postponement to postponement for three years. Information from "F" indicates that the design has probably been definitively and silently overturned.
The Cultural Foundation, based on the initial decisions, would pick up the thread of culture from where "Pafos 2017" left off. Everything seemed to be taking its course after the meeting of the Pafos Municipal Council on 24 June 2021 that dealt with the issue and it was only expected that the first Board of Directors of the Pafos Foundation to be established would be appointed. However, the Pafos Municipal Council failed to complete the examination of the issue and take decisions, since part of it, citing the special conditions of the pandemic, succeeded in postponing the discussion and decision on the appointment of the members of the new body.
Now, although we are now at the end of 2023, things remain the same denominator of that June: No developments have occurred in the intervening period, the issue is not part of any meeting agenda, and the members of the City Council themselves express ignorance about what will happen with the issue, as well as the reasons for the delay. Lately, on the contrary, there have been increasing assessments and whispers within the Municipal Hall that the issue has been informally abandoned and that the chances of universal agreement on the practical issues of the institution's operation are minimal.
And all this, while the rapid deterioration of cultural affairs in Pafos, with the end of Pafos 2017, is universally admitted. The pressure from all sides to finally take practical measures to restore cultural flourishing in the city through the Pafos Cultural Foundation is currently proving to be a dead letter.
