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Political party in Cyprus

The Direct Democracy Cyprus (Greek: Άμεση Δημοκρατία Κύπρου, romanized: Ámesi Dimokratía Kýprou) is a political party in Cyprus by MEP Fidias Panayiotou.
The party was initially named Direct Democracy, but it was renamed to Direct Democracy Cyprus.^[1]

On October 20, 2025, Panayiotou announced the formation of a new political party, having a Direct Democracy ideology, via social media. As of October 2025, details about the party’s structure are limited, with the only confirmed information being that the party’s parliamentary candidates will be elected by the public through a mobile app.^[2]

The “Agorà” App (meaning “shop” or “marketplace” in modern Greek, also “place of public discussion” in ancient Greek) is the application used by the party supporters to vote on parliamentary issues. This working app ^[3] can be seen by everyone around the world, and in it the Cypriot citizens (by showing their police ID) have the right to vote and indicate to their representative what they want him to vote for. In this way, every parliamentary representative is transformed into a Trojan horse of direct democracy, within a parliamentary environment.^[4]
The ultimate goal of such representatives is to become the majority in parliaments and thus transform the widespread political regime of parliamentarism into (direct) democracy. This is the third attempt to establish direct democracy into a parliament via a similar “Trojan Horse” system, with the first one being IserveU[1]. This idea was also tried,^[5] under the name pirategov, in the Pirate Party of Greece from 19 Jun 2012 until 16 Dec 2012.^[6]