Cyprus Editorial: Getting rid of dead wood

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Judging from the growing tension between the Cyprus government and the Central Bank Governor, perhaps it is time that President Nicos Anastasiades stops pussyfooting around and sacks the centralbanker in order to appoint a person of his choice and get the banking sector moving again, at a faster pace than it is today.
Regardless if Panicos Demetriades has done a good job or not ever since the blundering previous administration appointed him, there is a clear lack of communication with Anastasiades and his Cabinet at a critical time when about 70% of the island’s economic activity has been brought to its knees.
If, as the DISY-led ruling coalition claims, the centralbanker is no longer useful and needs to be removed, what, then, is the president waiting for? Surely, the cost of firing a contracted public servant is far less than the real damage to the economy by keeping him there and not talking on the same terms. Besides, having been thrown into the deep end by the most incompetent government this country has ever seen in the past 53 years, perhaps Demetriades might want to return to the calm of academia, where he was and probably still is greatly respected by his peers.
Seeing the slow pace of events in other public services, perhaps Anastasiades ought to clear out a lot more of the dead wood, such as in sectors dealing with energy, labour, telecoms and tourism. After all, we are still barely 75 days into his 5-year term, so he might as well sack many more chairmen and board members, or even high-ranking civil servants to ensure that the rest of his administration will return to a rapid path of recovery as soon as possible.