The Progressive Party of Working People (Greek: Ανορθωτικό Κόμμα Εργαζόμενου Λαού, Anorthotikó Kómma Ergazómenou Laoú, AKEL; Turkish: Emekçi Halkın İlerici Partisi) is a communist party in Cyprus. It supports an independent, demilitarized and non-aligned Cyprus, and a federal solution of the internal aspect of the Cyprus problem. It places particular emphasis on rapprochement with the Turkish Cypriots. It supported entry into the European Union with certain reservations. AKEL also supported the Annan Plan in 2004, but at the end they decided for a negative response, since they did not have time to formulate response to the plan. AKEL has successfully put into practise several socialist measures to support economic welfare of Cypriots during the late-2000s financial crisis such as increasing low pensions by 30% and strengthening the welfare benefits given to university students to €12 million per year. Generally, €1.2 billion were given as welfare benefits during the first three years of AKEL in power, with various improvements made in social welfare provision.
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