The Democratic Party (Greek: Δημοκρατικό Κόμμα, Dimokratikó Kómma) or DIKO is a centrist political party in Cyprus founded in 1976 by Spyros Kyprianou. As stated in its founding declaration, the Democratic Party proposes the political philosophy of "social centrism", which constitutes "a total of attributes and values that offer in the state social cohesion, political prospect, improvement of terms of life and development of human culture, that should be shared between the entire population and not only between the privileged teams of the population". In June 2003, DIKO announced it was moving away from its traditional centre-right political positioning. The party has developed a strict and hardline stance on the Cyprus problem and strongly opposed the Annan plan in 2004. The party also su