Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou is, it seems, set to take up a teaching post. In a letter to the Educational Service Commission, she has accepted an appointment to secondary education starting this September. Why did she do so? Because no one knows what will happen after the July cabinet reshuffle.
If she survives the reshuffle—something rather unlikely following the wildfires and the foot-and-mouth outbreak—she could easily decline the appointment and be permanently removed from the list of eligible candidates.
If she is reshuffled out, however, she will be in the classroom from September, teaching Homer and Byzantine history at a state school—either in Larnaca, should she wish to return to her home base, or in Nicosia.