After Christodoulides did not accept a compromise, Anastasiades said, he was left with no other choice but to back the then Disy president Averof Neophytou.

Source: https://cyprus-mail.com/2023/04/29/anastasiades-speaks-at-disy-conference-denies-trying-to-undermine-averof/

Neophytou also announced party leadership elections slated for March 11, which drew the ire of certain party members for it being a suffocating deadline that would not allow interested parties to actually prepare a proper campaign.

Source: https://cyprus-mail.com/2023/03/12/disy-leader-has-to-unite-a-divided-party/

That the presidential palace found the fertile ground to undermine Neophytou also reflects negatively on the leader, who had failed to unite the party around him despite being in charge for ten years.

Source: https://cyprus-mail.com/2023/02/22/our-view-averof-did-right-thing-bowing-out-of-disy-election/