Our new flag, [1] moving us away from the two branches that wish to communicate equality between 82% and 18% [2] retaining the colors of the Republic of Cyprus (1960), thus emphasizing continuity, and [3] one stripe for each of the French revolution's motto, liberté, égalité, fraternité (liberty, equality, fraternity [brotherhood]), for all legal Cypriot citizens regardless of creed or first language.
I first considered the stripes to be vertical, as per the French flag, but I decided against it for two reasons: [1] it would be almost identical with the Irish flag, a divided country with a similar problem, thus unavoidably screaming 'division' [2] the parallel stripes seem a more logical transition from the current flag, as if each color simply flows to fill the nearest to it available stripe.
