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Phedonas Phedonos was re-elected as Paphos mayor on Sunday, seeing off a challenge from Diko-backed Evros Loizides. Phedonos won just over 60 per cent of the vote on a high turnout ...

The citizens have spoken and their verdict is fully respected, President Nikos Christodoulides said in his remarks on Sunday evening at the Presidential Palace referring to the results of the ...

Incumbent Nicosia mayor Constantinos Yiorkadjis was elected as the capital’s district governor on Sunday. Thanking the public and his supporters, he underlined that “local authority reform will not be ...

Larnaca sewage board director Angelos Hadjicharalambous has been elected as Larnaca district governor in a landslide victory. He won almost two thirds of the vote, beating outgoing Aradippou mayor Evangelos ...

Former Transport Minister Yiannis Karousos was elected as Famagusta’s district governor on Sunday night. Karousos won 55 per cent of the vote, almost twice as much as his nearest challenger ...

With 90 per cent of the vote counted, Yiannis Armeftis was announced as Limassol mayor on Sunday. He beat his main rival Nicos Nicolaides, who has held the post since 2016. In ...

Incumbent Famagusta mayor in exile Simos Ioannou won a second term in office on Sunday, winning just shy of 40 per cent of the vote. His nearest challenger Andreas Vrahimis won 30 ...

Incumbent Larnaca mayor Andreas Vyras was re-elected in a landslide victory on Sunday, winning around two thirds of votes cast in the town. With just shy of 60 per cent of ...

Joseph Violaris was elected as Kyrenia’s mayor in exile on Sunday night, beating his opponent Odysseas Patsalides to win the mayoral seat. Violaris will replace the retiring Rita Elissaiou ...

Charalambos Prountzos was mayor-elect of Nicosia on Sunday, garnering almost three times as many votes as his main rival Nicos Tornaritis. By 8:30pm, Tornaritis said he had called Prountzos to ...

With the 50th anniversary of the 1974 Turkish invasion fast approaching, a poignant new exhibition at the Cyprus Folk Art Museum in Nicosia takes visitors on a journey through some of ...

An exit poll by Alpha showed Charalambos Prountzos as the popular candidate for Nicosia mayor, where he gathered up to 56 per cent of supporters. This left his main rival Nicos ...

The first exit polls on Sunday showed 24-year-old independent MEP candidate Fidias Panayiotou landing himself the third spot in the results and winning a seat in European Parliament. There are ...

Head of the disabilities association (Opak) Dimitris Lambrianides slammed on Sunday the lack of access for wheelchair users, as he was met with steps instead of a ramp. “They had ...

While Cyprus goes to the polls on Sunday to vote in local and European parliament elections on Sunday, the European Union’s 26 other member states have been simultaneously holding European ...

Independent MP Andreas Themistocleous on Sunday caused a fracas when he went to vote in his Limassol constituency as he refused to submit one of his ballot papers. Themistocleous received ...

As of 3pm, 38.6 per cent of the total registered voters, totalling 269,727 people, have cast their votes for the European elections, chief returning officer Elikkos Elia. Compared to the turnout at ...

Voting started at 7am across Cyprus on Sunday, with 698,896 registered voters eligible for the election of six MEPs and local authority posts. Chief returning officer Elikkos Elia confirmed the timely ...

Voters in 21 EU countries including France and Germany will conclude a four-day election for the European Parliament on Sunday, which is expected to shift the assembly to the right and ...

Police are looking into an incident involving the tearing of ballot papers by a 58-year-old man in the Nicosia district, as confirmed by police spokesperson Christos Andreou during the morning ...

Three buses departed from towns in the north to take Turkish Cypriots to the Republic to vote in the European parliament elections on Sunday morning. The buses departed at 9am ...

Polls closed at 6pm as Cyprus cast votes for local and European elections Exit polls suggest Disy largest party in European elections, with influencer Fidias also expected to win seat ...

Turkish Cypriot participation in Sunday’s European parliament elections will play a critical role in who will get elected to fill the six seats allocated to Cyprus although the community ...

The met office on Saturday evening issued a yellow weather warning for storms on Sunday. The warning will be in place between 11am and 6pm, with the met office forecasting “...