#Presidential elections 2023

Amid great fanfare and pledges of transparency and change, 2023 saw a new president elected. And though the ‘new broom’ promised to sweep clean, Nikos Christodoulides’ administration soon became clogged by ...

Waiting literally until the last minute to do so, President Nikos Christodoulides on Tuesday released his election campaign expenses, showing he had exceeded the spending limit by ostensibly just €19,000. By ...

Disillusioned by the election results and the failure to act on suggestions to root out corruption and find a viable solution to the Cyprus problem Last Sunday, the Greek Cypriot ...

Everything said on the campaign trail will be put into practice, as it constitutes a “contract with the Cypriot people,” president-elect Nikos Christodoulides said on Tuesday. He was addressing supporters ...

For the first time in Cyprus’ political history, the two biggest parties of the country have failed to get their preferred presidential candidate elected to power, marking the diminishing power ...

Footage from last night’s electoral victory, and the proclamation of Nikos Christodoulides as president.

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Monday called president-elect Nikos Christodoulides to congratulate him for his election. The initiative was undertaken by Tatar, a statement by Christodoulides’ campaign office specified. ...

Newly elected President Nikos Christodoulides will be invested by the House of Representatives, as stipulated by Article 42 of the Cypriot constitution, on February 28 at 11.30am. On that day, in front ...

The Cyprus problem, immigration and the economy are the main challenges for incoming president Nikos Christodoulides, the international press reported on Monday. News outlet Voice of America reported that Christodoulides ...

Foreign leaders and state officials on Monday continued sending congratulations to president-elect Nikos Christodoulides with French President Emmanuel Macron even doing so in Greek. “Dear Nikos Christodoulides, congratulations for your ...

By Andria Kades and Jonathan Shkurko A day after Nikos Christodoulides emerged as Cyprus’ elected president, the horse trading over cabinet members appeared to be in full swing. Christodoulides insists ...

Born and brought up in Paphos, president-elect Nikos Christodoulides was most successful in the village of his father – Choulou. And by-and-large he fared particularly well in the district of Paphos, ...

Nikos Christodoulides won Sunday’s run-off election to become the eighth president of the republic. He took 51.91 per cent of the vote, edging Andreas Mavroyiannis out by 15,000 votes. It was ...

The election on Sunday showed that in Nicosia the split was almost 50-50 between who should become the next president, with president-elect Nikos Christodoulides winning by a slight margin. Christodoulides ...

Foreign leaders and other officials congratulated president-elect Nikos Christodoulides on Sunday evening following his victory in the second round of the presidential elections. President of the European Commission Ursula von ...

Cyprus on Sunday voted Nikos Christodoulides as the eighth President of the Republic, as a declaration ceremony at Eleftheria Stadium rocked to cheers of his name, applause and loud music. ...

Disy leader Averof Neophytou said on Sunday night the party would be at the side of the new president as he congratulated Nikos Christodoulides for garnering the votes that give ...

Presidential hopeful Andreas Mavroyiannis conceded defeat on Sunday, an hour after the voting stations closed, thanking all his supporters “for the beautiful journey” they had embarked on. Though the difference ...

With 100 per cent of votes counted Nikos Christodoulides had a clear lead, echoing what exit polls had earlier suggested. Christodoulides secured 51.97 per cent of the vote while Andreas Mavroyiannis got 48.03 ...

Exit polls indicate Nikos Christodoulides will become the next president of Cyprus, giving him a clear lead over his rival Andreas Mavroyiannis. Christodoulides’ campaign team erupted into cheers once the ...

Almost 30 per cent of voters abstained in the runoff presidential election on Sunday, with a total of 405,086 people casting a vote. That figure represents 72.2 of those eligible to vote, a ...

By Andria Kades and Paul Lambis With the presidential elections dominating news broadcasts across Cyprus for the past few weeks it is not just those on the island that have ...

A police officer had to the perform the Heimlich manoeuvre on a man working at a voting station in Limassol on Sunday, after noticing he had started to choke while ...

At the age of 102, Argyri Achilleos is the oldest voter in Cyprus, the Cyprus News Agency said on Sunday after she voted in the Paphos district. A resident of Tala, ...