#Presidential elections 2023

Akel-backed independent candidate Andreas Mavroyiannis on Sunday pulled ahead for second place in round two of presidential elections next week, as Nikos Christodoulides remained the favourite with 76 per cent of ...

Just over 72 per cent of people voted in the first round of presidential elections on Sunday, while close to 30 per cent of people abstained, a trend that has been steadily ...

A number of voters on Sunday reported they received text messages from presidential candidates calling on them to go vote. Data protection commissioner Irene Loizidou said there were different cases ...

Three minor incidents occurred in Limassol during voting on Sunday. In one case a voter in Plataniskia village arrived ten minutes early and tried to insist on getting in earlier ...

But the result was never in doubt The first-ever presidential elections in Cyprus in 1959 were by all accounts a rushed, tumultuous affair – though their legitimacy or result never questioned. They ...

Archbishop Makarios barely had any opposition when he stood for president – three times – and there was no second round until 1988 A record 14 candidates will be contesting today’s presidential elections, ...

Cops, choppers and drones were out in force on Sunday to monitor and ensure that voting in the presidential elections went smoothly. Around 2,000 officers were on duty, while helicopters and ...

All the heavy hitters have cast their ballots with the candidates united across the political spectrum in urging the public to get out and vote. Outgoing President Nicos Anastasiades, after ...

Inmates at the Nicosia central prisons voted on Sunday in the presidential elections. Deputy Director of the Prisons Department, Ioannis Kapnoullas told CNA that there were 300 prisoners registered to vote ...

A slippery voter may have committed a crime as he allegedly tried to take a photograph of his ballot paper on Sunday. The incident took place at a Paphos voting ...

Archbishop Georgios voted in Paphos shortly after polls reopened at 1pm on Sunday, singling out the Cyprus problem as his main concern. “With our eyes fixed on the issues of ...

There’s a lot of excitement ahead of the exit polls which are due immediately after voting ends at 6pm. They’re to be taken with a pinch of salt, ...

AFTER a year-long election campaign, we have mercifully reached the final stretch. After today, there will just be another six days left and on the seventh we will have a ...

Although faced with a record 14 candidates in today’s presidential election, the campaigns have been marred by the widely held belief that none of the hopefuls present any “real change”, ...

The election of the eighth president of the republic commences today, although it is highly unlikely a new head of state will be in place when the counting of the ...

There were no significant violations by TV stations of the legislation concerning the pre-election period, Neofytos Epaminondas, director of the Cyprus Radiotelevision Authority (CRTA) told the Cyprus News Agency (CNA). ...

Presidential candidates on Friday made their final statements to their supporters in the final run up to the first round of the 2023 presidential elections. In the morning, chief returning officer ...

Independent presidential candidate Achilleas Demetriades has donated the minibus he used for his election campaign to the non-governmental organisation which runs the dog shelter at Nicosia airport. The donation was ...

Caring for animals is not a secondary issue, presidential candidate Averof Neophytou said on Friday during a visit to a cat-feeding station in Aglandjia in Nicosia. The feeding station has ...

We talked to a selection of people in northern Nicosia, asking whether they’re following the upcoming presidential elections in the Republic of Cyprus.

The stage has been set for the upcoming presidential elections, Chief Returning Officer Costas Constantinou said on Friday during a press conference held at the Theofilos Georgiadis amphitheatre in Nicosia. ...

People who are isolating due to Covid-19 and are not strong enough to go and vote alone, can get someone to take them, the health ministry said on Friday. Those ...

Cops, choppers and drones will be out in force on Sunday to monitor and ensure that voting in the presidential elections goes smoothly. Two thousand police officers will be on ...

The proclamation ceremony of the new president will take place at the Tassos Papadopoulos – Eleftheria stadium, in Nicosia on the evening of Sunday February 5 or Sunday February 12 in the case ...