#election

Seven parties were set to enter parliament following Sunday’s parliamentary elections but the three biggest each lost in or around 3% over the previous legislative elections in 2016 in what is ...

Although ruling Disy emerged as winners on Sunday, many voters turned to smaller parties, including Elam, a right-wing party with links to Greece’s now outlawed Golden Dawn. Elam, an ...

Early exit polls indicate seven parties in the new House of Representatives emerging from Sunday’s polls, with the embattled ruling party Disy managing to hang on to first place, ...

Polling stations closed at 6pm on Sunday as Cypriots went out to vote in a new House of Representatives, in a process that was marked by abstention of many voters ...

A candidate for the hunters’ party is to be charged with assaulting a police officer at a polling station in Limassol, with police saying he had pushed and swore at ...

Changes and reforms are the answer and we have to take this into account when voting on Sunday By Achilleas Demetriades The House elections on Sunday have, I believe, particular ...

Police are ready to meet the demands of election day on Sunday by dispatching over 2,000 officers on the streets, according to the chief of police Stelios Papatheodorou. Speaking to the ...

The personal data commissioner on Friday said that her office has received a very small number of complaints from members of the public regarding personal data breaches from parliamentary candidates ...

Sparks continued flying on Thursday over the resignation of Volunteerism Commissioner Yiannis Yiannaki, the affair bleeding into the last stretch of the election campaign showmanship, as more details came to ...

The parliamentary elections at the end of this month will be a different affair this time, as the Covid pandemic has imposed many hindrances, primarily on campaigning, but also on ...

Corruption remained the number one problem for people whose majority also believe that an acceptable and viable solution of the Cyprus problem was out of reach, according to a survey ...

The sudden death of Green MP candidate and Limassol District Secretary Kyriacos Kourris from a heart attack late on Wednesday sparked an outpouring of grief among family, friends and members ...

RULING Disy is tipped to win the May 30 parliamentary election with Akel in second place and Diko in third, according to the latest survey, which was published on Wednesday evening. ...

President Nicos Anastasiades accused Diko on Wednesday of proposing nothing and rejecting everything, as he took a shot at the party over an online ad that backfired spectacularly, forcing them ...

Lack of trust in big parties and the dominance in everyone’s lives of the pandemic have led to a previously unseen apathy in the lead-up to the parliamentary election ...

A parliamentary candidate accused of rape committed over 10 years ago denied the crime Saturday and blamed it on political expediency. In a post on Facebook, Andreas Ttaouxis, a Larnaca municipal ...

The first Palestinian elections in 15 years appeared to be headed for a delay on Tuesday amid a dispute over voting in Israeli-annexed East Jerusalem and splits in President Mahmoud Abbas’...

The House of Representatives on Friday held its last plenary session before the parliamentary elections due to take place on May 30. The parliament decided unanimously to be dissolved beginning as ...

Far right party Elam and the Green party rise to fourth and fifth places respectively, according to the results of a survey conducted on behalf of private Ant1 television. The ...

A sceptical president invited Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday to form a new government, after another inconclusive election deepened political stalemate in Israel. The country’s longest-serving leader, in ...

“Local referendums necessary for the reform of local self-government” The credibility of the political system, politics and politicians, is once again being questioned by the citizens and Cyprus exposed to ...

Green MP candidate Michalis Paraskevas will remain in the ballot for the upcoming parliamentary elections despite him insulting a female minister on social media, the party has confirmed to the ...

The deadline to declare an interest to vote at polling stations abroad has been extended to April 23, the interior ministry said on Monday as it urged registered voters wishing to ...

Ugandans wearing face masks to brave the pandemic voted on Thursday as police and soldiers patrolled the streets of the capital during a presidential election pitting long-time leader Yoweri Museveni ...