#parliamentary elections 2026

Weeks after the parliamentary elections, much of the media’s energy remains focused on political manoeuvring, opinion polls, and speculation about the 2028 presidential race. This obsession is driven by three ...

Alma MP Irene Charalambides said on Wednesday that the party’s parliamentary election result fell below expectations, revealing she had anticipated far greater support rather than the 5.8 per cent ultimately ...

By Sara Mariza Vryonidi What if I told you that changing society does not require convincing everyone? Not 90 per cent. Not even half. According to a 2018 study published in Science, ...

Parliament advanced plans on Tuesday to allocate around €640,000 in state funding and provide police escorts to the newly established parliamentary parties Alma and Direct Democracy. Under the current framework, each ...

Edek on Sunday refused to accept party leader Nikos Anastasiou’s resignation after he had attempted to leave the post in light of the party losing all its seats at ...

Direct Democracy Cyprus leader Fidias Panayiotou on Friday moved to justify his party’s decision to vote for Disy leader Annita Demetriou as House president, declaring that his party’s “...

Dipa leader, Marios Garoyian, said he submitted his resignation following the party’s poor performance in the parliamentary elections, but confirmed that it was not accepted by the politburo. Speaking ...

The possibility of Edek withdrawing from the government remains on the table, party leader Nikos Anastasiou said on Tuesday, indicating that a final decision will be taken at the party’...

There are still a number of communist parties active in the world, among them those in China and Cyprus, which, in their different ways kept the red flag flying after ...

Amid a kaleidoscope of candidates and new political formations, the traditional parties bucked the trend and held the line – more or less – in last Sunday’s legislative elections. Defying all ...

Negotiations over the allocation of parliamentary committee chairmanships intensified on Wednesday as parties manoeuvred for influence following Sunday’s parliamentary elections. At the centre of the discussions is the distribution ...

The Ecologists’ Movement on Wednesday said that there is now an “immediate need” to reduce its spending after losing all its seats at Sunday’s parliamentary election. Sunday’s election ...

The government will cooperate with all political parties where there is alignment on its policy agenda, Director of the president’s press office Victor Papadopoulos said on Tuesday, following the ...

Almost half the electorate will not be represented in the new parliament, having either abstained or voted for parties that failed to gain a seat in the legislature, an analyst ...

Tensions between Dipa and the Presidential Palace escalated on Tuesday after senior party figure Marinos Cleanthous accused members of President Nikos Christodoulides’ cadre of supporting rival parties during the parliamentary ...

The Ecologists’ Movement on Monday expressed disappointment over its Movement’s failure to retain parliamentary representation after 25 years. The movement said it had supported efforts to maintain a green voice ...

The Sikou Pano! (Get Up!) party said on Tuesday it was pushing ahead with a possible violation of the electoral process, saying it considered legal action over “serious issues” regarding ...

In the end, the fears that the parliamentary elections would produce a dysfunctional, fragmented legislature that would destabilise the country proved totally unfounded. Perhaps the scaremongering by the government, Disy ...

Alma acknowledged on Monday that its entry into parliament fell short of expectations, while insisting the result still marked a significant political breakthrough for the movement after securing four seats ...

Eleven women on Sunday secured seats in Cyprus’ new House of Representatives, marking the highest level of female parliamentary representation in the country’s history, though women still account for ...

Newly elected Maronite Cypriot non-voting representative in parliament Petros Nacouzi said that it is both a “great honour” and a “great responsibility” to represent the island’s Maronite community in ...

Social media influencer Fidias Panayiotou is to forego the seat in parliament which he won at Sunday’s election, instead choosing to serve out the remainder of his term as ...

While social media influencer Fidias Panayiotou’s Direct Democracy Cyprus achieved a respectable if unspectacular sixth place nationwide at Sunday’s parliamentary election, his party topped the polls in Meniko, ...

Social media influencer Fidias Panayiotou on Sunday night said he remains undecided over whether he will continue to sit as a member of the European Parliament or take a seat ...