#parliamentary elections 2026

Gender Equality Commissioner Josie Christodoulou has expressed concern over the low level of female participation in candidate lists for the upcoming 2026 parliamentary elections, noting that women remain significantly underrepresented. In ...

The parliamentary elections later this month are offering a record number of choices – around 20 parties and a staggering 753 candidates competing for just 56 seats. Voters will be lost for choice. Seasoned ...

Exactly 753 people filed candidacies for the forthcoming parliamentary elections on Wednesday, as official registrations for those vying to win one of the 56 seats in the House took place. Those candidates ...

Eighty-nine-year-old Christakis Rotsides will be the oldest candidate at the forthcoming parliamentary elections, having registered as an independent candidate in the Limassol district on Wednesday. A retired musician, Rotsides said ...

Disy leader Annita Demetriou, who served as House president during the last parliament, filed her candidacy for the forthcoming parliamentary election at the top of her party’s ballot in ...

Independent candidate Marios Tenizis on Wednesday morning filed his candidacy for the parliamentary elections in the Nicosia district, demanding improvements to Gesy. “There is a major problem in the service ...

Social media influencer Fidias Panayiotou on Wednesday submitted his candidacy for the forthcoming parliamentary elections in the Nicosia district, at the top of the ballot of Direct Democracy Cyprus, the ...

Elam leader Christos Christou on Wednesday filed his candidacy at the top of his party’s ballot in the Nicosia district, with the party on course for a historic electoral ...

The interior ministry is examining “a lot of objections” to candidacies ahead of the May 24 parliamentary elections, chief returning officer Elikkos Elia said on Wednesday. Speaking after the candidates for ...

Andreas Themistocleous, the leader of the Democratic National Movement (DEK), on Wednesday filed his candidacy at the top of his party’s ballot in the Limassol district. “For DEK, today ...

Dipa leader Marios Garoyian on Wednesday morning accompanied his party’s candidates to register their candidacies in the Nicosia district, though after having spent 15 of the last 20 years as an ...

Edek leader Nikos Anastasiou on Wednesday presented his party’s candidates in the Nicosia district, hailing the diversity of their ballot. “Edek is proud because 25 per cent of our candidates ...

Former bar association chairman Christos Clerides on Wednesday morning filed his candidacy in the Nicosia district at the top of the ballot of Demal (Democratic Change), the party he founded ...

Ecologists’ Movement leader Stavros Papadouris on Wednesday morning filed his candidacy for the forthcoming parliamentary elections in Limassol, having joined candidates from his party in the Nicosia district earlier in ...

Betting is permitted on the upcoming parliamentary elections until May 16, the National Betting Authority (NBA) said on Tuesday. The elections will be held on May 24. Candidacies for MP will be ...

Hunters’ Movement parliamentary election candidate Stefanos Rousou Roskos on Monday expressed fury after a banner advertising his candidacy was defaced. He said the vandalism was “unacceptable”, and that such actions “...

Little change was recorded among the parties expected to be the largest in the next parliament in the latest poll published ahead of the forthcoming election, though among the smaller ...

Disy on Saturday unveiled its campaign battle bus for the forthcoming parliamentary election, with the bus and the party’s leader Annita Demetriou setting off on a tour of the ...

The Dipa (Democratic Alignment) party claimed on Thursday that they are being left out of opinion polls, skewing the surveys published ahead of the parliamentary elections. Loizos Constantinou, advisor to ...

Nikos Sykas’ bid to challenge his removal from Disy’s ballot has failed after the court of appeal rejected his case, ruling on Thursday that the matter no longer had ...

Elam leader Christos Christou defended the party’s decision to remove Kyriakos Savvas from its Paphos ballot, stating on Thursday that the move was based on issues of discipline rather ...

The candidacies for representatives of the Maronite, Armenian and Latin religious groups at the House, to be elected during the May 24 parliamentary elections, will be submitted on May 6, the chief ...

A candidate for Elam in Paphos was removed from the party’s ballot on Wednesday following what the party described as ongoing disciplinary offences, with the decision taken unanimously by ...

A month before the parliamentary elections and just a day before the House dissolves, Disy leader Annita Demetriou has urged people to exercise their right to vote by scrutinising the ...