#presidential election

Disy has moved to stress that its internal party rules will be followed after former party leader Averof Neophytou on Sunday announced that he plans to run for president in 2028, ...

Former Disy leader Averof Neophytou announced on Sunday that he will stand in the 2028 presidential election, citing the continued deadlock in the Cyprus problem following high-level contacts in New York. ...

A source close to former Disy leader Averof Neophytou confirmed to the Cyprus Mail on Thursday that he has thrown his hat into the ring for the 2028 presidential election. Asked ...

Former Disy leader Averof Neofytou said on Wednesday that he will stand for president again if there is no positive movement on the Cyprus problem during talks in New York ...

Former presidential candidate Andreas Mavroyiannis said on Friday that polls reaching him put him in first place for the 2028 presidential election, though he intends to wait until the end of ...

Disy deputy chairman Efthimios Diplaros and vice-chairman Yiannis Karousos have exchanged accusations of party disloyalty, after Karousos told an online leadership meeting that Diplaros had attended a gathering ‘supporting President ...

Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro and President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva are statistically tied in a simulated runoff ahead of next month’s election, an AtlasIntel/Bloomberg poll showed on ...

Health Minister Neophytos Charalambides on Wednesday insisted that his party, Diko, will support President Nikos Christodoulides’ re-election campaign in 2028, pushing back on party leader Nicholas Papadopoulos’ suggestion that the party’...

Annita Demetriou has emerged as the leading choice among Disy members for the party’s presidential nomination ahead of the 2028 elections. The poll, conducted by IMR on behalf of news ...

Far-right leader Marine Le Pen sought to woo France’s business leaders on Thursday, pledging during a first presidential debate with key rivals to put public finances back on track ...

Former president Nicos Anastasiades, spoke out on Wednesday regarding the internal battle over who will carry Disy’s banner into the presidential race, but stressed he had no intention of ...

Disy MP George Pamborides said organised crime has infiltrated politics, as he confirmed he will seek the party’s nomination for the 2028 presidential election. Speaking on Alpha TV, Pamborides claimed ...

Former health minister George Pamboridis on Friday said that he will seek his party Disy’s nomination for the 2028 presidential election. He was asked during an appearance on television channel ...

Ex auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides said he had appealed to the European Court of Human Rights on Thursday over being fired, just hours after he told state TV that he was ...

When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 the American historian Francis Fukuyama called it the end of history. Liberal democracy had triumphed as the ideal system of government having seen off ...

Relative moderate Masoud Pezeshkian urged people on Saturday to stick with him on “the difficult road ahead” after beating a hardline rival to win Iran’s presidential election. Friday’s ...

In an election campaign dominated by hardliners, Iranian presidential hopeful Massoud Pezeshkian stood out as a moderate, backing women’s rights, more social freedoms, cautious detente with the West and ...

A moderate lawmaker will face Iran supreme leader’s protege in a run-off presidential election on July 5 after the country’s interior ministry said on Saturday that no candidate secured ...

Disy on Wednesday went on the defensive after a controversial but largely unsurprising report by the auditor general on spending during last year’s presidential election. The party denied it ...

Disy leader and House Speaker Annita Demetriou on Saturday called on the party faithful to let go of toxic attitudes, whispers and rhetoric that instead of healing recent rifts, only ...

All the presidential candidates met the deadline for the submission of the accounts of their election campaigns to the elections registrar. The exercise is supposedly meant to serve transparency, but ...

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 ...

President Nicos Anastasiades tiptoed around questions on the presidential elections on Thursday, as he reiterated that he would not be seeking a third term. Anastasiades was asked to comment on ...

I WOULD never have thought that the majority of we Cypriots are suppressed eco warriors deeply concerned about climate crisis and prepared to make big personal sacrifices to save the ...