THE CYPRIOT PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 2023 AND ITS AFTERMATH

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THE CYPRIOT PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 2023 AND ITS AFTERMATH

7 Mar 2023

The presidential election is by far the nificant concessions, while Anastasiades’ critics within the most important election since the President of the Republic is Greek Cypriot community accused him of deliberately avoid- both the head of state and the head of government. [...] THE ELECTION candidates concurred on the need for immediate action on immigration by the new government, but none of them 4.1 The outcome of the first round adopted anti-immigrant rhetoric as is the case in other Europe- The first round of the presidential election was held on 5 Feb- an countries. [...] Both the public and the media expected that the DISY The day after the second round of the presidential elections, Ne- political bureau would support Christodoulides, as he was a ophytou, as leader of DISY, convened a meeting of the political high-profile party member and had been foreign minister in bureau and announced that intra-party elections for the leader- the Anastasiades government. [...] Then, in a rather unexpected twist, on 21 February, the day for sub- In the following days, the week between the first and second mission of official candidacy for the party’s presidency, Annita rounds, the two remaining candidates set out to win over the Demetriou, the current president of the Parliament announced DISY voters who had supported Neophytou. [...] The outcome of the second round For DIKO and DIPA, the election of Christodoulides brings the The second round of the 2023 presidential election was held on two parties together in power.
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