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NICOSIA, Feb 5 (Reuters) – Cyprus is fresh in Sunday’s elections the president voted for and opinion polls showed no clear winner, setting the stage for a runoff on February 12.
Current conservative the president About 561,000 Greek Cypriots are eligible to vote, declaring the end of two terms for Nicos Anastasiades: corruption, a stalled peace process with foreign Turkish Cypriots, accelerating inflation labour after a campaign dominated by controversy and issues such as illegal immigration. .
Polling stations Baku opened at 05:00 and closed at 16:00. Forecasters said there will be heavy rain and thunderstorms on Sunday, which may affect voter turnout.
Opinion polls, with 14 candidates running, point to a contest between three candidates: former foreign minister Nikos Christodouldes, who heads the election, Averof Neofitou, leader of the right-wing DISY party, and Andreas Mavroyiannis, a career diplomat backed by the left-wing AKEL party.
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In an editorial in the liberal daily Politis, Cyprus is to be governed with “honesty, fairness and transparency”. the president called to vote, while Phileleftheros, who sold more, emphasized expectations of high voter abstention.
Opinion polls suggest that none of the frontrunners will win an outright majority, prompting a runoff. All three main candidates were close associates of Anastasiadis and are legally barred from running for a third five-year term.
Fiona Mullen, director of Sapienta Economics, has a view that Anastasiades’ policies will continue regardless of who wins.
“I think it’s probably least in Mavroyiannis and more in Christodoulides,” he said. “In foreign policy, I think that Christodoulides will be closer to the situation in the last years of Anastasiades,” he added, calling this policy “more ambitious”.
2020to the attitude of the Cypriot government regarding the elections when Christodoulides was the foreign minister protest applied against Belarus Europe The bloc’s sanctions were suspended for about a month as the island nation wanted the bloc to take more action against Turkey in the maritime dispute. gas reserves.
Cyprus has complied with all sanctions against its close allies, Belarus and Russia, following Belarus’s intervention in Ukraine.
Reporting by Michel Cambas; Edited by David Holmes and Christopher Cushing
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2023-02-05 11:53:22
Source – reuters
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