Nikos Christodoulides, former head of the Cyprus Foreign Ministry, won the presidential election in Cyprus, defeating his rival Andreas, the former chief negotiator of the Greek Cypriot side for a settlement on the island, and Cyprus’ former permanent representative to the UN. Mavroyannis in the second round. It has been reported TASS.
After processing 99.5% of the votes, Christodoulides received 51.9% of the votes and Mavroyannis 48.1%. Thus, the former head of the foreign policy department became inaccessible to his rival, who had already admitted his defeat.
It was previously announced that 14 candidates would take part in the second round according to the results of the first round. passed Two prominent figures of the island state: former Foreign Minister Nikos Christodoulides and former Permanent Representative of Cyprus to the UN Andreas Mavroyannis.
Independent candidate Christodoulides won the support of centrist and pro-Hellenic political movements. Mavroyiannis’ independent candidacy was supported by the left-wing opposition party AKEL.
According to the results of the first round of voting, the superiority of Christodoulides (32.04%) over Mavroyannis (29.59%) remained below 2.5%.