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Official results in Cyprus show the country's president Nicos Anastasiades has been re-elected to another five-year term, defeating the left-leaning independent Stavros Malas. He has been congratulated by his rival for his win. With all the votes counted, the incumbent conservative...

Cypriots go to the polls for the presidential runoff on Sunday to chose between between incumbent President Nicos Anastasiades and communist-backed independent Stavros Malas. Anastasiades garnered 35.5 percent on the first round with Melas trailing behind with 30.2 percent. Together the...

The Archbishop of Cyprus, Chrysostomos II, has thrown his weight behind President Nicos Anastasiades, ahead of the incumbent's run-off vote against a leftist challenger. Anastasiades and communist-backed independent Stavros Malas will face off on Sunday to see who will become the eighth president...

*Andreas C Chrysafis is a U.K.-published author of five books and over 400 press articles. His latest books are “Aphrodite’s Sacred Virgins” and “Andreas C Chrysafis ART –Volume 1” It is official that the largest political party in Cyprus...

Cyprus' center-right DIKO party has decided it will support neither the incumbent nor his left-wing challenger in Sunday's runoff of the country’s presidential election. The party's executive bureau said endorsing either President Nicos Anastasiades or independent Stavros Malas would be a...

Incumbent leader Nicos Anastasiades and communist-backed independent Stavros Malas will face off next Sunday to see who will become the eighth president of the Republic of Cyprus. The run-off vote is set to be held on Feb. 4 since no candidate...

Latest exit polls from Cyprus' presidential election show incumbent Nicos Anastasiades will have to fight in a run-off race next week after apparently failing to win 50 percent of the vote on Sunday. Voting ended at 6 p.m. local time...

President Nicos Anastasiades heads into Sunday's Cyprus election as the favorite in a campaign dominated by the economy and stalled efforts to reunify the divided island. Among the nine candidates for the top job -- all male -- the center-right Democratic...

The Cyprus issue and the re-ignition of the UN-backed peace process dominated a televised debate between the candidates running in the island’s presidential election on Sunday. The five main candidates -- incumbent Nicos Anastasiades; Nicolas Papadopoulos; Stavros Malas; George Lillikas;...

Cyprus president Nicos Anastasiades is projected to win a second term in office in the elections of January 28, according to a survey released on Thursday. The final poll commissioned by the CyBC again showed the incumbent comfortably in the...

President of Cyprus Nicos Anastasiades maintains a comfortable lead to win in next year’s presidential election according to a poll presented by Antenna TV on Friday night. The poll was conducted via 1,021 personal interviews with randomly selected subjects by...

Cypriot main opposition, communist AKEL party, has accused President Nicos Anastasiades of militarising the Cyprus problem in the run up to the presidential elections, after two Greek Airforce jets overflew the military parade marking the island’s independence. Party spokesman Stephanos...

Conservative Nicos Anastasiades, who backed an international bailout plan that comes with hard austerity measures similar to those imposed in Greece, rolled to victory in the Cypriot Presidential run-off election on Feb. 24 with a big victory over his...

As Cypriots headed to the polls on Feb. 24 to elect a new President in a run-off between the frontrunner, Conservative Nicos Anastasiades and the Communist-backed Stavros Malas, the cost of a bailout to save the island's economy from...

Right-wing leader Nicos Anastasiades won the Cyprus Presidential election balloting on Feb. 17, but without the 50 percent majority he needed to claim the office outright and will face the Communist-backed Stavros Malas in a run-off. The two were vying...