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23 May, 2016Difficult political landscape for Cyprus talks
23 May, 2016Greek Cypriot terrorist organization ELAM, which is supported by the Church, doubled the amount of vote rates compared to the previous parliamentary elections and won two seats in the parliament.
Yorgos Lillikas’ political party Citizens Alliance and Eleni Theoharus’s Solidarity Movement, which separated from DISI and joined the Ecologists, won 3 seats in the parliament.
Although the Greek Cypriot leader Nikos Anastasiades’ party DISI, which has a high likelihood to say “yes” to a possible referendum, and AKEL completed the elections in top places, these two parties that support a federal solution lost votes in total of around 10% compared to the previous general election.
There were 542,915 registered voters in the election in which 12 political parties and alliances ran. The Greek Cypriot High Electoral Board announced that the election turnout was 67.37%. The election turnout in the parliamentary election in 2011 was 78.70%.
According to the first election results, DISI received 30.68%, AKEL 25.67%, DIKO 14.49%, EDEK 6.18%, Citizens Alliance 6.01%, Solidarity Movement 5.24%, Ecologists and Citizens Cooperation 4.81%, and lastly ELAM received 3.71% of the votes.
