The Greek Cypriot press indicated regarding the parliamentary elections in Greek Cypriot side that voters determined the election results by turning away from the polls. Newspapers wrote that 179,652 voters did not go to the polls in order to protest elections.<\/p>\n
While DISI became the winner of the elections with 30.69 % of the votes, AKEL was one of the disappointed\u00a0parties\u00a0with 25,672% of votes, wounded deeply compared to the previous elections.\u00a0 According to the comments\u00a0in\u00a0the Greek Cypriot press, AKEL took a major blow with the lowest vote rate in its history and a change in the party leadership is also among the possibilities that may arise in the coming days.<\/p>\n
On the other hand, according to the Greek Cypriot media, some important points came\u00a0to light\u00a0related to the decrease in the vote rates of AKEL and DISI. According to comments, AKEL is still paying the price for the economic crisis which emerged during the presidency of Dimitris Hristofyas. The impact of the economic crisis\u00a0has\u00a0also continued during Anastasiades\u2019 period and caused DISI to lose votes as well. It was also stated that bipolarity due to the close relationships between the two parties regarding the Cyprus problem\u00a0was\u00a0effective in reducing votes. Besides, Eleni Theoharus\u2019 separation from DISI and participation\u00a0in\u00a0the elections with her own party also caused a decline in DISI\u2019s vote rates.<\/p>\n
One of the losers of the elections in\u00a0the\u00a0South is EDEK.\u00a0 EDEK which took 8.93% of votes in the parliamentary elections in 2011, lost two seats in the parliament with 6.18 vote rate in the elections on Sunday\u00a022nd<\/sup>\u00a0May.\u00a0 On the other hand, DIKO, which exhibits uncompromising attitudes on the Cyprus problem, experienced great joy after the election results on Sunday.\u00a0The\u00a0DIKO party, survived this year’s elections without being affected in a negative way by taking 14.49% of the votes. Ecologists-Citizens Solidarity also welcomed the election results by taking 4.81% of votes. Yorgos Lilikas\u2019s party Citizens Alliance also gained right to enter the parliament by raising its vote rate to 6.01% in this year’s election. Another Greek Cypriot political party which gained right to enter parliament is the fascist ELAM, which is well known with its racist attacks against Turkish Cypriots. ELAM is supported by fascist Golden Dawn party in Greece. While 4056 voters supported ELAM in the elections in 2011, the party succeed to enter the parliament with 13,041 votes (3.71%).\u00a0 Some sources in the Greek Cypriot press described the situation as\u00a0\u201ca\u00a0disgrace for democracy\u201d. According to the Greek Cypriot press, with an eight-party structure it seems that inevitable differences will occur in the political map of the Greek Cypriot parliament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Greek Cypriot press indicated regarding the parliamentary elections in Greek Cypriot side that voters determined [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}