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WorldPosted at: May 22 2016 10:40AM


Cypriots go to polls to elect new legislature

ATHENS, May 22 (Reuters) Cyprus went to the polls today to elect a new parliament in a vote surveys suggest could be won by conservatives backing the presidential incumbent leading peace talks on the ethnically split island.
Just over 540,000 people have the right to vote for 56 deputies in Cyprus's House of Representatives, typically seen as a tussle between the right-wing Democratic Rally and the communist AKEL, with the centrist Democratic Party in third place.
Although Cyprus has an executive system of government and the president is elected separately, the vote today is a popularity gauge for President Nicos Anastasiades, whose term expires in 2018.
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