Cyprus election: Anastasiades ‘leads’ presidential scramble

Nicosia, Cyprus – Nicos Anastasiades is heading for a 2nd five-year term as president of the Republic of Cyprus, preliminary exit polls like projected.

A forecast by deliver broadcaster CyBC after polls closed on Sunday place toughen for the incumbent conservative at a median of fifty six.5 %, interior a fluctuate of Fifty four.5 % to fifty nine.5 %.

The estimate placed Anastasiades, 71, earlier than his 50-year-broken-down rival Stavros Malas, a leftist-backed self sustaining who’s anticipated to invent a median of 42.seventy five %, interior a fluctuate of Forty.5 % to forty five.5 %.

Separate exit polls by other major TV networks additionally confirmed Anastasiades main the scramble.

The projections sparked scenes of joy in Anastasiades’s marketing campaign headquarters in central Nicosia.

« The final consequence is a trigger for optimism for the following five years, » Ioannis Hasikos, a 35-year-broken-down licensed expert, acknowledged. 

Polls closed at 6pm (Sixteen:00 GMT). A is anticipated interior Ninety minutes.

The runoff ballotwas a repeat of the 2013 presidential election, which was won by Anastasiades with Fifty seven.forty eight % of the vote. 

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