国产精品99一区二区三_免费中文日韩_国产在线精品一区二区_日本成人手机在线

Cypriots vote in runoff presidential election

Source: Xinhua| 2018-02-04 20:15:38|Editor: pengying
Video PlayerClose

CYPRUS-POLITICS-PRESIDENTIAL-ELECTIONS

Leftwing candidate for Cypriot presidency Stavros Malas votes at a polling station in Nicosia, Cyprus, Feb. 4, 2018. Cypriots started voting on Sunday in the runoff presidential election, a replica of the runoff five years ago in which center-right candidate Nicos Anastasiades beat leftist Stavros Malas with a comfortable margin. (Xinhua/PIO)

NICOSIA, Feb. 4 (Xinhua) -- Cypriots started voting on Sunday in the runoff presidential election, a replica of the runoff five years ago in which center-right candidate Nicos Anastasiades beat leftist Stavros Malas with a comfortable margin.

Supported by center-right party Democratic Rally, Anastasiades is seeking a second term. Polls show 35.51 percent of the vote in the first round for Anastasiades compared to 30.24 percent for Malas, who is supported by the left-wing AKEL opposition party.

The electoral service said that after four hours of voting, 10.9 percent of voters have cast ballot papers, a little higher than the 10.5 percent in the first round, but lower by just over 1 percent compared with the 2013 runoff.

Anastasiades focused his campaign on economy, which is according to him near melt-down due to high spending and deficit left by the previous left-wing government, in which his rival Malas was a health minister.

Malas focused his campaign on accusing Anastasiades of making the people suffer by accepting an austerity economic program demanded by international lenders and of being incapable of negotiating a Cyprus solution.

Despite the different economic and social policies the two candidates have, they hold remarkably close views on future solution of the Cyprus problem, which is a reunification in a federal, two-community state of Greek and Turkish Cypriots.

Voting stations opened at 6 a.m. local time (0400 GMT) and are scheduled to close at 6 p.m. (1600 GMT).

Exit polls are expected shortly after the closing of electoral stations.

The electoral service said that final results are expected at 7:30 p.m.

The new president will be nominated during a ceremony scheduled for 10 p.m.

   1 2 3 4 5 Next  

KEY WORDS: Cypriots
EXPLORE XINHUANET
010020070750000000000000011100001369486191
主站蜘蛛池模板: 迭部县| 建平县| 康保县| 云安县| 金平| 廊坊市| 曲周县| 合山市| 五大连池市| 依兰县| 岳普湖县| 宾阳县| 精河县| 屏南县| 铜梁县| 华亭县| 祁东县| 两当县| 赤城县| 汉中市| 北辰区| 正蓝旗| 大石桥市| 沧州市| 乌拉特前旗| 南康市| 正镶白旗| 博野县| 延庆县| 礼泉县| 衡东县| 连江县| 宁城县| 博野县| 洪泽县| 昂仁县| 宁海县| 六枝特区| 无锡市| 岐山县| 澜沧|