The official proclamation of the brand new MEPs was occurred on Tuesday at 8.30am on the Filoxenia Convention Centre in Nicosia. Voter turnout in Sunday’s European elections stood at 58.86 per cent, in line with an announcement by the Chief Returning Officer, Elikkos Elia.
The six MEP are distributed as follows: two seats to Disy, and one seat every to left wing Akel, unbiased candidate Fidias Panayiotou, Elam, and Diko.
Other than Panayiotou, the 5 party-backed MEPs are Loukas Fourlas (Disy), Michalis Hadjipantela (Disy), George Georgiou (Akel), Geadis Geadi (Elam) and Costas Mavrides (Diko).
Based on remaining official information, of 683,432 registered voters, 402,276 or 58.86 per cent voted, with abstentions at 41.14 per cent, which interprets to 281,156 folks. Nearly all of the poll papers 368,455 (91.59 per cent) have been legitimate, whereas 8,450 (2.1 per cent) have been invalid, and blanks have been 25,371, (6.31 per cent).
Disy acquired 91,316 votes (24.78 per cent), Akel acquired 79,163 votes (21.49 per cent), Fidias Panayiotou acquired 71,330 votes (19.36 per cent), Elam 41,215 votes (11 .19 per cent), Diko 35,815 votes (9.72 per cent), Edek acquired 18,681 votes (5.07 per cent).
VOLT Cyprus acquired 10,777 votes (2.92 per cent), Dipa acquired 7,988 votes (2.17 per cent), Motion of Ecologists – Residents’ Cooperation acquired 4,742 votes (1.29 per cent), and the Energetic Residents-Motion of United Cypriot Hunters acquired 4,603 votes (1.25 per cent).
The Animal Social gathering Cyprus acquired 1,013 votes (0.27 per cent), Nationwide Motion Motion acquired 979 votes (0.27 per cent), Andronikos Zervides acquired 444 votes (0.12 per cent) and the Niki celebration acquired 389 votes (0.11 per cent).