Cyprus News Agency: News in English, 13-02-22
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[01] Presidential election campaign ends midnight Friday
[01] Presidential election campaign ends midnight Friday
The presidential campaign for the run-off election on Sunday wraps up
at midnight and all is set for the voting process.
The two remaining candidates Nicos Anastasiades, President of the
Democratic Rally and Stavros Malas, former health minister in President
Demetris Christofias' Cabinet, will cross swords in the last live
televised debate on Friday night.
The Election services are all geared up for the second round and everyone
expresses the hope that once again everything will run smoothly. Polling
stations will open at 07.00 am local time (05.00 GMT) and will close at
06.00 pm with a break between 12 and 13.00. The final result is expected
to be announced at around 07.00 pm Sunday night.
The proclamation ceremony of the seventh President of the Republic
of Cyprus will take place at around 10.00pm local time. In Sunday's
elections a total of 1.130 polling centres will be set up, including 40
that will operate abroad.
The number of voters are 545,491. In the first round of the presidential
elections held 17th of February, Nicos Anastasiades, also supported by
the Democratic Party, got 45.46% of the vote, while AKEL-backed Malas
got 26.91%. EDEK supported Yiorgos Lillikas failed to make it to the
run-off election.
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