Cyprus presidential election goes to runoff with ex-foreign minister in lead

The race to become the eighth president ofwill extend into a second week after the Mediterranean island’s former foreign minister Nikos Christodoulides emerged as the frontrunner but failed to gain enough support to win outright.

With all votes counted, Averof Neofytou, fielded by the centre-right Disy party of the twice-elected outgoing president, Nicos Anastasiades, trailed with 26.11%. The outcome will be seen as a surprise as Mavroyiannis was regarded as an outsider.

Cyprus has been split since Ankara sent in troops in 1974, seizing its northern third in response to a coup orchestrated by the junta then in power in Athens aimed at uniting the country with Greece. “A lot of people in Cyprus find the prospect of such an alliance, which would be a legitimisation of the far right, extremely worrying,” said Christoforos Christoforou, a political analyst specialised in elections. “At 6.1%, Elam won more votes than opinion polls had forecast,” he told the Guardian.

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