Main opposition party AKEL is stepping up pressure for investigations into the involvement of ex-President Nicos Anastasiades’ former law office in the golden passport scheme following an indictment handed by the Cyprus
Nicos Christodoulides, close associate of outgoing President Nicos Anastasiades, was elected the next president of the Republic, in a runoff on Sunday where he faced former diplomat Andreas Mavroyiannis. Christodoulides, 49, received
Extreme right party ELAM has decided not to endorse any candidate in Sunday’s presidential runoff but wants to prevent an AKEL government. Former foreign minister Nikos Christodoulides, 49, takes a slim lead
Main opposition party AKEL has tabled two bills targeting excess profits with a whopping 90% windfall tax on energy producers working with Renewable Energy Sources. The bills tabled by the left-wing party
Members of the European Parliament, main opposition AKEL’s George Georgiou and Niyazi Kizilyurek, have demanded that authorities in the Turkish occupied north of the island release a peace activist arrested on suspicion
The latest news on the campaign trail in the runup to the 2023 presidential elections is that leftist opposition AKEL seems to favour Andreas Mavroyiannis, a close associate of President Anastasiades whom
Former Cyprus problem negotiator Andreas Mavroyiannis is AKEL’s choice of candidate for the Presidential elections in February 2023. Following a two-day session, the left main opposition party’s political bureau decided to back
The latest attempt of the two largest opposition parties to form an alliance ahead of the Presidential Elections in 2023 has collapsed; communists AKEL and centre-right DIKO cannot agree on a common
Cyprus’ main opposition communists AKEL’s newly elected General Secretary, Stefanos Stefanou, has an uphill struggle to rebuild its image as the party of the left and defender of the working class. Stefanou,
Cyprus’ main opposition party AKEL has a new leader, Stephanos Stephanou, elected Secretary-General by a strong majority at the end of a three-day party conference. Stephanou, 56, a former government spokesperson, replaces
