2008 Cypriot presidential election

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2008 Cypriot presidential election
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Nominee Demetris Christofias Ioannis Kasoulidis
Party AKEL DISY
Popular vote 240,604 210,195
Percentage 53.37% 46.63%
President before election

Tassos Papadopoulos
DIKO

Elected President

Demetris Christofias
AKEL

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Presidential elections were held in

Dimitris Christofias.[2][3]

The first round saw a close result between three leading candidates,

AKEL, Ioannis Kasoulidis of Democratic Rally, and the incumbent Tassos Papadopoulos. Results showed Kasoulidis in first place with 33.51%, Christofias in second with 33.29%, and Papadopoulos in third with 31.79%. Christophias and Kasoulidis therefore participated in a second round on February 24. The elimination of Papadopoulos in the first round was viewed as surprising.[1]

In the second round, Christofias won with 53.37% against 46.63% for Kasoulides.[3] He was sworn in as President on February 28.[4]

According to the exit polls, Papadopoulos was voted for by 40% of "No" voters in the

Annan referendum and 5% of the "Yes", Christofias by 35% of the "No" and 34% of the "Yes" voters and Kasoulidis by the 24% of the "No" and 62% of the "Yes" voters.[5]

Candidates

Papadopoulos (

Ecological and Environmental Movement (KOP) decided on November 18, 2007 to support Papadopoulos.[7]
The movement supported him in 2003 as well.

Furthermore, the

Kostas Themistokleous
, a former minister of agriculture and environment, also contested the election.

Controversial MEP Marios Matsakis announced on 29 December 2007 that he would contest the election. Marios Matsakis was elected two times as a member of the Cypriot parliament and once as member of the Εuropean Parliament with the support of DIKO.[9]

The Secretariat of the Movement of the United Democrats initially considered to support Themistokleous[10] but at the end they supported Christophias to minimize the possibility of Papadopoulos' re-election.[11]

Nine candidates were eventually approved to participate in the elections. Each candidate had to be recommended by one Cypriot citizen and supported by eight more.

The names of the candidates announced on 18 January 2008[12] were:

Campaign

Second round

After the first round of the election and the elimination of Papadopoulos, the latter's party,

Archbishop Chrysostomos II backed Kasoulidis.[19]

Ecological and Environmental Movement
on 21 February 2008 decided to support Dimitris Christofias.

Evroko,

ADIK
and Marios Matsakis announced that they will support neither of the two candidates.

Kostas Themistokleous backed Ioannis Kasoulidis.

Debates

On 26 January 2008 the three main candidates, Papadopoulos, Christofias, and Kasoulidis, debated on television. The debate was transmitted by all Cypriot TV stations.

CNC Plus TV. The debate started at 9.45PM local time and lasted 1 hour and 50 minutes. Each candidate had three minutes to answer each question and 1.5 minute for every follow-up question. The procedure was divided in 6 sections and, at the end of each section, each candidate had 3 minutes to give a short speech and 1.5 minute for a short comment.[23]

On 14 February, a second debate was held. The subject of discussion was the

Cyprus dispute.[24]

Opinion polls

A collection of opinion polls taken before the elections is listed below. Beginning on 11 February 2008, no opinion poll is allowed to be published.[25]

Polling Firm Source Date Published T.
Papadopoulos 		D.
Christofias 		I.
Kasoulidis 		K.
Themistokleous 		M.
Matsakis
Symmetron [26] 3 October 2007 32.9% 27.5% 27.6% 0.4%
RAI Consultants [27] 28.5% 27.8% 0.4%
Public Isuue PIK [28] 21 November 2007 31% 30% 29% 1%
Noverna [29] 22 November 2007 30.1% 28.4% 27.1% 1.2%
RAI Consultants [30] 25 December 2007 32.7% 28.7% 26.2% 1.2%
Noverna [31] 17 January 2008 30.3% 29.1% 30.5% 0.1% 2.2%
Noverna [32] 23 January 2008 30.5% 30.0% 30.1% 0.3% 2.2%
Public Issue-RIK [33] 7 February 2008 34.0% 33.5% 30.5% 0.1% 2.0%

Results

CandidatePartyFirst roundSecond round
Votes%Votes%
Dimitris Christofias
Progressive Party of Working People150,01633.29240,60453.37
Tassos PapadopoulosDemocratic Party143,24931.79
Marios MatsakisIndependent3,4600.77
Kostas KyriacouIndependent1,0920.24
Kostas ThemistocleousIndependent7530.17
Andreas EfstratiouIndependent7130.16
Christodoulos NeophytouIndependent2430.05
Anastasis MichaelIndependent1170.03
Total450,639100.00450,799100.00
Valid votes450,63997.36450,79996.09
Invalid/blank votes12,2082.6418,3443.91
Total votes462,847100.00469,143100.00
Registered voters/turnout516,44189.62516,44890.84
Source: MOI, MOI

Geographical distribution

  • Kasoulidis' distribution (1st round) (in Greek)
    Kasoulidis' distribution (1st round) (in Greek)
  • Christofias' distribution (1st round) (in Greek)
    Christofias' distribution (1st round) (in Greek)
  • Papadopoulos' distribution (1st round) (in Greek)
    Papadopoulos' distribution (1st round) (in Greek)
  • Kasoulidis' distribution (2nd round) (in Greek)
    Kasoulidis' distribution (2nd round) (in Greek)
  • Christofias' distribution (2nd round) (in Greek)
    Christofias' distribution (2nd round) (in Greek)
  • Final distribution (2nd round) (in Greek)
    Final distribution (2nd round) (in Greek)

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