Republic of Cyprus - House of Representatives elections May 2006

cannedmoose

Your predictions go here folks... it may be some way off, but who said we can't speculate as to what's going to happen.

My bet is this... slight fall in AKEL's vote to around 30%, due to those disenchanted with the leadership of Christofias during the AP debacle. AKEL will still be the biggest party.

Significant rise in the vote for DHKO, Papadopoulos' party will ride a wave of populism to about 21 or 22% of the vote.

Slight, but not catastrophic fall in votes for DHSY to about 28%, but a loss which will bring their percentage down significantly closer to that of DHKO.

EDEK will remain a small party, maintaining their 6-7% share.

The European Party will not repeat the shock vote that it achieved at the Euroelections, dropping to around 4-5%.

The others - Eurodi, EDI, ADHK et al., will continue to scramble around for the remaining votes and seats.

Erol, if you can make this a sticky, we can post any related info here in the run-up to next year.

city · Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 8:09 pm Post subject:

sorry, can't take part in that one. I hardly know the names of the parties, let alone any programmes or details. Will watch this topic though, maybe I get educated.

btw, the village I usually spend my holidays is a "communist" one Wink

, so I didn't get to see any political diversity there. Confused

cannedmoose · Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 8:24 pm Post subject:

city · Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 8:34 pm Post subject:

probably spoiling this thread now Sad

sorry.

I remember a few years back when I was there when elections took place and of course the village supported the lefties (whoever this is), but the other side won. There were hundreds of cars, mostly Pick-ups, coming to the village to show us that _they_ had won and not we. The complete area was blocked by cars, each and every single road. Even the highway was affected. It took a while until police had made their way down to the village. There was shouting, fighting, flags all over the place, Police trying to calm down the masses and get people out of the village.....
I couldn't believe what I saw, I felt like watching a movie in cinema.
I mean people celebrate everywhere when they win the elections, but _that_
.... hhhuuuuu Shocked

cannedmoose · Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 8:36 pm Post subject:

That's Cyprus for you... Laughing

Saint Jimmy · Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 8:37 pm Post subject:

That was probably the 1998 Presidential Election, when Clerides came from behind (or so did the lefties think?) to win. That was probably the biggest turnaround in the history of Cyprus Politics, I think - hence the big fuss. As I recall, even we Clerides-voters weren't THAT confident about the outcome of that battle...

city · Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 9:02 pm Post subject:

yeah, 1998 sounds correct to me. Very Happy

Well, if it was sort of a surprise even for his supporters maybe thats why they went so overboard... Smile

Bananiot · Deputy Joined: 13 Aug 2005 Posts: 1214 Location: Nicosia

Here in Cyprus we tend to scorn the fallen. No respect for the opponent, this is no cricket, moose.

city · Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2005 10:00 pm Post subject:

Alexandros Lordos · Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2005 12:24 am Post subject:

IMO, the biggest winner of the election will be AKEL - mostly because of its attitude re the Cyprus problem. Most non-communist Greek Cypriots feel now that they are "between the devil and the deep blue sea", having the choice of Anastasiades/ DISY on the one hand, who will "sell out Cyprus by accepting the Annan Plan with minimal changes", and of Tassos/DIKO on the other hand, who "postpones and postpones hoping for more, never making a decisive step to solve the Cyprus problem". AKEL seems to be the only way out, the option for realistic negotiations with substantial improvements to the plan, leading to an early settlement.

Also, DIKO will not be strengthened as much as it could have been, because the European Party will bite off the hard-line edge of its electorate. DISY, in contrast, will not fall as much as it might have, because it will gather the vote of most of the "Yes" supporters - those who believe in accepting the Annan Plan with minimal changes.

In other words, I believe that the pre- and post- referendum attitudes of the parties, as well as expectations as to their future policy on the Cyprus Problem, will very much define the results of the 2006 elections.

Crash Test Dummy · Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2005 12:26 am Post subject:

sorry i voted other but only so i could see the results. please ignore my vote. i a just following i dont know enough to comment