Overview
- On Sunday, May 24 the conservative DISY won the most votes with about 27.2 percent while the leftist AKEL finished second with roughly 23.9 percent, official results show.
- The ultranationalist ELAM rose to about 10–11 percent, increasing its seats and positioning it as a potential kingmaker in a more fragmented 56-member chamber.
- New entrants succeeded in entering parliament for the first time, including the anti-corruption movement ALMA at about 6 percent and the influencer-backed Direct Democracy at about 5.4 percent.
- Two centrist parties that had supported the president failed to pass the 3.6 percent threshold, which weakens Christodoulides’s parliamentary allies even though the presidency retains executive power.
- Voters cited high living costs, corruption scandals and regional spillovers from the Middle East as drivers of the shift, and EU figures warned that cooperation with ELAM could strain Cyprus’s ties with center-right partners in Brussels.