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[Sega]

IOANNIS KASOULIDIS seems like he will win he has most voters... a guy who said YES to the annan plan? how does he get elected as president?

so thats it all the votes have been casted its official that IOANNIS KASOULIDIS has the most votes in round one followed by christophias and good luck to thenm both in second round.. by the 24th of this month we will have a New president

I know, and Christophias said yes first then no, only one person outright said no and it looks like he might not get through on the second round.

[Sega]

IOANNIS KASOULIDIS seems like he will win he has most voters... a guy who said YES to the annan plan? how does he get elected as president?

Could it be that your people are waking up?
Anyway....no one can say who will win next week...too early..

[Mills Chapman]

BBC.com says this, as of 19:24 GMT:

Election ousts Cypriot president

The closest-ever election in southern Cyrus has ended President Tassos Papadopoulos's five years in power.
The MEP Ioannis Kasoulides won the knife-edge poll by just 980 votes, after a turnout of around 90%.

The former foreign minister will face Demetris Christofias, who came second, in a run-off vote next Sunday.

The election is being seen as a crucial step towards reunification with the break-away Turkish-controlled northern Cyprus after decades of division.

Mr Kasoulides won 33.51% of votes compared to 33.29% for Mr Christofias and 31.79% for Mr Papadopoulos.

Open-minded

A member of the right-wing DISY party, Mr Kasoulides is the candidate most favoured by the international community to push ahead with reunification talks, says the BBC's Tabitha Morgan in Nicosia.

She says the result shows that most Cypriots have clearly rejected Mr Papadopoulos's uncompromising approach to solving the Cyprus problem in favour of a more open-minded candidate.

[paliometoxo]

acording to the web site al votes have been cast? or am i mistaken?

[umit07]

Could someone please clear something which I am baffled about!

IOANNIS KASOULIDIS said YES to the Annan Plan but he is being backed by right wing DISI which GR says are a lot of EOKA B guys. At his rallies I could only spot ONE RoC flag, all the flags were of Greece , is this a good thing?

[Mills Chapman]

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[alexISS]

Could someone please clear something which I am baffled about!

IOANNIS KASOULIDIS said YES to the Annan Plan but he is being backed by right wing DISI which GR says are a lot of EOKA B guys. At his rallies I could only spot ONE RoC flag, all the flags were of Greece , is this a good thing?

Being pro-reunification does not equal to forgetting your ethnic background

[Get Real!]

Could someone please clear something which I am baffled about!

IOANNIS KASOULIDIS said YES to the Annan Plan but he is being backed by right wing DISI which GR says are a lot of EOKA B guys. At his rallies I could only spot ONE RoC flag, all the flags were of Greece , is this a good thing?

Being pro-reunification does not equal to forgetting your ethnic background

Why don't you answer his question properly Alexi?

[alexISS]

Could someone please clear something which I am baffled about!

IOANNIS KASOULIDIS said YES to the Annan Plan but he is being backed by right wing DISI which GR says are a lot of EOKA B guys. At his rallies I could only spot ONE RoC flag, all the flags were of Greece , is this a good thing?

Being pro-reunification does not equal to forgetting your ethnic background

Why don't you answer his question properly Alexi?

I did. If you had a different answer in mind feel free to post it

[umit07]

Alexiss was Tpap against unification then?