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[iceman]

Papadopoulos is the extreme right! He has gone home. Yes I am celebrating, all night tonight.

I wonder if he is going to shed any tears tonight (like he did 4 years ago)
He has a bloody good reason for it tonight

[zan]

Papadopoulos is the extreme right! He has gone home. Yes I am celebrating, all night tonight.

Have one on me my friend.....Hope we can all see a bright future and can get on with our lives now.

[paliometoxo]

its gonna be IOANNIS KASOULIDIS or Dimitris...

[alexISS]

Papadopoulos was a bad president and he caused great harm to the image of Cyprus. Thank God he's gone!

[iceman]

damn!!! Papadopoulos just cost me a table for 8



Mind you,it was worth it

[umit07]

Who is gonna be raking up the Tpap votes?
That's the new question now!

[Piratis]

I don't know why is Bananiot celebrating. If there was one result in the first round that would guarantee that Papadopoulos will be part of the next goverment, the result is this one.

What is Christofias going to do Bananiot? Is he going to keep you and Papapetrou and lose the elections? Or is he going to show to you the door, make a coalition with DIKO and EDEK and win?

[eracles]

Well actually Piratis has a point - my brother bought this up yesterday - the best result was for tpap to make it to round 2 and get kicked out - now he gets to be king maker.

[raiseurfist]

I don't know why is Bananiot celebrating. If there was one result in the first round that would guarantee that Papadopoulos will be part of the next goverment, the result is this one.

What is Christofias going to do Bananiot? Is he going to keep you and Papapetrou and lose the elections? Or is he going to show to you the door, make a coalition with DIKO and EDEK and win?

I really dont think that that would happen.
That would be a fatal mistake for both parties because they were accusing each other of all sorts of things for the last 4 months or so. How can they justify a new coalition again.

[Mills Chapman]

BBC.com 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.