anyone could expect his votes to diminish rather than increase In fact It has managed to increase its power!
I am afraid for once more you give misleading information. (or you simply have no clue). The success for DISI was that they managed not to totally collapse, and not that they increased their power. They actually lost power.
Here are the results of the EU elections:
http://www.euroelections2004.gov.cy/
Here are the results of the last(2001) parliament elections:
http://www.ekloges.com.cy/nqcontent.cfm ... e&a_id=712
DISI (Anastasiades Party) last parliamentary elections got 34% and in the EU elections 28.23% thats almost 7% less. Where did you see the increase?? The only reason that DISI is now first is that AKEL lost even more.
The only parties that increased their power are DIKO (papadopoulos) and EDEK (EDEK from 6.51% to 10.79%!!!) parties that clearly supported the "NO" vote (unlike AKEL who's "no" was not that clear, especially considering that Eleni Mavrou and Takis Hatzigeorgiou and some others of its members were going around the channels supporting "yes"). I voted AKEL in 2001 but this time I voted EDEK. I hope they got their lesson, or worst days will come for them.
So michalis, keep your misleading information in other areas. When we are talking with exact numbers you can not mislead anybody no matter how much you would like to.