The newly elected 56-member House of Representatives welcomes three new political parties and 28 parliamentarians, although some of them have served as MPs in the past.
The Citizens’ Alliance, the Solidarity Movement and far-right ELAM are the parties that enter the Parliament for the first time.
There are 24 MPs who were elected for the first time to the House, seven of whom are under 40. Those under 40 are Efthymios Diplaros, Demetris Demetriou, Annita Demetriou and Mariella Aristidou from the ruling DISY party, Anna Theologou from the Citizens’ Alliance, and Linos Papayiannis and Christos Christou from ELAM.
There are 11 women entering the new parliament, representing 19.6per cent of MPs, up from 12.6per cent in the previous parliament.
According to the election outcome, many women came first in votes in their parties in different districts.
First in votes in Nicosia and among all candidates was Irini Charalambidou of AKEL with 16,847 votes, followed by DISY’s Stella Kyriakidou with 13,694.
In the Limassol district, head of the Solidarity Movement Eleni Theocharous received 3,788 votes, and in Larnaca DISY’s Annita Demetriou was backed by 4,006 people, more than 1,100 votes more than the second elected party MP Zacharias Zachariou.
Skevi Koukouma received the most votes in Famagusta among her AKEL co-candidates, as did the Citizens’ Alliance Anna Theologou. In the Kyrenia district Ekeni Mavrou won the most votes among other AKEL candidates.
The new faces of parliament in Nicosia are DISY’s Solon Kassinis and Demetris Demetriou, AKEL’s Stefanos Stefanou, and DIKO’s Christiana Erotokritou and Marinos Mousiouttas. In addition, EDEK’s Costis Estathiou, the head of the Citizens’ Alliance Giorgos Lillikas, and former Environment Commissioner Charalambos Theopemtou as a Greens’ MP will take up a seat in the House as will ELAM’s Christos Christou.
The new representatives for Limassol are DISY’s Elena Stavrou, AKEL’s Giorgos Georgiou, DIKO’s Panikos Leonidou, EDEK head Marinos Sizopoulos, the head of the Solidarity Movement Eleni Theocharous and Pavlos Mylonas of the Citizens’ Alliance.
New Larnaca MPs are DISY’s Annita Demetriou, AKEL’S Evanthia Savva, and DIKO’s Christos Orphanides.
Former interior minister Eleni Mavrou, who was also former Nicosia mayor, returns in parliament as an AKEL deputy for the Kyrenia district after almost ten years of absence. DISY’s Mariella Aristidou is a new face in parliament for the same district.
As for the Famagusta district, the new faces are DISY’s Onoufrios Koulla and Giorgos Karoullas, AKEL’s Nicos Kettiros, the Solidarity Movement’s Michalis Georgallas, the Citizens’ Alliance’s Anna Theologou and ELAM’s Linos Papayiannis.
The new faces from Paphos are DIKO’s Charalambos Pittokopitis, and EDEK’s Elias Myrianthous, who had also served as deputy for the same party between 1998 and 2001.
New members of parliament are also the representatives of the Maronite religious group, Yiannakis Mousas, and of the Latins, Antonella Mantovani.
