Greens and Solidarity decide on conscience vote

Two more parties decided late on Thursday night to let their supporters vote according to their conscience.

In separate sessions of their respective top decision-making bodies, the Greens and Solidarity voted to back neither of the two candidates in Sunday’s presidential elections.

According to the Cyprus News Agency, an internal poll conducted by the Greens found that 47.92 per cent of party members chose to support neither candidate, 35.94 per cent to back independent candidate Stavros Malas, and 16.14 per cent to support the incumbent, president Nicos Anastasiades.

The Cyprus Mail is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Cyprus. It was established in 1945 and today, with its popular and widely-read website, the Cyprus Mail is among the most trusted news sites in Cyprus. The newspaper is not affiliated with any political parties and has always striven to maintain its independence. Over the past 70-plus years, the Cyprus Mail, with a small dedicated team, has covered momentous events in Cyprus’ modern history, chronicling the last gasps of British colonial rule, Cyprus’ truncated independence, the coup and Turkish invasion, and the decades of negotiations to stitch the divided island back together, plus a myriad of scandals, murders, and human interests stories that capture the island and its -people. Observers describe it as politically conservative.