The Cypriot president called for a massive mobilization to send “a strong message about the importance we give to a stronger Europe.”
The political parties in Cyprus go with worry and possible increase in blank and null votesas well as a abstention significant number of voters in the European Parliament elections.
Next Sunday, Cypriot voters will go to the polls in both the european elections as in the locales. But the latest local government reform requires voters to cast between six and 10 votes, something that could create confusion.
Amid growing concerns about a possible demobilization of the electorate, Cypriot President Nicos Christodoulides called for a mass participation in the voting process.
“Las european elections They concern us and affect us all. The mass participation will send a strong message of the importance we give to a Europa to be strongermore resilient, more strategically autonomous, more united and, of course, more efficient”.
The political parties of the island country end their electoral campaign with massive demonstrations. Its objective is to obtain the greatest possible number of seats from the six allocated to Cyprus in the European Parliament.
The issues dominating public debate in Cyprus
Twenty years after the country’s accession to the European Unionwhich is widely regarded as the Republic’s most important achievement since its creation in 1960, Cypriots believe that There is still much left to do.
“One problem we face is the financial problem. The prices of all the goods they are shooting and people cannot live properly. It’s difficult, something has to be done,” says Cypriot citizen Christoula Alexandrou.
Nicos Stylianou, another Cypriot, calls for Europe to approach the issue of his country “more seriously”, since part of Cyprus “is under occupation by Türkiye but the EU does not see it as an occupation, but as a difference between two communities, and that is not the case.
The increase of cost of living, the possibility that the UE exercise pressure on Ankara for the Cypriot issue and the immigration are the central themes who have dominated the election campaign and public debate in Cyprus.
