Les Elections présidentielles chypriotes des 17 et 24 février 2013

Abstract

Cypriot presidential elections held on 17 and 24 February 2013 have a double originality
according to Jean Catsiapis. First, the outgoing President Dimitri Christofias, unlike his
predecessors did not seek re-election. In fact, aware of the failure of his mandate, he didn’t
want to be repudiated by the electorate. Second, the Cyprus problem, that is to say, the
question of the reunification of Cyprus was not the center stage of the campaign, as is normally
the case - since 1974 - in any political election in the island of Aphrodite. Instead the economic
and financial crisis, was the main topic discussed during the campaign. Nicos Anastasiades,
the head of the Right, considered by a majority of Cypriots to be in the best position to resolve
this crisis, became the seventh President of the Republic of Cyprus.