2021 Parliamentary Election
Members of the House of Representatives are directly elected by proportional representation and preferential vote, with members serving 5-year terms. The next election is anticipated for May 2021. In the House of Representatives, 56 seats are reserved for Greek Cypriots and 24 for Turkish Cypriots. However, Turkish Cypriots have not held elections and no Turkish Cypriots have attended the House since 1963.
The peculiarity of the pre-election period, in which in a few months the country's political establishment will enter dynamically, is none other than the fact that it will take place in the shadow of the coronavirus pandemic and the consequences it leaves behind, mainly in economic terms. And this, of course, provided that in the course of events there will be no second wave of the pandemic, since such a development will re-highlight the health dimension of the whole problem and at the same time will create a new domino of multidimensional negative situations.
A year before the 2021 parliamentary elections, the four small parliamentary parties were in the process of starting their processes and charting the course they will follow, in order not to lose what they did four years ago. years won. According to the report, all four parties are oriented towards an autonomous descent, while the first shipwreck regarding the possibility of concluding collaborations is already recorded with the failure of the relevant effort made by the Solidarity Movement and Citizens' Alliance. In fact, with the party of George Lillikas, to decide and announce last week its autonomous descent.
However, their task for the 2021 parliamentary elections seems to become even more difficult compared to 2016, since several of the reasons and factors that then worked to help the four, show that if they have not disappeared, they no longer exist in the to the extent that they existed at the time.
Particularly in terms of Solidarity and Citizens' Alliance, the four years that have passed so far record a series of events that make the two parties seem clearly weakened, both in terms of their dynamics and at other levels, with the big question concerning whether in the months leading up to the parliamentary elections they will be able and how, to reorganize and cover any lost ground. Ecologists seem to be called upon to win a similar bet, to whom the result of their cooperation with the Citizens' Alliance in last year's European elections sounded like a resounding alarm bell - something that of course also applies to the Alliance - as it was, by their own admission, disappointing.
As for ELAM, the data seems somewhat different, since in the European elections the nationalists saw their percentages jump from 3.7% of the last MPs to 8%. However, the fact that despite the significant increase in their percentages they did not manage to elect an MEP, raises questions related to whether the frustration created will cost in the future and will be reflected in the opposition to the dynamics gained by ELAM in recent years, the which enabled him to make his presence felt in the country's political scene. 7% of the last MPs, at 8%.
However, the fact that despite the significant increase in their percentages they did not manage to elect an MEP, raises questions related to whether the frustration created will cost in the future and will be reflected in the opposition to the dynamics gained by ELAM in recent years, the which enabled him to make his presence felt in the country's political scene. 7% of the last MPs, at 8%. However, the fact that despite the significant increase in their percentages they did not manage to elect an MEP, raises questions related to whether the frustration created will cost in the future and will be reflected in the opposition to the dynamics gained by ELAM in recent years, the which enabled him to make his presence felt in the country's political scene.
The traditional political forces, with the background and the presidential of 2023, will activate every mechanism at their disposal, without letting anything fall to the ground. In DISY and AKEL, after a series of confrontations in which they saw their electoral power decrease, their return to an upward course and the need to secure those percentages that will give them the opportunity to feel dominant in the political game and to march from a position of power.
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