Christodoulides ran as an independent candidate and had the backing of centrists and centre-right parties.

Christodoulides ran as an independent candidate and had the backing of centrists and centre-right parties.
Turnout for the runoff stood at 72.2 percent, marginally higher than in the first round of voting.
Ex-FM with the ruling right-wing DISY party faces off chief negotiator in peace talks with Turkish Cypriots in run-off.
Rescue efforts after magnitude 7.8 and 7.6 tremors complicated by severe winter conditions.
With 14 candidates in the running, opinion polls point to a race between three frontrunners.
The foreign minister of Cyprus on whether the island needs further assistance from the international community.
Archbishop Chrysostomos II influenced politics and religious life on the divided island, leading the Church since 2006.
Clashes appear to have broken out between two groups in the reception centre, according to police.
As the US and Turkey pull further apart, Cyprus is becoming an area of increasingly intense competition between them.
Ankara says Washington’s decision will ‘negatively affect efforts to resettle the Cyprus issue’.
The defendants, including former president of the Cypriot parliament, were exposed by Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit.
A Turkish ship sets off to drill for gas in the eastern Mediterranean – a move that risks inflaming regional tensions.
Greece, Turkey, and Cyprus face uncertain summer season as numbers of Russian tourists slump amid war on Ukraine.
Cyprus highest court quashes the conviction of a British woman found guilty of faking a claim of being gang-raped.