Presidential Elections In Cyprus Republic
Cypriots are voting today to choose a president.
Polling stations opened at 7am (05:00 GMT) on Sunday and will close at 6pm (16:00 GMT), with a 60-minute break at noon, Aljazeera reports.
Results are expected by 830pm (18:30 GMT).
Some 550,000 people have the right to vote in the poll, which is contested by an all-male line-up of nine presidential hopefuls seeking a fixed five-year term in office.
Incumbent President Nicos Anastasiades, of the right-wing Democratic Rally party, is projected to win the first round, after leading all opinion polls in the run-up to the vote.
His closest challengers are Stavros Malas, an independent candidate backed by the communist party AKEL, and centrist Nicolas Papadopoulos, chairman of the Democratic Party.
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