According to the results of counting 100% of the votes, Nikos Christodoulides, who previously held the position of Minister of Foreign Affairs of the state, became the new president of Cyprus. It is reported by Cyprus Mail.

The publication notes that Christodoulides received 51.91% of the vote, and his opponent, career diplomat Andreas Mavroyiannis, former chief negotiator in peace negotiations with the Turkish Cypriots and former permanent representative of Cyprus to the UN - 48.09%.

Christodoulides will become the eighth president of the Mediterranean nation.

He will decide how to break the deadlock in negotiations to reunite the ethnically divided island, as well as how to deal with illegal migration, labor disputes and work to restore the image of the country tarnished by corruption scandals..

Cyprus was partitioned after the Turkish invasion in 1974.

The latest round of peace talks on the reunification of Cyprus failed in mid-2017. Christodoulides says he wants to resume talks but sees a need to revise UN regulatory framework proposed in 2017.

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