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Anastasiades and Malas go to runoff

The race for president in Cyprus will go to a runoff vote after incumbent conservative Nicos Anastasiades won the first round but failed to muster an outright majority in a poll overshadowed by high abstention.

Nikos Anastasiadis, Stavros Malas
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By Stergos Kastelloriou

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With all of the votes counted, Anastasiades on Sunday secured 35.5 percent, ahead of his closest rival Stavros Malas, an independent candidate backed by the left-wing AKEL party, on 30.2 percent.

Centrist Nicos Papadopoulos came third with 25.7 percent.

Stergos Kastelloriou reports.

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