Cyprus Holds Municipal Elections Today

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(Free-Press-Release.com) December 18, 2011 -- Polling stations will open at 0700 local time (0500 GMT) and close at 1800.
There will be a break between 1200 and 1300.

A total of 546,111 persons are entitled to vote in Sunday’s elections, among them 12,333 who are citizens of other EU member states. The majority of EU citizens are from Greece and the UK.

One thousand four hundred and one polling stations are set up throughout the southern government controlled areas of the Republic (the island’s northern part is under Turkish occupation since the 1974 Turkish invasion).

One polling station will be set up at the Central Prison.

The enclaved -Greek Cypriots still living in the northern Turkish occupied areas- will vote at three polling stations.

Voters will choose a mayor as well as members of the town councils.

There are a total of 39 municipalities all over the Republic of Cyprus, nine of them are occupied. In some of the municipalities no elections are going to be held as there is only one candidate in each of them.

Votes will be counted at the regional electoral centers and those who secure election as mayors are expected to be announced by 2200 on Sunday.

A total of 9,000 employees from the civil service as well as police officers will be working on Sunday in order to ensure that the whole process will run smoothly.

Municipal elections take place every five years in December.

The first elections held in Cyprus following the island’s accession to the EU took place in 2006. That was the first time other EU nationals secured the right to vote in the Republic in accordance with EU law.CNA

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