Anastasia Anthousi withdraws Nicosia election recount application

Nicosia, Cyprus. Former Disy parliamentary candidate Anastasia Anthousi on Wednesday withdrew her application for a recount of votes in the Nicosia district, in which she had challenged the results of the May 24 elections. The electoral court approved the withdrawal.

Recount application

The application was filed in July and concerned the counting of votes in Nikitari, where Anthousi said four Edek ballots had initially been counted as Elam votes before being withdrawn after the error was identified.

Anthousi said the correction affected the allocation of parliamentary seats in four electoral districts and resulted in her not being elected in Nicosia.

Seat allocation

Anthousi, a former deputy welfare minister, had requested a recount of the Nikitari ballot box, questioning the procedure used to correct the votes.

She received 7,606 votes and would have secured Disy’s sixth seat in Nicosia if the final allocation of seats had not changed.