Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades wins second term

Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades won a second five-year term as voters gave a thumbs-up to his record in containing an economic meltdown in 2013 and conducting abortive peace talks with the Turkish Cypriots.

With all votes counted, the conservative had 56 percent of the vote against 44 percent for the leftist-backed Stavros Malas.Anastasiades, 71, steered the Cypriot economy to



recovery after it was plunged into crisis in 2013, days after he was first elected.

Cyprus emerged from a bailout programme from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund in 2016. 

As leader of the island's Greek Cypriot community, Anastasiades also oversaw peace talks with the breakaway Turkish-Cypriot controlled north.