NICOSIA – Despite reneging on promises to protect bank depositors from confiscations and failing to help reunite the island with Turkish-Cypriots, President Nicos Anastasiades is walking to a big win in the Jan, 22, 2018 preliminary elections, another survey has shown.
The poll by Cymar Market Research shows Anastasiades will easily top the other candidates with 53-45 percent lead over Independent Stavros Malas in second, who wouldn’t be able to force a second round run-off if the incumbent doesn’t win a majority.
DIKO party candidate Nicolas Papadopoulos got 42 percent in a curious poll that allowed people to choose more than one candidate as their preference, a Cyprus Mail report showed.
Although he walked away from unity talks in July at the Swiss resort of Crans-Montana with Turkish-Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci after Turkey refused to remove its army and wanted the right to militarily intervene when it wanted.
That continued decades of frustration as a bevy of talks since an unlawful 1974 Turkish invasion which still sees the northern third occupied have failed to bring a resolution and with fears the negotiations are over for good.
Anastasiades, breaking promises, agreed to the seizure of 47.5 percent of bank accounts over 100,000 euros ($118,500) in 2013 to get a 10-billion euro ($18.55 billion) bailout from international lenders, costing many Cypriots a big chunk if their life savings to protect banks whose bad management brought the country to the edge of economic ruin.
He also said he would root out the managers but backed away but still was deemed the best candidate to handle the economy and bring more reforms and found the most trustworthy despite breaking his word.
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