Famagusta: A total of 141 candidacies from 18 party combinations were submitted on Wednesday to the Famagusta District Administration for the parliamentary elections set to take place on May 24. Of the 141 candidacies, 100 were submitted by men and 41 by women.
According to Cyprus News Agency, Florentia Georgiou, Superintendent of Elections of Members of the House of Representatives of the Famagusta electoral district, stated that no candidacies were submitted by individual independent candidates. She detailed that eleven combinations are running in the elections with full ballots of eleven candidates, while one combination consists of eight candidates, another of six candidates, one of two candidates, and four combinations consist of one candidate each.
Georgiou highlighted that 100 candidacies, or 70.09%, concern men and 41 candidacies, or 29.1%, concern women.