Former Foreign Minister Of Cyprus, Nikos Christodoulides Wins Presidential Election

Former Foreign Minister of Cyprus, Nikos Christodoulides has been elected president, with his rival conceding defeat and congratulating him.

Christodoulides, 49, defeated fellow diplomat Andreas Mavroyiannis, 66, according to exit polls by five television stations in the south of the divided Mediterranean island.

Mavroyiannis made it known in an interview that: “Tonight a journey has ended, a great journey that I shared with thousands of people. I regret we couldn’t achieve the change that Cyprus needed.”

The Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation put Christodoulides at 50.5-53.5 percent in the vote for the head of state and government, ahead of Mavroyiannis with 46.5-49.5 percent, to succeed two-term conservative President Nicos Anastasiades