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.
In her statements after the end of the procedure, Florentia Georgiou, Superintendent of Elections of Members of the House of Representatives of the Famagusta electoral district, said that no candidacies were submitted by individual independent candidates.
She also said that eleven combinations are running in the elections with full ballots of eleven candidates, one combination consists of 8 candidates, one combination of six candidates, one of two candidates while four combinations consist of one candidate each.
Georgiou pointed out that ‘100 candidacies or 70.09% concern men and 41 candidacies or 29.1% concern women’.