Election officials take ballot boxes from a central depot as they are distributed to polling stations, in the capital Nicosia, Cyprus. Photo: APNicosia: Cyprus votes in a presidential election Sunday with incumbent Nicos Anastasiades ahead as he pledges a fresh push to reunify the divided island after talks collapsed last year. “The economy has featured more than the Cyprus problem in this campaign,” Fiona Mullen, director of Nicosia-based Sapienta Economics, told AFP. When Anastasiades took over, the banking sector was in meltdown and he took a 10-billion-euro (more than $12-billion) bailout that entailed biting austerity measures. That included a drastic haircut on accounts of over 100,000 euros held in the country’s biggest lender, Bank of Cyprus.

Source: Mint January 28, 2018 04:41 UTC