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The Democratic Party (Шаблон:Lang-el, Dimokratikó Kómma (DIKO)) is a Greek-Cypriot nationalist, centrist[1] political party in Cyprus founded in 1976 by Spyros Kyprianou.[2][3]

DIKO is variously described as centrist,[4][5] centre-left[6] or centre-right;[7][8][9] internationally, it is a member of the Progressive Alliance, which groups together mainly centre-left parties.[10] Among all Cypriot political parties, DIKO claims to be the most loyal follower of the policies of Archbishop Makarios, the founding father of the Republic of Cyprus.[11] Its electoral stronghold is the Paphos District.Шаблон:Cn

Overview

As stated in its founding declaration, the Democratic Party proposes the political philosophy of "social centrism", which constitutes "a total of attributes and values that offer in the state social cohesion, political prospect, improvement of terms of life and development of human culture, that should be shared between the entire population and not only between the privileged teams of the population". In June 2003, under the leadership of Tassos Papadopoulos, DIKO announced it was moving away from its traditional centre-right political positioning,[12] and declared its intention of moving towards social democracy.[12]

The party has developed a strict and hardline stance on the Cyprus problem and strongly opposed the Annan plan in 2004. DIKO also supports European integration and a non-aligned foreign policy, even though it showed support for Cyprus joining NATO's Partnership for Peace. The Movement for Social Democracy (EDEK), together with DIKO, constitute the so-called "space in-between" (ενδιάμεσος χώρος) in Cypriot politics, in that they strongly differentiate themselves from both the right-wing Democratic Rally and the left-wing AKEL.[13]

From 2000 to 2006, the party was led by Tassos Papadopoulos, who was President of Cyprus from 2003 to 2008. Papadopoulos was succeeded as DIKO leader by Marios Garoyian, who was President of the House of Representatives from 2008 to 2011. The party leadership was taken over by Nicolas Papadopoulos, son of Tassos, following an internal ballot in December 2013.[14]

The Democratic Party's traditional third place in legislative elections has allowed to it to assume the balance of power in parliament, where it has alternated between support for the communist Progressive Party of Working People (AKEL) and the conservative Democratic Rally (DISY). In the 2011 legislative election, the party won 15.8 percent of the vote and 9 out of 56 seats. The party's decision not to field a candidate in the 2013 presidential election and to back conservative leader Nicos Anastasiades instead was controversial amongst members, and contributed to Marios Garoyian's loss of the leadership to Nicolas Papadopoulos later in the year.[14]

During the Seventh European Parliament, the sole DIKO MEP was attached to the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats group.[15]

Party leaders

No. Leader Portrait Term of office President
style="background:Шаблон:Party color; color:white;" | 1 Spyros Kyprianou Файл:Spyros Kyprianou UN (cropped).jpg 1976 2000 1977–1988
style="background:Шаблон:Party color; color:white;" | 2 Tassos Papadopoulos Файл:Tassos Papadopoulos.jpg 2000 2006 2003–2008
style="background:Шаблон:Party color; color:white;" | 3 Marios Garoyian Файл:Marios Garoyian (cropped).jpg 2006 2013
style="background:Шаблон:Party color; color:white;" | 4 Nikolas Papadopoulos Файл:Nikolas Papadopoulos.jpg 2013 Incumbent

Election results

Parliament

House of Representatives
Election Votes Seats
# % Rank # ±
1976 With AKEL and EDEKШаблон:Efn Шаблон:Composition bar compact new
1981 56,749 19.50 3rd Шаблон:Composition bar compact Шаблон:Decrease 13
1985 88,322 27.65 2nd Шаблон:Composition bar compact Шаблон:Increase 8
1991 66,867 19.55 3rd Шаблон:Composition bar compact Шаблон:Decrease 5
1996 60,726 16.43 3rd Шаблон:Composition bar compact Шаблон:Decrease 1
2001 60,977 14.84 3rd Шаблон:Composition bar compact Шаблон:Decrease 1
2006 75,429 17.92 3rd Шаблон:Composition bar compact Шаблон:Increase 2
2011 63,763 15.76 3rd Шаблон:Composition bar compact Шаблон:Decrease 2
2016 50,922 14.49 3rd Шаблон:Composition bar compact Шаблон:Steady 0
2021 40,395 11.29 3rd Шаблон:Composition bar compact Шаблон:Steady 0

European Parliament

European Parliament
Election Votes Seats
# % Rank # ±
2004 57.121 17.09 3rd Шаблон:Composition bar compact new
2009 37,625 12.28 3rd Шаблон:Composition bar compact Шаблон:Steady 0
2014 28,044 10.83 3rd Шаблон:Composition bar compact Шаблон:Steady 0
2019 38,756 13.80 3rd Шаблон:Composition bar compact Шаблон:Steady 0

References

Шаблон:Notelist Шаблон:Reflist

External links

Шаблон:Political parties in Cyprus