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TRNC EARLY GENERAL ELECTIONS
HELD
TRNC Early General
Elections took place yesterday (20 February 2005).
The unofficial
preliminary results announced by the High Electoral Council are as follows:
Total number of ballot
boxes : 575
Total number of counted
ballot boxes : 575
Total number of
registered voters :147249
Total number of voters
casting their votes :119009
Total number of valid
votes :1294009
Election participation rate : 80.82%
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Votes
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% |
Seats |
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CTP-BG (Republican Turkish
Party-United Forces)
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577444 |
44.51 |
24 |
| TKP
(People’s Independence Party) |
31210 |
2.41 |
0 |
| DP
(Democratic Party) |
174721 |
13.47 |
6 |
| MAP
(National Justice Party) |
6519 |
0.50 |
0 |
| YP
(New Party) |
20832 |
1.61 |
0 |
| BDH
(Peace and Democracy Movement) |
75747 |
5.84 |
1 |
| UBP
(National Unity Party) |
410813 |
31.67 |
19 |
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Independent candidates |
58 |
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SERDAR
DENKTAS’ LETTER TO KOFI ANNAN
Deputy Prime Minister
and Minister for Foreign Affairs Serdar Denktas, in his letter dated 17
February 2005 to Kofi Annan, expressed that the Turkish Cypriot side was
ready to work for a Cyprus settlement under the auspices of the UN and that
the Greek Cypriot side should also announce that they were ready for a
settlement.
Reminding that the
Turkish Cypriot side had accepted the Annan plan Serdar Denktas stated "it
was now for the Greek Cypriot side to convince the world, in general, and
the Turkish Cypriot side, in particular, that their overwhelming rejection
was not a demonstration of their total refusal of a settlement based on
power sharing and equality".
Serdar Denktas stressed
in his letter that "the Turkish Cypriot side fully supported Kofi Annan’s
request that the Greek Cypriot leader Tassos Papadopoulos should put the
Greek Cypriot side’s final comments in writing and clarify its objections to
the plan." Continuing, Serdar Denktas pointed out that in order to resume
the negotiations, the Greek Cypriot side should take a step and clarify in
detail its objections to the plan and that the efforts made and the steps
taken by the Secretary-General and supported by the Turkish Cypriot side
towards resuming the talks, would demonstrate if the Greek Cypriot side was
truly sincere in resuming negotiations. He added that as the pro-settlement
side, the Turkish Cypriots believe that the Secretary-General’s call on the
Greek Cypriot side deserved a full support.
Explaining that he
personally started contacts with the resident Ambassadors of the UN Security
Council member states in Cyprus, Serdar Denktas stated in his letter that
his initiatives towards urging the Security Council members to extend their
active backing to the Secretary-General’s efforts would continue.
Serdar Denktas
continued his letter by saying: "I only hope that the Greek Cypriot
leadership realizes before long that the only way to solve the Cyprus
question is to compromise under UN auspices for a mutually beneficial
settlement and starts cooperating towards that end. As the Turkish Cypriot
people and leadership, we stand ready to extend the necessary contribution
to a mutually acceptable agreement based on political equality however, it
would be unfair to expect the Turkish Cypriot people to indefinitely await a
resolution and be committed to an uncertain future under the all-out
restrictions that have been weighing so heavily on their political economic
and social life until the Greek Cypriot side deems the time ripe for
dictating its terms for the settlement of the Cyprus issue." |
