Vartkes Mahtesian to serve as Armenian representative to Cypriot parliament

PanARMENIAN.Net - Candidacies for the Cyprus parliamentary elections of May 22 will be submitted on Tuesday, May 3, for the 56 seats of the House of Representatives and the three seats for the religious groups of the Latins, Maronites and Armenians.

Parliamentary elections take place every five years, for the 56 seat House. This will be the 10th parliamentary poll since the Republic of Cyprus was established in 1960. Polling day has been set for May 22. Cypriot nationals who live abroad will also be able to vote.

According to the 1960 Constitution, 50 deputies are elected to the House. In June 1985, the House by a unanimous decision increased this number to 80 (56 from the Greek Cypriot community and 24 from the Turkish Cypriot community by virtue of the Law of Necessity.

Armenians, Maronites and Latins, who belong to the Greek Cypriot community, elect their representatives to the House, who do not have the right to vote. Vartkes Mahtesian was elected representative of the Armenian religious group, Antonis Hatzirousos of the Maronite group and Benito Mantovani representative of the Latins, Financial Mirror reported.