ROMSO Cyprus Knowledge Base

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The The Parliamentary Period was the eighth period of the House of Representatives of Cyprus. It began on 7 June 2001 and ended on 31 May 2006. The composition of the House of Representatives for the VIII Parliamentary Period arose through the 2001 Parliamentary Elections.

Election of Speaker of Parliament
In the first session of the House of Representatives during the VIII Parliamentary Period (7 June 2001), an election was held to declare the body's president. The chairman of the body was the elder of the Members Vasos Rabissarides.

Members have put forward a nomination:

Dimitris Christofias (on behalf of AKEL)
Nikos Anastasiades (on behalf of DISY)

The first round of voting shall elect the candidate who shall obtain more than 50% of the vote. Dimitris Christofias secured 33 votes (20 from AKEL, 9 from DIKO, 4 from EDEK) and was elected Speaker of the House. Nikos Anastasiades secured the 19 votes of DISY. The MPs of the monohedral parties NEO, EDE, ADIC and Ecologists abstained.

Parliamentary Composition
The following table shows the distribution of the 56 seats of parliament by party and constituency as it emerged based on the results of the 2001 parliamentary elections and as concluded after changes came (moving MPs to other parties).

Final composition
The following table shows in alphabetical order the Members of the House of Representatives during the VIII Parliamentary Period.

Notes:
1After the election of Tassos Papadopoulos as President of the Republic of Cyprus in the 2003 presidential election, Andreas Angelidis took his place in parliament on 6 March 2003 as the next runner-up of the Dikos in the Lefkosia Electoral District.
2After the appointment of George Lilikas in the position of Minister of Commerce, Industry and Tourism, Adamos Adamou took his place in parliament on 6 March 2008 as the next runner-up of AKEL in the Lefkosia Electoral District. After the election of Adamos Adamos in the position of MEP in the 2004 European elections, Stella Demetriou took his place in parliament on 20 July 2004 as the next runner-up of AKEL in the Lefkosia Electoral District.
3After the election of Panayiotis Demetrios in the position of Member of the European Parliament in the 2004 European elections, on 20 July 2004 Kaitis Cleridos took his place as the next runner-up of DISY in the Lefkosia Electoral District.
4After the election of Marios Matsakis in the position of MEP in the 2004 European elections, Athena Kyriakidou took her place in the parliament on 20 July 2004 as the next runner-up of the DIKOs in the Limassol Electoral District.
5After the appointment of Markos Kyprianou in the position of Minister of Finance, Neophytos Konstantinos took his place in parliament on 6 March 2003 as the next runner-up of DIKOs in the Lefkosia Electoral District.
6After the appointment of Donos Theodoros in the position of Minister of Justice and Public Order, he took his place in parliament on 6 March 200