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| | Embassy Of Cyprus Newsletter, Washington DC (June 10, 1996) |
 | | Parliamentary elections held on May 26 saw a coalition of the right-wing DISY and the Liberal Party win the largest number of seats, 20, the same number of seats they won in the 1991 elections. |
 | | The second largest party in the House, the left-wing AKEL party, added a seat to its 1991 count for a total of 19, while the center-right Democratic Party (DIKO) took 10 seats, one less than in 1991. |
 | | Thesocialist EDEK party now has five seats, having lost two, and the Free Democrats Movement (KED), which contested elections for the first time, won two seats, one by its leader, former Cyprus President George Vassiliou. |
| www.hri.org /news/cyprus/cyemb/96-06-10.cyemb.html (2057 words) |
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