| | The European Elections June 10th 13th 2004 |
 | | The two parties of the governmental coalition, Akel and Disy (the party of the President of the Republic), together garnered 44.89% of the vote and four out of six of the Cyprian seats in the European Parliament. |
 | | It is important to note, as highlighted earlier, that the positive results received by sovereignist and euro-skeptic parties in Austria, Lithuania, Poland, and the United Kingdom actually stopped opposition parties from fully benefiting from the effect of what became the principal driver of these European elections: the sanction vote. |
 | | Europeans are asked to perform the difficult task of electing members to a parliamentary assembly of uncertain and variable stature, demonstrated by the inequality of salaries paid to elected officials and the incompatibility of rules pertaining to the length of mandates. |
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