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Obstructed55/100

In the 2024 European Parliament election, three of the twelve competing lists carried a Turkish Cypriot candidate — AKEL, Volt, and the Ecologists. These names are reported by the press and independently matched by SWP. In 2019 the AKEL list also carried a Turkish Cypriot candidate. No record was located for earlier years.12

Basis and sources

Legal anchor Article 20(2)(b) and Article 22(2) TFEU; Article 39 of the Charter

Sources for this criterion

  1. 1. Parties announce candidates for the June 2024 EP electionB — institutional / reported · Cyprus Mail · 2024-04-24
  2. 2. Erol Kaymak, European Elections and their Implications for the Cyprus Issue: Populist Challenges and Turkish Cypriot Inclusion, SWP Comment No. 28B — institutional / reported · Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik · July 2024

Status partially addressedWeight 3/5Score 55

Sources

  1. Parties announce candidates for the June 2024 EP electionB — institutional / reportedCyprus Mail · 2024-04-24A Cyprus Mail news report on political parties announcing their candidates, including Turkish Cypriot candidates, for the June 2024 European Parliament election.Cyprus Mail, 24 April 2024 — names three Turkish Cypriot EP candidates on three lists (AKEL, Volt, Ecologists) for June 2024https://cyprus-mail.com/2024/04/24/mep-candidates-for-june-elections-submit-bids/
  2. Erol Kaymak, European Elections and their Implications for the Cyprus Issue: Populist Challenges and Turkish Cypriot Inclusion, SWP Comment No. 28B — institutional / reportedStiftung Wissenschaft und Politik · July 2024A commentary by researcher Erol Kaymak, published by Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik as SWP Comment No. 28, on European elections and Turkish Cypriot inclusion in the Cyprus issue.SWP Comment No. 28, July 2024, Table 1. Author is a Turkish Cypriot political scientist (Eastern Mediterranean University; CATS Fellow at SWP), recorded per the editorial doctrine's independence rule; his 2019 and 2024 turnout figures are sourced by him to Kathimerini Cyprus, 17 June 2024, not to an official returnhttps://www.swp-berlin.org/publications/products/comments/2024C28_EPElectionsCyprus.pdf