Is the Cyprus desk live on Nation Runner?

Yes. It draws IPU Parline, Cyprus House of Representatives, election of 24 May 2026, the Robert Schuman Foundation results table for 24 May 2026, and the CIA World Leaders list for Cyprus, updated 22 September 2026. It is an editorial dashboard, not an official record.

Which culture figures does the Cyprus desk show?

Gallup’s Migrant Acceptance Index for Cyprus in 2016 (5.41 out of 9) and the Migrant Integration Policy Index score of 41, with 2024 printed beside that score. No Pew row for Cyprus is on the perceptions page, so none is added here.

Does the money tab score political donations in Cyprus?

No. Zeros mean the access scale is not filled. A zero is not a finding that a party has no donors.

Country desk · updated 12 Nov

Cyprus

56 seats, and Democratic Rally holds 17.

Key takeaways

1
Parliament. Democratic Rally holds the most seats: 17 of 56 (30%). A majority needs 29.
2
Headlines. The tone is brightening: 12% of the last 14 days' headlines read grim, 12% upbeat. Top topic: Politics (34%).
3
Government. Government barometer 60/100 (Builder). 0 of 2 moves on file read as smart, 0 as harmful.

Headline mood · 14 days

Line: mood · bars: stories

12 Nov · 5 stories · leaning upbeat1 upbeat · 4 neutral · 0 grim

What the headlines are about

Other 44%
Politics 34%
Security 12%
Economy 10%

A simple word-list estimate from the daily wire headlines. Not a judgement.

Who holds the seats · House of Representatives

56 seats · 29 for a majority (line)

Democratic Rally

17 seats · 30.4%

17 of 56 seats. IPU Parline lists 17 seats for the Democratic Rally. The Schuman Foundation table prints 27.1 percent of the vote on 24 May 2026. The CyBC poll of March 2026, before the vote, printed 18 percent with undecided voters still in the base.

Map · mood compared

Cyprus

Overall mood: 12% grim, 12% upbeat · today +20

What changed today

12 Nov

12 Nov: 5 stories (average 3); tone more upbeat than usual.

New headlines

Free Cyprus Graffiti Appears Across European Cities
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UnverifiedTrending on X · 11 Nov
Athienou council presses leaders to open crossing point
Athienou municipal council on Wednesday issued a statement expressing its disappointment that the Athienou to Pyroi crossing point did not materialise after Monday’s negotiations. The statement repeats the benefits that opening the crossing would bring and calls on both President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman to reconsider the issue and bring it […]
Cyprus Mail · 11 Nov
Mavroyiannis: I will run to win or not at all
Former negotiator Andreas Mavroyiannis has said he will only stand in the 2028 presidential election if he believes he can win. Speaking to Sigma, Mavroyiannis commented that “If I run for office, I want to run to win, it will not be a symbolic candidacy.” Mavroyiannis said he has not made a final decision, and […]
Cyprus Mail · 11 Nov
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Philenews · 11 Nov
Former Paphos bishop undermines warm ties with Vatican
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Financial Mirror · 10 Nov

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Cyprus Mail · 2 Nov
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Philenews · 2 Nov
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Cyprus Mail · 2 Nov
Iran: contacts over ending war continue after talks finish with no breakthrough
Contacts between Iran and the United States to end their eight-month war are continuing, Tehran said on Monday, after days of Iranian talks with Qatari mediators ended with altered proposals but no breakthrough. “Consultations through mediators are very intensive. We have presented our conditions and proposals and everything depends on the political rationality of Washington,” […]
Cyprus Mail · 3 Nov
Trump approval near record low ahead of elections
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Cyprus Mail · 3 Nov
Girl beaten by classmates at Nicosia school
An 11-year-old girl has been admitted to the hospital after allegedly being beaten up by five of her classmates at a Nicosia elementary school. According to local media reports, the girl’s father said that she had been attacked by her foreign classmates on two separate occasions, with the first incident occurring two weeks ago and […]
Cyprus Mail · 4 Nov
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Philenews · 4 Nov
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Cyprus Mail · 4 Nov
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Cyprus Mail · 5 Nov

Headlines and summaries come from the linked sources; the selection is automatic.

Go deeper

Parties, people, promises, money

Seats 24 May 2026 · votes at that election

56 seats, and Democratic Rally holds 17.

The seat map is IPU Parline, Cyprus House of Representatives, election of 24 May 2026. It shows 56 seats: Democratic Rally 17, Progressive Party of Working People 15, National Popular Front 8, Democratic Party 8, Alma – Citizens for Cyprus 4, Direct Democracy Cyprus 4. A majority of 56 is 29. The 24 seats reserved for Turkish Cypriots have stayed empty, so the House sits with 56 members. Vote shares are from the Robert Schuman Foundation results table for 24 May 2026. They are a share of votes cast, not a share of seats.

A score on this desk is an editorial average of six work topics, times ten, with the method written on the row.

The room

House of Representatives

56 seats · 29 to govern alone · Democratic Party 8

The deal

A president with ministers outside the House, and one party in his camp

Cyprus elects its president separately. Ministers do not sit in the House. 29 seats would be a majority of 56. DIKO, with 8 seats, is the House party the Schuman report names among those supporting President Christodoulides; the other five parties hold 48.

The mood

Election vs now

The left bar is the vote share. The right bar is seats divided by 56. They are different counts.

DISY
18.0%
AKEL
18.0%
ELAM
11.5%
DIKO
7.5%
ALMA
7.5%
ADK
5.5%

The first point is the 2021 House election as the House of Representatives publishes it: Democratic Rally 27.77, AKEL 22.34, DIKO 11.29 and ELAM 6.78 percent, rounded here. The second point is the CyBC telephone poll of 1,402 voters on 10–26 March 2026, which still counted undecided and abstaining people, so its shares are lower. The third point is the 2026 result as the Schuman Foundation table prints it.

The trend

From election night to now

Public pollster blend — not a forecast

The split

Seat share beside the vote share

The right bar is seats divided by 56. The left bar is the vote share. The electoral system means the two differ.

The mismatch

Seats they hold vs the poll

The seat bar is seats divided by 56. The other bar is the CyBC poll of 10–26 March 2026.

The rude gauge

Growth king or a fight with work

Who grows the pie, who picks a fight with work. Cabinet sits at 60 / 100. The number is an editorial reading, not an official index. Six topics are averaged and multiplied by ten: energy supply, hiring, keeping and investing money, building, hours in paid work, and paperwork. Ten means the public record makes that easier for work. Zero means it makes it harder. The band is a label for that average, not a court ruling.

Against the workBuilderGrowth king

Full causal chains live on every promise

This week

The pulse

House2026-06-04

House president

Annita Demetriou was re-elected President of the House with 29 votes in the second round.

Government2026-08-06

Reshuffle

New ministers for transport and agriculture and new deputy ministers for social welfare and culture were sworn in.

Politics 101

How this country actually works

What this chamber drawing is

56 seats. 29 to govern alone.

Who holds the offices this desk names

Nikos Christodoulides, President of the Republic; Makis Keravnos, Minister of Finance.

Office holders come from the CIA World Leaders list for Cyprus, updated 22 September 2026. Party leaders are named from the press reports linked on each bio.

How foreigners are seen

Openness in Cyprus

Published surveys only. Each figure shows its source and year.

Who's welcomed

Share of adults in Cyprus with a favourable opinion of each country Pew asked about. A view of a country, not of its people.

How would my country be seen here?

UnknownNo country view on file

Pew's 2025 Global Attitudes survey did not poll in Cyprus, and no other survey of views of other countries is on this desk yet. Nothing is guessed. The other measures here, and the comparison below, still work.

Welcoming index

Derived from the two published measures below, not a survey result. Each input keeps its own year.

50.6/100

Mean of Gallup 5.41 of 9 (2016), rescaled to 60.1, and MIPEX 41 of 100 (2024).

The measures behind it (shown separately)

5.41/9People: acceptance of migrants
Gallup, 2016

41/100Law: integration policy
MIPEX, 2024

What expats say

InterNations Expat Insider 2025: rank out of 46 destinations, 1 is best.

Ease of settling in10 of 46
Culture and welcome9 of 46
Local friendliness16 of 46
Finding friends12 of 46

InterNations, Expat Insider 2025

All desks side by side

Pick a measure. Countries without a published figure show Unknown and sit at the end; they are not counted in the average.

Average of the 20 of 22 desks with a figure: 63.3 of 100. Unknown left out: Georgia, Thailand.

In plain words

Expats ranked Cyprus 10 of 46 for ease of settling in (2025); its best sub-score was culture and welcome at 9.
No published survey here asks people about other countries, so who's welcomed is unknown for this country.

Sources and method are listed under “How we source this” at the bottom of the page.

What it means for you

Only figures with a source and a date. Each source is listed under “How we source this” at the bottom of the page. Anything not listed here is not on file.

Taxes
The summary says the standard rate in Cyprus is 19 percent, with reduced rates of 9, 5 and 3 percent.
Pay
Decree 427/2025 sets the minimum monthly wage at €1,088 for full-time work from 1 January 2026, and €979 until a worker has six months of continuous work with the same employer.
Business
As of the 2026 tax year the corporate income tax rate rose from 12.5 to 15 percent. Corporate income tax is the tax on company profits.

Sources, licences and image credits

Data

Wire (public RSS feeds): X, Cyprus Mail, Philenews, Financial Mirror.
The left bar is the vote share. The right bar is seats divided by 56. They are different counts.
Editorial economic-competence gauge, not a court and not a Nobel. Six axes: energy, hiring, capital, building, hours in work, red tape. Scores are a judgement from public records of this term and the last — not a bribery charge, not a voting recommendation.

Survey sources

Cyprus — Gallup Migrant Acceptance Index 2016: Gallup. Neli Esipova, John Fleming and Julie Ray, “New Index Shows Least-, Most-Accepting Countries for Migrants”, Gallup, 23 August 2017. The full-country table lists Cyprus at 5.41. The survey-methods note says the index was asked in 138 countries in 2016, so the year used here is 2016. Source. Gallup allows a contextual citation when the publication date and a link are given. The table and graphics are not reproduced.
Cyprus — MIPEX overall score 2024: MIPEX. Migrant Integration Policy Index, Cyprus country page. The block headed 2024 prints “MIPEX Score (with Health): 41” and the label “Integration denied”. Source. The overall score is cited from the country page. The report is not reproduced.

Image credits

Democratic Rally mark — Nation Runner · Original geometric mark. Not an official party logo. Public domain. Source
Progressive Party of Working People mark — Nation Runner · Original geometric mark. Not an official party logo. Public domain. Source
National Popular Front mark — Nation Runner · Original geometric mark. Not an official party logo. Public domain. Source
Democratic Party mark — Nation Runner · Original geometric mark. Not an official party logo. Public domain. Source
Alma – Citizens for Cyprus mark — Nation Runner · Original geometric mark. Not an official party logo. Public domain. Source
Direct Democracy Cyprus mark — Nation Runner · Original geometric mark. Not an official party logo. Public domain. Source
Council of Ministers (no House seat) mark — Nation Runner · Original geometric mark. Not an official party logo. Public domain. Source
Flag of Cyprus — Wikimedia Commons · Public domain Source

Questions the desk actually answers

FAQ

Questions the desk actually answers

Is the Cyprus desk live on Nation Runner?: Yes. It draws IPU Parline, Cyprus House of Representatives, election of 24 May 2026, the Robert Schuman Foundation results table for 24 May 2026, and the CIA World Leaders list for Cyprus, updated 22 September 2026. It is an editorial dashboard, not an official record.
Which culture figures does the Cyprus desk show?: Gallup’s Migrant Acceptance Index for Cyprus in 2016 (5.41 out of 9) and the Migrant Integration Policy Index score of 41, with 2024 printed beside that score. No Pew row for Cyprus is on the perceptions page, so none is added here.
Does the money tab score political donations in Cyprus?: No. Zeros mean the access scale is not filled. A zero is not a finding that a party has no donors.

How we source this

Seats: IPU Parline, Cyprus House of Representatives, election of 24 May 2026. Votes: the Robert Schuman Foundation results table for 24 May 2026. Ballot support: CyBC poll, 10–26 Mar 2026; House election 2026. Offices: the CIA World Leaders list for Cyprus, updated 22 September 2026. Culture: Gallup 2016 and the Migrant Integration Policy Index block headed 2024.

How foreigners are seen

Pew asks adults for their opinion of a country. That is a view of the country, not of its people or of any visitor. We never estimate a pair that was not asked; it shows as unknown.

InterNations ranks come from expats living in the country (46 destinations in 2025). Gallup's Migrant Acceptance Index runs from 0 to 9. MIPEX scores integration law and policy from 0 to 100.

Welcoming index: the mean of the Gallup index rescaled to 0–100 (score ÷ 9 × 100) and the MIPEX overall score, rounded to one decimal. It is derived, not a survey result, and the two inputs come from different years. If either input is missing the index is unknown: it is not estimated, it sorts last and it is left out of the average.

What it means for you

PwC Worldwide Tax Summaries, Cyprus, other taxes, data as of 2026-08-04
Cyprus Council of Ministers, Decree 427/2025 (Minimum Wages Law, Cap. 183), data as of 2026-01-01
EY Global Tax News, Cyprus enacts major tax reform legislation (7 January 2026), data as of 2026-01-07