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Voting for the election of the members of the House of Representatives has smoothly begun at 7:00 a.m. Overall, 557,836 individuals have the right to vote. Isolated issues have occurred regarding the attendance of a small number of assistant employees, which were immediately addressed by the Returning Officers with their replacement.

Ballots opened at 1.150 polling stations operating in the Republic of Cyprus and at six stations in Greece. Nine mobile polling stations have also begun operating, covering the voters who have registered in the special electoral list for positive COVID-19 cases. The number of these voters is 91.

At 10:00 a.m. four polls are expected to open in London.

Voting runs smoothly, without any problems and will continue until 12 noon. After one hour’s interval, voting will resume at 1p.m. and end at 6p.m., when polls will be closed both in the Republic and abroad.

As Chief Returning Officer I invite all voters to proceed to the polls in order to exercise their right to vote and declare in a responsible manner their choice.

We will be briefing citizens regularly on the progress of the voting process.

A video of the Chief Returning Officer's statement may be viewed here.

A transcript of the statement in Turkish may be viewed here.

(EK/EH)