{"id":9597,"date":"2024-04-25T15:01:32","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T12:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ch.jfdi.cc\/?p=9597"},"modified":"2024-04-25T15:01:32","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T12:01:32","slug":"local-elections-paphos-prepares-for-fundamental-changes-updated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ch.jfdi.cc\/?p=9597","title":{"rendered":"Local elections: , \u00a0Paphos prepares for fundamental changes (Updated)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ch.jfdi.cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/local-elections-paphos-prepares-for-fundamental-changes-updated.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>Candidacies are being submitted for local elections in the Paphos district<\/strong> on Thursday, with the elections set to take place on June 9.<\/p>\n<div class=\"cypru-video-ads\" id=\"cypru-257380811\">\n<div id=\"cypru-237887877\" data-cypru-trackid=\"478051\" data-cypru-trackbid=\"1\" class=\"cypru-target\">\n<div id=\"gpt-ad-6335782595743-0\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>June\u2019s elections will be the first to be held under Cyprus\u2019 new system of local government, with new roles created and municipalities clustered and combined.<br \/>\nFor the first time, each district, Paphos included, will have an elected governor. <strong>Paphos will also have four municipalities:<\/strong> the Paphos municipality, the Eastern Paphos municipality, the Western Paphos municipality, and the Polis Chrysochous municipality.<br \/>\nThe reduced number of municipalities mean areas have been absorbed by larger municipalities. The Paphos municipality itself remains unchanged, but, for example, the Eastern Paphos municipality consists of the former Yeroskipou municipality and the villages of Ayia Marinouda, Acheleia, Konia, and Timi.<br \/>\nMunicipalities are now divided into smaller sub-regions which each have their own deputy mayors.<br \/>\nKostas Konstantinou submitted his candidacy to become Paphos\u2019 district governor, saying the new local authority \u201c<strong>needs a personality who has experience<\/strong>, responsibility, and the requisite efficiency to be able to accomplish this mission.\u201d<br \/>\nIncumbent Paphos mayor Phedonas Phedonos submitted his candidacy for re-election, asking voters \u201cwith a pure heart and clean hands\u201d to \u201ccontinue together what we have achieved together, to <strong>make Paphos the most beautiful, greenest, and most modern town in Cyprus.\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\nHe also wished the people of Paphos a happy Easter. He is endorsed by Disy.<br \/>\nPaphos mayoral candidate Evros Loizides was the first major candidate to submit his candidacies, <strong>promising a \u201chuman-centred\u201d campaign<\/strong>.<br \/>\nLoizides served for 10 years as a town councillor. He is a member of Diko, and is endorsed by his own party, Akel, and Edek.<br \/>\nElsewhere, incumbent Polis Chrysochous mayor Yiotis Papachristofi submitted his candidacy for the mayoralty of the new, larger Polis Chrisochous municipality.<br \/>\nHe said that the incorporation of 13 new villages into the municipality will be a \u201cgreat challenge\u201d, and said he <strong>will give opportunities for young people to remain living in the area<\/strong>.<br \/>\nLater in the day, Nikos Palios submitted his candidacy for the Eastern Paphos mayoralty, calling on the area\u2019s residents to make a \u201chopeful new beginning\u201d and to \u201cbuild something completely new, healthier, and more modern\u201d in the new municipality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fact: Candidacies are being submitted for local elections in the Paphos district, with the elections set to take place on June 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