Our View: Farcical Aglandjia by-election a waste of public funds

The election of deputy mayor Aglandjia was the farce everyone expected. It is no wonder that it recorded what is probably the lowest ever turnout for any election at 27.73 per cent. In numbers, of the 15,182 registered voters, only 4,210 showed up to vote, and the newly-elected deputy mayor, Andri Hadjiandreou took 2,309 votes (55.49 per cent); the candidate of Disy, Diko and Elam, Prokopis Prokopiou took 1,852 votes.

Hadjiandreou had been backed by Akel, Alma, Edek, Dipa, the Ecologists and...