Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades, who led the country's recovery following an economic crisis in 2013, won a second five-year term Feb. 4, Reuters reported the same day.
Anastasiades won 56% of the votes, beating the 44% garnered by his leftist-backed opponent, Stavros Malas.
"A new day dawns tomorrow which requires unity, because that is required to move forward," Anastasiades said in the Reuters report. "I will continue to be a president for all Cypriots. Tonight, there are no winners or losers, there is (only) a Cyprus for all of us."
The country was plunged into crisis in 2013, during Anastasiades' first term, due to its exposure to debt-ridden Greece and fiscal downturn under the previous leftist administration.
The president steered recovery efforts, which included recapitalizing banks by seizing uninsured deposits. In 2016, Cyprus emerged from a bailout program from the EU and International Monetary Fund.
Anastasiades also led peace negotiations with the separatist Turkish-Cypriot controlled north after talks collapsed in 2017, Reuters reported.
