Anastasiades Wins Cyprus Presidential Race, Exit Polls Show

Nicos Anastasiades, leader of Cyprus’s main opposition Disy party, was poised to win his bid to become the country’s seventh president as Cypriots voted to choose a savior for their crisis-ravaged economy.

Anastasiades, 66, was seen winning between 58 percent and 62 percent of the vote, according to an exit poll by private broadcaster ANT1 today. He got between 57.5 percent and 61.5 percent in a poll by state broadcaster RIK, between 57 percent and 60 percent in a survey by private Mega TV and between 58.6 percent and 62.6 percent of the vote in a poll by Sigma.