reens
1.95%; seats by party - AKEL (Communist) 18, DISY 18, DIKO 11, KISOS
4, EDEK 4, EURO.KO 4, Greens 1; area administered by Turkish
Cypriots: Assembly of the Republic - percent of vote by party - CTP
35.8%, UBP 32.3%, Peace and Democratic Movement 13.4%, DP 12.3%;
seats by party - CTP 19, UBP 18, Peace and Democratic Movement 6, DP
7; note - "TRNC" seats by party as of September 2006 - CTP 25, OP 3,
UBP 13, DP 6, BDH 1, independents 2

Judicial branch:
Supreme Court (judges are appointed jointly by the president and
vice president)
note: there is also a Supreme Court in the area administered by
Turkish Cyriots

Political parties and leaders:
area under government control: Democratic Party or DIKO [Marios
KAROYIAN]; Democratic Rally or DISY [Nikos ANASTASIADHIS]; European
Democracy or EURO.DI [Prodromos PRODROMOU] (evolved from For Europe
which merged with New Horizons); European Party or EURO.KO [Demetris
SYLLOURIS]; Fighting Democratic Movement or ADIK [Dinos
MIKHAILIDIS]; Green Party of Cyprus [George PERDIKIS]; Movement for
Social Democrats or EDEK [Yannakis OMIROU]; Political Movement of
Hunters [Michalis PAFITANIS]; Progressive Party of the Working
People or AKEL (Communist Party) [Dimitrios CHRISTOFIAS]; United
Democrats or EDI [Michalis PAPAPETROU]; area administered by Turkish
Cypriots: Communal Liberation Party or TKP [Huseyin ANGOLEMLI];
Cyprus Socialist Party or KSP [Kazim ONGEN]; Democratic Party or DP
[Serder DENKTASH]; Freedom and Reform Party or OP [Turgay AVCI];
National Unity Party or UBP [Tahsin ERTUGRULOGLU]; Nationalist
Justice Party or MAP [Ata TEPE]; New Party or YP [Huseyin TURAN];
Our Party or BP [Okyay SADIKOGLU]; Patriotic Unity Movement or YBH
[Oguz OZEN]; Peace and Democratic Movement or BDH [Mustafa AKINCI];
Renewal Progress Party or YAP [Ertugrul HASIPOGLU]; Republican
Turkish Party or CTP [Ferdi Sabit SOYER]; United Cyprus Party or BKP
[Isset IZCAN]

Political pressure groups and leaders:
Confederation of Cypriot Workers or SEK (pro-West); Confederation
of Revolutionary Labor Unions or Dev-Is; Federation of Turkish
Cypriot Labor Unions or Turk-Sen; Pan-Cyprian Labor Federation or
PEO (Communist controlled)

International organization participation:
Australia Group, C, CE, EBRD, EIB, EU, FAO, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC,
ICCt, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU,
ISO, ITU, ITUC, MIGA,