Cypriot president sees off rival for second term

Nicos Anastasiades, the Cypriot president, yesterday won re-election for a second term, seeing off a leftist challenger with vows to restart talks to unify the island and cement an economic recovery.

The official final result after a second round run-off put the conservative incumbent on 55.99 per cent of the vote in the Greek-majority European Union member, ahead of Stavros Malas, his communist-backed challenger, on 44 per cent.