Presidential Elections
Following his return to Cyprus in 1997 he ran for office in the February 1998 presidential election as an independent candidate supported by the political parties AKEL and DIKO. He lost, by a narrow margin, to the incumbent President of the Republic, Glafcos Clerides. On 1 March 2003 he was appointed Foreign Minister in the new government of President Tassos Papadopoulos. He served as Foreign Minister until June 2006. In October 2006 he was appointed as High Commissioner to United Kingdom.
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“Under a Presidential government, a nation has, except at the electing moment, no influence; it has not the ballot-box before it; its virtue is gone, and it must wait till its instant of despotism again returns.”
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