Kyriakos Tsimillis has been elected president of the Cyprus Greens (Movement of Ecologists – Citizens’ Cooperation), winning 71.5% of the vote at the party’s extraordinary pancyprian electoral congress, held on Saturday at the Journalists’ House in Nicosia. According to the official results, Elena Lymbouri Kozakou was elected deputy president with 62.9%, and Oz Karahan second vice-president with 72.9%. The party congratulated those elected and all the candidates who took part in the process, saying it would continue on its path with a focus on unity, organisational strengthening and collective effort to advance its principles and policies.
Who is the new leader
Tsimillis was born in Nicosia and studied chemistry at the University of Athens, earning his degree in 1971 and his doctorate in 1977. He went on to teach at the university’s School of Physics and Mathematics and later at schools in Cyprus. From 1982 to 2013 he worked in standardisation, certification and accreditation, serving as director of the Cyprus Organisation for the Promotion of Quality from 2009 to 2013, while also taking part in European programmes and representing Cypriot scientific and environmental bodies.
Environmental protection has been central to his activism. He has been involved in organisations and initiatives including the Friends of Akamas, the Federation of Environmental Organisations and the Cyprus Anti-Nuclear Platform. A founding member of the party, he has served on its central and political committees and as first vice-president, coordinating its committee on the Cyprus problem. He has also represented the party on the National Council and in its political group on the Cyprus problem. In local government, he served as a Nicosia municipal councillor from 2017 to 2024 and chaired the municipality’s environment committee. He has written for the press since 1985 and has authored scientific papers on quality assurance, the environment and cultural heritage.
Source: CNA
