Cypriots were voting for a new president Sunday in an election seen as pivotal to the decades-old search for a deal to reunify the ethnically divided island.
The election is billed as either a confidence vote in or a repudiation of center-right incumbent Tassos Papadopoulos, 74, who led the 2004 rejection of a U.N. reunification plan. The division of Cyprus has also proven a major stumbling block to Turkey's efforts to join the European Union.
Polls suggest a close three-way race between Papadopoulos and two rivals: Demetris Christofias, 61, head of the reformed communist AKEL party, and former Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides, 59, of the right-wing DISY …
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