📰 Nicoletta Konstantinou becomes Paphos' first woman MP after DISY victory
Nicoletta Konstantinou has been elected as Paphos' first woman MP, winning a seat for DISY in Sunday's parliamentary elections. She received 3,608 votes, finishing second on the DISY ticket behind Charalambos Pazaros, who topped the Paphos ballot with 4,609 votes. Other leading candidates were DIKO’s Chrysanthos Savvides with 4,832 votes and AKEL’s Valentinos Fakontis with 3,943.
Born in Paphos on 28 February 1986, Konstantinou is a lawyer and law lecturer. She holds a law degree from City University London, an LLM in Commercial and Corporate Law from University College London and completed the Legal Practice Course at the Inns of Court School of Law in 2008. Since September 2024 she has been a PhD candidate in the Law Department at the University of Cyprus, teaches at Neapolis University Paphos Law School, and has been a member of the Cyprus Bar since 2009. An accredited mediator and approved arbitrator, she has been politically active through MAKI, Protoporia UK, NEDISY, ONE and DISY, serves on DISY’s expanded Political Bureau and has held the Immigration portfolio in the Government Work Monitoring Council since November 2024. She is the daughter of long-serving DISY MP Kostakis Konstantinou.
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