As voting centres for the Archbishop elections closed on Sunday at 6pm one exit poll put Bishop Athanasios of Limassol in the first position with up to 41 per cent of the vote.
Athanasios is showed to be the big winner, AlfaNews said after having conducted the exit poll with RAI Consultants. They estimated he would get between 36.2 and 41.2 per cent of the vote, followed by Isaias of Tamasos, then Georgios of Paphos, Vasilios of Famagusta, Neophytos of Morphou and finally Chrysostomos of Kyrenia.
The Holy Synod will decide among the top three of the popular vote who will become the next Archbishop in the coming days.
Counting of votes in each of the over 900 voting centres around the island began immediately with results expected within hours.
After three days have passed giving time for any objections to be made the Holy Synod will then have five days to decide on the next prelate.
However, there was not much interest among the voting public – all Orthodox Greek Cypriots on the electoral roll – as by lunchtime only 15 per cent had voted.
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