The Ministry of Interior is working intensively to successfully organize the Municipal and community elections in Cyprus, which will take place on 18 December 2011 and will cost about 5,5 million euros, according to the Head of the Election Service of the Ministry of the Interior, Demetris Demetriou.

Demetriou told CNA that the total number of registered voters is 546.11, of whom 12.343 are citizens from member states of the European Union.

All citizens of the Republic of Cyprus as well as those of other EU member states aged 18 years and over, who normally reside in Cyprus, have the right to vote in the forthcoming local authority elections.

Most of the citizens from member states of the EU are Greeks and British. The number of voters from Greece is 4.382 and from Britain 4.639. Most of the EU citizens live in the district of Paphos, on the west. The new registered voters in these elections are approximately 12.000.

The submission of Municipalities` candidacies will be made on November 17 and those of the communities` on November 21.