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At the legislative elections on 27 May 2001, the party won 34.7% of the popular vote and 20 out of 56 seats. After this election, AKEL's General Secretary, Dimitris Christofias, was elected as President of the House of Representatives and until 2006, for first time in the History of Republic of Cyprus. Besides AKEL, he was supported by Movement for Social Democracy (EDEK) and Democratic Party (DIKO).
It is a member of the European United Left - Nordic Green Left in the European Parliament and it is considered as moderately eurosceptic. Cyprus joined the EU in 2004. In the 2004 European election, AKEL elected 2 members; Adamos Adamou and Kyriacos Triantaphyllides.
AKEL remained the largest political party on the island in the 2006 Cypriot legislative elections, however the party lost two seats in the parliament winning 18 seats with 31.31% of the votes.
In the second round presidential election held on 24 February 2008, General Secretary of AKEL Dimitris Christofias was elected President of the Republic of Cyprus. Official figures showed a win of 53.36% of the vote against his right-wing opponent Ioannis Kasoulidis' 46.64%.
On 21 January 2009, Andros Kyprianou was elected general secretary of the party with 54.3% in the central committee election.
In the last election for the European Parliament which took place in June 2009, AKEL managed to gain 34.9% of the votes and elected 2 out of the 6 members, Kyriacos Triantaphyllides and Takis Hadjigeorgiou.
On 22 May 2011, the Cypriot legislative election took place. AKEL gained 32.67% of the votes and elected 19 out of the 56 members of parliament.
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