Cyprus in the register

Rules and sources

Disclosure threshold

€500

Legal framework

Principal law: Ο περί Πολιτικών Κομμάτων Νόμος του 2012 (Political Parties Law, N. 175(I)/2012), as amended by 12(I)/2015, 171(I)/2015, 35(I)/2018 and 187(I)/2021; lobbying is governed by Law 20(I)/2022 on transparency in public decision-making. Each party must publish on its own website by 30 June, and submit to the Έφορος (the Director-General of the Ministry of the Interior, who keeps the register of parties), a named list of the natural and legal persons who contributed more than EUR 500 in the previous year; the cap is EUR 50,000 per donor per year (EUR 5,000 in specific cases) and anonymous donations are prohibited. The Έφορος forwards the accounts to the Auditor General (Ελεγκτική Υπηρεσία), who checks them and publishes special reports; parliamentary parties receive state funding (15% shared equally, 85% in proportion to votes) and must file audited accounts within 10 months of the end of the financial year. There is no central online donations register: the data are scattered across party websites (PDF) and Audit Office reports.

Currency

EUR

Sources

• AKEL – list of private contributions above EUR 500 (Ιδιωτικές εισφορές άνω των 500€)AKEL (publication duty under Law 175(I)/2012) · 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 · 3,249 rows
• DISY – private contributions above EUR 500 (Ιδιωτικές εισφορές άνω των 500 ευρώ)Δημοκρατικός Συναγερμός (DISY) · 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 · 1,083 rows
• DIKO – contributions above EUR 500 (Εισφορές Δημοκρατικού Κόμματος άνω των 500 ευρώ), incl. its youth wing NEDIKΔημοκρατικό Κόμμα (DIKO) · 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 · 289 rows
• EDEK – contributions above EUR 500 (Εισφορές άνω των 500 ευρώ)ΕΔΕΚ Σοσιαλιστικό Κόμμα · 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 · 265 rows
• DIPA – table of contributions above EUR 500 under art. 5(6) of the Political Parties LawΔημοκρατική Παράταξη (DIPA); copies from the Internet Archive Wayback Machine · 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 · 177 rows
• Movement of Ecologists – Citizens' Cooperation – register of contributions above EUR 500 (Μητρώο εισφορών)Κίνημα Οικολόγων – Συνεργασία Πολιτών · 2016, 2017, 2023, 2024, 2025 · 97 rows
• EDON (AKEL youth wing) - list of persons and organisations with private contributions of EUR 500 and aboveΕΔΟΝ - Ενιαία Δημοκρατική Οργάνωση Νεολαίας (youth organisation of AKEL); copies from the Internet Archive Wayback Machine · 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2024 · 41 rows
• ELAM – list of persons and organisations with private contributions above EUR 500Εθνικό Λαϊκό Μέτωπο (ELAM) · 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 · 32 rows
• Volt Cyprus – list of private contributions above EUR 500Volt Κύπρος · 2023, 2024, 2025 · 31 rows
• Active Citizens – Movement of United Cypriot Hunters – contributions above EUR 500Ενεργοί Πολίτες – Κίνημα Ενωμένων Κυπρίων Κυνηγών · 2021, 2024 · 10 rows
• ALMA – monthly disclosure of private contributionsΆλμα – Πολίτες για την Κύπρο; copies from the Internet Archive Wayback Machine · 2025, 2026 · 6 rows

Caveats

• Cyprus has no central or machine-readable donations register: under Law 175(I)/2012 each party posts its own list of contributors above EUR 500 (by 31 March for 2016-2017, by 30 June from 2018) and sends it to the Registrar of Political Parties (Ministry of Interior), which does not publish the lists. Coverage is therefore uneven by party and year.
• OCR: scanned lists (AKEL 2017, DIKO 2020 and 2025, NEDIK 2022-2025, DIPA 2021-2024) were read with tesseract (Greek and English models, several resolutions and page-segmentation modes, with and without table lines). Amounts must agree across English-model readings; names must be words found in the machine-readable lists, a known OCR confusion of such a word, or read identically with high confidence. Every accepted row (453) was then checked by eye against the page images. 12 rows were rejected and are not in the donations data: AKEL 2017 2 (EUR 2,392), DIKO 2020 2 (EUR 52,000; amounts confirmed by the statement balance, names unreadable), DIKO 2025 2 (EUR 1,507.06), DIPA 2021 3 (EUR 7,000; two amounts under a stamp), DIPA 2022 2 (EUR 1,250), DIPA 2024 1 (EUR 5,000). Rejected, corrected and excluded rows are listed in the downloaded files/ocr/ocr_review.csv; the tesseract output is cached in the downloaded files/ocr so re-runs give the same result. Accents are not always kept in OCR names (ΛΟΪΖΙΑΣ -> ΛΟΙΖΙΑΣ).
• Printed totals: DIPA 2023 (incl. excluded state funding), ALMA and most DISY 2022 sections match. DISY 2022 Limassol prints a total of EUR 22,600 but its rows add up to EUR 36,579.77: the printed sum leaves out the entries typed as text with decimal commas. Rows are kept as listed. DIKO 2020 credits add up to the carried-forward total (EUR 321,865).
• Not ingested (rechecked 2026-09-29): DIKO 2016-2019 and ELAM 2017 (no list published or archived); DIPA 2025 (site blocks automated access and the Wayback Machine holds no capture of depa.cy taken after 1 June 2026); Greens 2018-2022 (the registers were Google Drive files that now return HTTP 404 and were never archived; the party's consolidated audited statements 2013-2024, uploaded in May 2026, contain no donor lists); ALMA's other months and its PDF registers (not archived; no capture of almacy.org after 25 May 2026 holds a contributions post); EDON (AKEL youth wing) lists for 2022, 2023 and 2025 and the youth wing NEDISY of DISY (its site publishes only activity reports); DISY 2014-2017 income ledgers (general income records, not lists of contributors above EUR 500); DIPA's June-2021 version of its 2020 list (superseded by the May-2025 version); Direct Democracy (Άμεση Δημοκρατία, registered in February 2026; its first list is due in June 2027). Of the other registered parties examined by the Audit Office (Αλλαγή Γενιάς, Αλληλεγγύη, Κόμμα για τα Ζώα and others) none has a findable online list; several have no website.
• Audit Office (audit.gov.cy; its site is behind a web application firewall, so copies came from the Wayback Machine and the Official Gazette): the 2025 consolidated compliance report on parliamentary parties (2016-2021), special report ΠΚ/08/2025 on non-parliamentary parties (Gazette 5573, 11 July 2025), the 2022 compliance audits for 2012-2015 and the election revenue/expense reports publish no named contributor lists. Annex III of the 2025 report lists contributions linked to naturalised investors by party, date and amount only, and these are already part of the party lists, so nothing was taken from these reports. Election campaign revenue/expense statements of parties and candidates are not ingested. Presidential candidates must publish their donors (in two dailies or on their campaign website) before filing their statement; the 2023 candidate lists that were found (Christodoulides: christodoulides2023.com/proedrikes-ekloges-analytiki-katastasi-eisforon, PDF removed; Colocassides: colocassides2023.com, domain expired) are no longer online and were never archived, so no candidate-level donations are included (checked 2026-09-29).
• The Audit Office found (2025) that published lists differ from the parties' own contribution registers: DISY EUR 114,487 over 2016-2021, DIKO EUR 10,360 (2020-2021), ELAM EUR 1,500 (2021), DIPA EUR 2,500 (2021), AKEL not quantifiable. Amounts here are exactly as published by the parties.
• Some lists contain amounts below EUR 500 (additional small payments by donors already above the threshold, the EDEK 2021 list of smaller contributions, AKEL entries in GBP) and repeated instalments by the same donor; rows are kept as published. 42 rows are identical to an earlier row of the same list in every field (the same donor and amount printed on separate lines: the Ecologists' monthly EUR 500 instalments of 2023-2024 account for most, plus a few DISY and DIPA lines); they are real repeated entries, not double counting by us, and their source ref carries 'repeated entry #n' (n >= 2) so that they can be told apart or excluded. Amounts marked £ are recorded in GBP. Several donors appear above the EUR 50,000 annual cap (e.g. EUR 58,144 from one person to AKEL in 2016); amounts are kept as printed.
• No double counting: each list is ingested from one file even when the same list is reachable by several routes (re-uploaded DISY files, Wayback and live copies, DIPA's two versions of 2020). DIKO's youth wing (NEDIK) files a separate list from the party's central office and district committees; both are included.
• donor kind is inferred conservatively from legal-form words (LTD, LIMITED, ΛΤΔ, ΛΙΜΙΤΕΔ, PLC, Ο.Ε.Π.Ε., BROS, ΣΥΛΛΟΓΟΣ...). Only the DISY 2018 list flags natural (Φ) vs legal (Ν) persons; other names without a legal form are 'unknown' even when they look like personal names. Party bodies, other parties and Volt Europa are 'party'; member dues, membership cards and returned deposits are 'other'; unnamed contributors are 'anonymous'.
• Recipients: DISY and DIKO lists are split into central office, district branches and affiliated organisations; all map to the party in recipient party. donor_locality is always empty (no addresses are published).
• Dates are only published by DIPA (2019, 2022, 2024), DIKO 2020 (statement), ELAM 2025, ALMA and Active Citizens 2024; all other rows carry only the reporting year. ALMA rows for 2026 cover February and March only.
• No public funding or party finance tables were ingested: state funding per party is not published as data, and party financial statements are heterogeneous (often scanned) PDFs.