Key facts
- Abbreviation
- DISY
- President
- Annita Demetriou
- Deputy president
- Efthimios Diplaros
- Vice presidents
- Savia Orfanidou , Georgios Karoullas [ el ] , Yiannis Karousos
- Founder
- Glafcos Clerides
- Founded
- 4 July 1976 ; , 49 years ago ( 1976-07-04 )
- Preceded by
- EK , DEK , PP
- Headquarters
- Nicosia , Cyprus
- Think tank
- ONEDISY
- Student wing
- PROTOPORIA
- Youth wing
- NEDISY (Democratic Rally Youth)
- Women s wing
- GODISY
- Membership 2022
- 50,660
- Ideology
- Christian democracy Liberal conservatism Pro-Europeanism
- Political position
- Centre-right to right-wing
- European affiliation
- European People's Party
- European parliament group
- European People's Party Group
- International affiliation
- Centrist Democrat International , International Democracy Union
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Encyclopedic overview
The Democratic Rally (Greek: Δημοκρατικός Συναγερμός, romanized: Dimokratikós Sinagermós, ΔΗΣΥ, DISY) is a Christian democratic and liberal-conservative political party in Cyprus led by Annita Demetriou. The party was founded on 4 July 1976 by veteran politician Glafcos Clerides. Two leaders of the party have served as presidents of Cyprus, Clerides from 1993 until 2003 and Nicos Anastasiades from 2013 to 2023.
From 11 March 2023, the leader of the party is Annita Demetriou, who also serves as the president of the House of Representatives since June 2021.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Democratic Rally” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.