Fifty-one years separate the oldest and youngest members of Cyprus’s newly elected House of Representatives — a gap that spans careers, generations and political eras.
The elder of the two extremes is Zacharias Koulias, 75, who held on to his Famagusta district seat for DIKO with 2,700 preference votes — a seat he has held continuously since 1999. Koulias, who studied law at the University of Athens and has practised as a lawyer since 1984, is also the longest-serving member of the new House.
He has served as both a member and president of parliamentary committees, sat as a DIKO MP for Famagusta from 1999 to 2011, as an independent from 2011 to 2016, and returned to DIKO from 2016 onwards.
The two 24-year-olds
At the other end of the spectrum, two newly elected MPs share the title of youngest member — both are 24 years old.
The first is Efraim Christou of AKEL, who secured a Limassol seat with 4,966 preference votes. Born in Limassol, Christou grew up in Foini, where he still lives, and has been a member of AKEL and Secretary of the party’s Marathasa-Foini group since 2020. Since 2025 he has also served on the Central Council of EDON.
The second is Dimitris Baros, who won a Paphos seat for Direct Democracy Cyprus with just 280 votes. According to his biography, Baros graduated from secondary school with a grade of 19 out of 20, earning a place to study electrical engineering at the National Technical University of Athens. He served in the army as a reserve officer cadet in the special forces, completed an IRONMAN 70.3 triathlon, and travelled to 15 countries in three months without money.