Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades has won a second five-year term with 56 percent of votes, defeating the leftist-backed Stavros Malas. His triumph was mainly built on containing an economic meltdown in 2013 and an attempt to reconcile with estranged Turkish Cypriots on the ethnically-split island. Anastasiades called on his people to unite and cooperate to address future problems and challenges. Cyprus emerged from a bailout program from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund in 2016, by taking painful austerity measures in the early stage.