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The '''United Democrats''' (''Ενωμένοι Δημοκράτες'', ''Enomeni Dimokrates'', EDI) is a liberal political party in [[Cyprus]]. The party was founded by former [[President of Cyprus]] [[George Vasiliou]] in [[1993]] as "Kinima Eleftheron Dimokraton" (Movement of free democrats). The party later merged with ADISOK (a group of ex- [[AKEL]] members) to form United Democrats.
The party is a member of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party. Its member of parliament, [[Androulla Vasiliou]] is member of the ELDR Bureau.
At the last legislative elections, 27 May 2001, the party won 2.6% of the popular vote and 1 out of 56 seats.

During the [[2004]] Annan Plan Referendum, the party supported the [[Annan Plan for Cyprus]].

In 2005 the party's president [[George Vasiliou]] stepped down and [[Michalis Papapetrou]] was elected president. In the [[Cypriot legislative election, 2006|elections of 21 May 2006]], the party won only 1.6% and lost parliamentary representation. After the loss of the parliamentary representation [[Michalis Papapetrou]] expressed the will to resign as a leader of the party. In March 2007 the vice-president [[Praxoula Antoniadou]] took the leadership of the party.

In the 2011 Legislative Elections, the United Democrats decided to support the governing party, [[AKEL]]. The party leader [[Praxoula Antoniadou]] was a candidate MP for [[AKEL]] and now serves as a member of [[Dimitris Christofias]]' cabinet.

==Presidents==

*1996-2005: [[George Vasiliou]]
*2005-2007: [[Michalis Papapetrou]]
*2007-Current: [[Praxoula Antoniadou]]

==External links==
*[http://www.edi.org.cy/ United Democrats] official website

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