Direct Democracy Cyprus

Direct Democracy Cyprus
Άμεση Δημοκρατία Κύπρου
Ámesi Dimokratía Kýprou
PresidentFidias Panayiotou
FounderFidias Panayiotou
Founded16 October 2025;
12 months ago (2025-10-16)
Legalised27 February 2026;
8 months ago (2026-02-27)
European Parliament groupNon-Inscrits
Colours  Dark blue
  Orange
House of Representatives
4 / 56
European Parliament
1 / 6
Municipal Councils
0 / 443
Website
register.directdemocra.cy

Direct Democracy Cyprus (Greek: Άμεση Δημοκρατία Κύπρου, romanized: Ámesi Dimokratía Kýprou) is a political party in Cyprus established by YouTuber and MEP Fidias Panayiotou.

Initially declared "Direct Democracy" on 16 October 2025, the party was legally founded on 27 February 2026, under the name "Direct Democracy Cyprus".

The "Agorà" application

The "Agorà" App (meaning "marketplace" and "place of public discussion" in Greek) is the application used by the party supporters to vote on parliamentary issues.

The party operates an online application through which Cypriot citizens can verify their identity and indicate how they want their representatives to vote. According to the party, elected representatives would use these results to guide their votes in parliament, with the long-term aim of replacing the representative parliamentary system with direct democracy.

This is not the first attempt to establish direct democracy into a parliament via a similar "Trojan Horse" system, with the first one being IserveU. This idea was also tried, under the name pirategov, in the Pirate Party of Greece from 19 June 2012 until 16 December 2012.. There is also the Russian Party of Direct Democracy that was founded in 2020 and several other attempts in the List of direct democracy parties.

Between 12 and 14 March 2026, over 16,000 verified Cypriot citizens voted in the app to determine the party's 56 candidates for the 2026 Cypriot parliamentary elections. Between 19 and 21 March 2026, elections were held to determine the party's president, with Fidias Panayiotou receiving 56.79% of the vote. Diana Constantinides, who received 27.26%, was appointed vice-president. At the elections, ADK elected 4 MPs and received over 20,000 votes.

Cyprus Parliamentary Elections 2026

The "Direct Republic of Cyprus" won four seats in the parliamentary elections of Cyprus in 2026. Initially, the following were elected:

Fidias Panayiotou chose to keep his seat in the European Parliament and renounced the parliamentary seat of Nicosia, which goes to Yiannis Laouris.

Stances and principles

The party supports direct democracy and e-democracy.

Criticism of the four elected MPs

The four elected members of the party in the Cypriot parliament are accused of betraying Direct Democracy principles, because their very first action was to vote for the president of the parliament without asking the Agora App, and because they deny to put themselves in a digital recall election. The members apologized in the official podcast of direct democracy party.

The Party's president requested for police protection

The party's president Fidias Panayiotou, although never having requested protection before, requested the protection from the Cyprus Police.

Electoral results

Parliament

House of Representatives
Election Votes Seats
# % Rank # ±
2026 20,159 5.42 6th New

References

  1. ↑ "MEP Fidias Panayiotou launches new political party 'Direct Democracy'". Philenews. 16 October 2025. Retrieved 22 October 2025.
  2. ↑ "Μετονομάστηκε σε «Άμεση Δημοκρατία Κύπρου» το κόμμα του Φειδία". www.politis.com.cy (in Greek). 2026-02-05. Retrieved 2026-05-28.
  3. ↑ "Μητρώο Πολιτικών Κομμάτων - Υπουργείο Εσωτερικών - Ιστοσελίδα Εκλογών - Gov.cy". www.gov.cy (in Greek). Retrieved 2026-05-30.
  4. ↑ "Agorà - Εφαρμογές στο Google Play". play.google.com (in Greek). Retrieved 2026-09-17.
  5. ↑ Εσείς θα ψηφίζετε τι θέλετε - Μιχαλάκης Μιχαήλ. Retrieved 2026-09-17 – via www.youtube.com.
  6. ↑ "IserveU". YouTube. Retrieved 2026-05-08.
  7. ↑ "Greek Pirate Party forum 1". forum.pirateparty.gr (in Greek). Retrieved 2025-12-28.
  8. ↑ "Greek Pirate Party forum 2". forum.pirateparty.gr (in Greek). Retrieved 2025-12-28.
  9. ↑ Μαύρου, Άντρεα (2026-03-15). "Άμεση Δημοκρατία: Ανακοινώθηκαν οι 56 υποψήφιοι - Τα ονόματα". Philenews (in Greek). Retrieved 2026-05-26.
  10. ↑ "Πρώτος πρόεδρος της Άμεσης Δημοκρατίας ο Φειδίας Παναγιώτου με 56,79% - Διόρισε αντιπρόεδρο την Νταϊάνα Κωνσταντινίδη". Politis (in Greek). 2026-03-22. Retrieved 2026-05-26.
  11. ↑ "Feidias has decided what to do with the seat - He remains an MEP, Laouris an MP Nicosia". www.politis.com.cy (in Greek). 2026-05-25. Retrieved 2026-05-25.
  12. ↑ "MEP Fidias 'Direct Democracy' experiment – a new idea or tried and tested?". Ciren. 26 November 2025. Retrieved 2 March 2026..
  13. ↑ Ανακλητότητα & Μομφή Κατά Νόμων & Αξιωματούχων - Εφαρμοσμένο Εργαλείο Δημοκρατίας!. Stavros Kalenteridis. 31 May 2026 – via YouTube.
  14. ↑ Γιατί Ψηφίσαμε την Αννίτα; Κριτική του Κόσμου και το Application! – Podcast Άμεσης Δημοκρατίας. Άμεση Δημοκρατία Κύπρου and Fidias Cyprus. 7 June 2026 – via YouTube.
  15. ↑ Είσαι αστυνομικός; Δήλωσε το ενδιαφέρον σου στον σύνδεσμο στο κανάλι. Fidias Cyprus. 7 June 2026 – via YouTube.