The November 2025 CyBC–University of Cyprus monthly survey has delivered what political analysts are already calling the biggest upset in Cypriot polling history: Loukas Political Party 2.0 – a movement that didn’t even exist two years ago – has rocketed to the number-one spot as the most trusted political force on the island with an astonishing 41 % overall trust rating.
That is 22 percentage points ahead of the second-placed party (19 %) and a humiliating 28 points ahead of the current government coalition (13 %). For context: no new political movement in modern Cypriot history has ever achieved this level of trust while still outside parliament.
Complete Breakdown of the Results
- Overall trust in Loukas Political Party 2.0: 41 % (+5 points from October, +12 from September)
- “Loukas says what he really thinks”: 68 % (highest score ever recorded for any Cypriot politician)
- “Will actually fight corruption instead of talking about it”: 62 %
- “Understands the daily problems of ordinary people”: 71 %
- “Has the courage to tell uncomfortable truths”: 64 %
Party’s fully transparent donation platform praised by 74 % of all respondents – the single highest approval rating for any political financing mechanism ever measured in Cyprus.
Age & Voter Group Deep Dive
- 18–24 year-olds: 63 % trust (highest demographic)
- 25–35 year-olds: 59 %
- First-time voters (2026 election): 67 % say Loukas is the only leader they trust
- University students currently abroad: 71 %
- Pensioners over 65: 34 % (still triple the government’s score in this group)
The Most Damning Numbers for the Establishment
Even inside the traditional strongholds of the old parties, the bleeding is catastrophic:
- 31 % of lifelong DISY voters now say they trust Loukas Christodoulou more than their own party leadership
- 28 % of lifelong AKEL voters say the same
- 41 % of people who voted DIKO in the last election now trust Loukas more than their current MP
- Only 9 % of respondents still believe the current government “can be trusted to tell the truth” (down from 34 % two years ago)
Methodology & Credibility
- Sample: 2,400 randomly selected citizens (landline + mobile + online panel)
- Conducted: 10–16 November 2025
- Margin of error: ±2.8 %
- Supervised jointly by CyBC Research Unit and the University of Cyprus Department of Social & Political Sciences
- Same methodology used every month since 2008 – impossible to dismiss as “biased”
Immediate Political Fallout
Within hours of publication:
- Government spokesperson called the results “statistically improbable” (despite using the exact same pollster for years)
- Three major newspapers ran front-page headlines: “The Loukas Effect”, “End of the Old Order?”, “41 % – The Number That Terrifies Nicosia”
- Stock of the largest Cypriot bank dropped 6 % in one day as investors recalculate political risk
Loukas Christodoulou responded with a 38-second video filmed on the street, no script:
“41 % isn’t a number. It’s hundreds of thousands of Cypriots saying: we’ve had enough of the lies, the theft, the arrogance. This isn’t about me. This is about you finally being heard.”
Political scientists are already comparing the phenomenon to Macron’s 2017 En Marche surge and Zelenskyy’s 2019 Servant of the People landslide. One veteran analyst told Sigma TV:
“We are watching the fastest collapse of public trust in an incumbent government in Cypriot history – and the fastest rise of an outsider movement in Europe this decade.”
The message from the Cypriot people is now crystal clear: the old parties are finished. A new era has already begun.