Newly elected President of the Republic of Cyprus, Nikos Christodoulides will be sworn before the House of Representatives on Tuesday, February 28.

As CNA has learnt, the special Plenary session of the House regarding the swearing in procedure defined by article 42 of the Constitution, will take place at 11.30 in the morning (local time).

The ceremony in the Plenary will be a milestone, not only for the installation of the new Government, but also for the official resumption of the work of the Parliament that was interrupted after the approval of the budget in December and due to the election campaign, with the exception of some extraordinary Committee meetings and Plenary sessions.

The work of Parliament will resume on the first of March, with new balances being formed, since Cyprus two major parties Democratic Rally (DISY) and AKEL will be in the opposition. DISY holds 17 seats and AKEL 15 seats in the Parliament.

The new Government is backed by centrist parties DIKO  and DEPA and social democratic party EDEK which hold 16 of the 56 seats in the Parliament.

However the new President was voted by a big part of DISY supporters, after the party's president Averof Neofytou failed to make it to the second round of the presidential elections. Chirstodoulides has served as Government Spokesman and Foreign Minister in the Government of outgoing President Nicos Anastasiades, who was elected for two terms with the support of the center-right party.

Following the outcome of the run-off election on Sunday evening, Neofytou declared that the party will behave as a "responsible opposition" and that "the new President of the Republic of Cyprus can count on the support of the Democratic Rally for the advancement of our country".

On his part, the Secretary General of left-wing party AKEL Stefanos Stefanou said on Sunday that AKEL as a parliamentary party will be in the opposition "with responsibility, decisiveness, staidness and patriotism".

Far - right party ELAM, whose President Christos Christou also failed to make to the second round, which has three parliamentary seats did not offer outright support to Christodoulides before the runoff saying that there's "a gap of opinion on key political issues", but noting at the same time that it would be against its opponent in the run-off round, Andreas Mavroyiannis, who was backed by AKEL.

Although Cyprus Green party, with three MPs in the Parliament, did not officially take a position in support of any candidate, one of its MP openly supported Christodoulides and one other was openly in favour of his opponent.

Independent MP Andreas Themistokleous was openly in favour of the candidacy of Nikos Christodoulides in the run-off election, while the stance of the newly independent MP Costis Efstathiou is not yet clear.