After pollsters’ predictions proved spectacularly wrong in the first round, Greek Cypriots are looking to internet betting sites for hints on the outcome of Sunday’s run-off vote for a new president.

Demetris Christofias, the Cyprus communist party leader and runner-up in last Sunday’s first-round vote, is in pole position after his party earlier this week forged a controversial alliance with the Democratic party, a nationalist group, according to online bookmakers.