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Critics say proposed law bypasses House oversight and would entrench sweeping powers of health minister The new legislation dealing with pandemic-like situations raises a slew of red flags according to ...

Opposition on Thursday called for caution over updating the 1923 law on infectious diseases to avoid restricting basic freedoms, with Akel arguing that lack of proper definitions of some words makes ...

MPs next Thursday will start discussing the thorny issues of the proposed local authority reform after more or less agreeing on the rest of the provisions of three bills. House ...

The House of Representatives on Thursday passed a law extending the duration of maternity leave for mothers with two children or more. For the second child, maternity leave has been ...

Citing Cyprus’ slide in World Bank metrics on the public’s perception on control of corruption, Auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides told MPs on Friday that watchdog bodies such as his should ...

Parliament on Thursday passed legislation tweaking the Waste Law in such a way as to enable the activation on a nationwide basis of the ‘Pay-as-you-throw’ system designed to promote recycling. ...

The House on Thursday gave the nod to government legislation regulating the use of traffic cameras on roads and the issuing of fines – with the surveillance system expected to launch ...

MPs on Thursday ploughed on with an article-by-article discussion of sweeping reforms to local authorities that must be approved by the end of the year for Cyprus to qualify for ...

Education Minister Prodromos Prodromou’s unexpected absence on Friday from a meeting with the House education committee drew strong reactions from MPs, who were expecting to discuss the exams scheduled ...

Discussion on local government reform bills continued Thursday with stakeholders urged to be sensible about their demands and focus on the big picture, which is the need for reforms. The ...

Nicosia Mayor Constantinos Yiorkadjis warned that moving parliament permanently from the centre would create serious problems to the capital, including harming efforts to revitalise areas neighbouring the buffer zone. Yiorkadjis ...

Having received €7m in state aid for 2021 in February, political parties are now squabbling over whether it should be redistributed to reflect the results of the May parliamentary elections. This ...

The House plenary on Thursday rubberstamped the chairs and members of the 16 regular parliamentary committees, plus of the ad hoc committee on demographics and a newly created ethics committee for ...

Far-right party Elam was given the chair of the ad hoc House committee on demographics on Thursday, as parties came to an agreement over the allocation of committees. Demographics had ...

Smaller parties, which include far-right Elam, ought to have a House committee chair in the name of cooperation and consensus, ruling Disy leader Averof Neophytou said on Wednesday. “The elections ...

New members of parliament should prioritise improving public health, the Federation of Patients’ Associations of Cyprus (Osak) said on Monday. The interests of the people must be protected with sensitivity ...

Disy MP Annita Demetriou was voted House president on Thursday, the first woman ever to hold the post in Cyprus. Demetriou garnered 25 votes in the second round. She was voted ...

Twenty incoming MPs who will be sworn in on Thursday said they hope the new parliament will not just serve the interests of individuals and political parties and will also ...

Dr Louisa Borg Haviaras Seven parties entered parliament following the 30th of May parliamentary elections with winners and losers left to ponder on the meaning of the results. 34.2 per cent ...

Twenty outgoing MPs will share an approximate €3m one-off tax-free payment, it emerged on Friday. Former MPs who served one term will receive a one-off payment of €75,728 and are entitled ...

Ruling Disy will on Friday announce who they will formally nominate for new House president, in what should get the ducks in a row as to who is most likely ...

In a presidential system, parliament is not directly involved in government as it is in a parliamentary democracy, but it can make life very difficult for the executive by blocking ...

In February main opposition Akel tabled, then withdrew a bill which – according to a prominent lawyer – had sought to ‘legalise’ the unlawfulness of the coronavirus decrees so far. The legislative ...

The House of Representatives on Friday held its last plenary session before the parliamentary elections due to take place on May 30. The parliament decided unanimously to be dissolved beginning as ...