#House of Representatives

The House speakers of Cyprus, Egypt and Greece will meet in Nicosia on Wednesday to adopt a joint declaration on “peace and cooperation” in the Levant, parliament announced on Monday. ...

Farmers are feeling the pressure from rising production costs and unreliable water supply, MPs said on Monday as the government insisted it’s doing everything it can to support the ...

The House on Thursday approved the tax reduction on heating fuel, part of a relief package to tackle the cost of living unveiled in late September. The tax on heating ...

The House foreign affairs committee on Tuesday criticised the foreign and defence ministries for failing to send a representative to a scheduled discussion on Cyprus’ strategic relationship with the United ...

House human rights committee chairman and Akel MP Christos Christofides on Monday condemned a video in which two Direct Democracy MPs said “no one understood anything” during a committee discussion ...

The new parliament that emerged from May’s elections has a demanding legislative agenda ahead of it when the session reopens at the beginning of September, with important bills and ...

Special investigator Andreas Paschalides has been summoned to a parliamentary committee that will scrutinise his findings over the Videogate affair, but it’s unclear if he will attend, it transpired ...

The House plenum on Thursday approved regulations that will factor in prior service in the public sector for the purposes of calculating employees’ annual leave. The amended regulations passed by ...

The government will extend reduced fuel excise duties until September 17 at an estimated cost of €15.5 million after agreeing to prolong the measure beyond its original August deadline. As announced by ...

Cyprus faces a dearth of nurses at state hospitals, the health minister said on Thursday, proposing that one quick fix could be to hire people from non-EU countries. Speaking in ...

Former auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides stirred things up during his first appearance as MP at a House parliamentary committee on Thursday, demanding the Audit Office hand over internal documents. His target: ...

The government has paid €13 million in compensation to people affected by last year’s devastating wildfire in the Limassol mountain region, while authorities say Cyprus is better prepared for this ...

The House plenum decided on Wednesday the composition of its committees following the May 24 parliamentary elections, in a procedure ridden by disagreements on procedural and participation issues. A total of 16 ...

The House plenum convenes at 9.30am on Wednesday to approve the composition of parliamentary committees and elect the members of the special committee on ethics. The committees remain 16 as in ...

The House formally approved on Thursday night the composition of its selection committee as well as the appointment of new parliamentary secretaries and the administrative clerk. The plenary session lasted ...

Up to 16 positions are up for grabs as the House plenum votes on Thursday for the chairmanships of the House committees. The vote on the committee chairmanships and their composition ...

Parliamentary parties agreed on Tuesday to the composition of the selection committee that will oversee the allocation of parliamentary committee chairmanships, ahead of its election by the House plenum this ...

Parliament advanced plans on Tuesday to allocate around €640,000 in state funding and provide police escorts to the newly established parliamentary parties Alma and Direct Democracy. Under the current framework, each ...

The first meeting of party leaders and representatives in the newly elected House of Representatives is set to take place at noon on Tuesday under the chairmanship of House President ...

Disy leader Annita Demetriou was on Thursday elected as House president for a second time, receiving the votes of 29 of the 56 members of the new parliament as it opened for ...

As soon as the results of the parliamentary elections were announced, all public attention shifted to who will be the next president of the House of Representatives. It has been ...

Discussion over Volt’s electoral defeat and the party’s future direction began on Wednesday following meetings of its collective bodies, with former MP Alexandra Attalides saying the new House ...

Elam leader Christos Christou said on Wednesday that Elam will seek to chair the parliamentary committees on education and environment in the new House of Representatives, following the party’s ...

Negotiations over the allocation of parliamentary committee chairmanships intensified on Wednesday as parties manoeuvred for influence following Sunday’s parliamentary elections. At the centre of the discussions is the distribution ...