#House of Representatives

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 ...

The 56 MPs elected or re-elected to parliament will take home €5,500 a month, while the House president makes far more, official data showed on Monday. According to state treasury data, the ...

A law passed by parliament and referred by President Nikos Christodoulides, allowing compensation to be paid to communities neighbouring the power plant in Dhekelia, has been found to contradict the ...

Exactly 753 people filed candidacies for the forthcoming parliamentary elections on Wednesday, as official registrations for those vying to win one of the 56 seats in the House took place. Those candidates ...

The House on Thursday passed legislation extending the time period during which people applying for a permit for their first home may benefit from discounted VAT. Three years ago, regulations ...

President Nikos Christodoulides said on Thursday he was leaving open the possibility of referring the foreclosure laws back to the House, as many aspects needed to be examined. The laws, ...

A law requiring compensation for surplus electricity generated by photovoltaic systems has been referred back to parliament on Thursday by President Nikos Christodoulides. The decision was taken following the law’...

Government spokesperson Konstantinos Letymbiotis on Friday described parliament’s decision to abolish the social support body as “regrettable”. The House voted to dismantle the body, which provided financial assistance to ...

The House plenary on Thursday passed a law aiming to curb the granting of permits for commercial solar parks, in a stated bid to protect arable land as well as ...

The House of Representatives on Thursday voted down a resolution calling on the government to disclose to parliament donations to the social support fund, a charity previously chaired by the ...

MPs on Tuesday stressed that updated legislation for the disabled must pass before the House dissolves ahead of the May parliamentary elections, even as groups representing persons with disabilities complained ...

The unauthorised publication of ‘deepfakes’ is now a criminal offence, under a law passed by parliament on Thursday. A deepfake is synthetic media – images, video, or audio – created using advanced ...

The House on Thursday passed a law extending to the end of March the deadline for payment of road tax, citing glitches with online payments on the website of the ...

The House on Thursday passed a law providing for stiffer fines for fly-tipping, but at the same time MPs cautioned that lax enforcement makes the legislation a dud. The bill ...

MPs on Tuesday demanded that the government temporarily suspend charging farmers for using water from boreholes, a move farmers say could deal them the final blow and drive them out ...