Cyprus Parliament

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday called on Cyprus to close its ports to all Russian ships and to deny “privileges” to Russian nationals but omitted any reference to the Turkish invasion of the island in 1974. He was speaking...

Cyprus recently elected Annita Demetriou as its first female parliamentary speaker since the island first became an independent republic in 1960. Lawmakers elected her with 25 votes out of the 56 seat parliament, a major game changer for Cypriot women,...

The Cyprus House plenary passed on Friday, by 30 votes in favor and 20 against, a bill tabled by the ruling Democratic Rally (DISY) party for a legislative amendment to shift decision-making power on school celebrations from the Parliament...

On Thursday the Cyprus parliament went forward in approving a legislation that slashes mandatory military service for male Greek-Cypriot nationals from 24 months to 14 months. Cyprus is considered one of the most militarized lands as the occupied island hosts...

Chief Returning Officer Constantinos Nicolaides announced the 56 new MPs at the early hours of Monday morning, at the Filoxenia Conference Centre, in Nicosia, after all the ballots and preference crosses for the candidates were counted. The MPs who were...

Cypriot Parliament President Yiannakis Omirou congratulated Prokopis Pavlopoulos for his election as the new President of the Hellenic Republic. As he highlighted, Cyprus is looking forward to the continuation of the two countries' common course. In his congratulatory message to...

A Troika technical delegation is expected to return to Cyprus on January 27 in order to conduct the sixth review of the financial assistance program. According to information emerging from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and have been confirmed by...

Cyprus Parliament on Thursday failed to adopt a controversial privatization plan, potentially throwing into disarray an international bailout programme of the island and endangering the next tranche of a €10bn loan. As hundreds of protesters demonstrated outside parliament, the vote...