House speaker Annita Demetriou said on Wednesday that lifetime benefits for the president and the House speaker need to be abolished.
“I have the personal opinion that these lifetime benefits should be abolished, and all regulations should be placed in a different, transparent and rational framework,” she told the House ethics committee on a draft bill that would abolish some of them.
She added that this is a practice still in place today, and that it needs to be “drastically reviewed”.
Commenting on some of the specifics of the what the committee is examining, she said that lifetime provision of a state vehicle for the president and the House speaker also needs to be abolished.
“I personally do not accept it,” she said.
The bill was put forth by independent MP Alexandra Attalides.
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