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The House ethics committee is meeting on Thursday after Green MP Alexandra Attalides complained that an independent MP made abusive remarks against her on social media.
The session under the House president Annita Demetriou is also attended by Disy MP Onoufrios Koullas, Akel MP Artistos Damianou and Nicolas Papadopoulos and Panikos Leonidou of Diko.
This is the first stage of the procedure, where it will be discussed whether Attalides complaint is admissible to start proceedings against Independent MP Andreas Themistocleous.
The complaint was submitted after a Facebook post made last week by Themistocleous, replying to Attalidou’s earlier post where she welcomed the passage of legislation criminalising ‘conversion therapies’ on LGBTQI persons.
Themistocleous wrote “it looks like the three blacks never showed up”. He was citing a December article when Attalides said she was receiving threatening messages, among them one saying they would “send three blacks to take care of you”, over her support for LGBT rights and other policies.
Since the incident, Attalides has called for even stiffer penalties on MPs who behave unethically or in disorderly or disruptive way in parliament. She said the regulation amended should allow for the suspension of payment of an MP’s salary, or barring an offending MP from participating in committees – in line with European Parliament practices.
According to Themistocleous, he brought up the “three blacks” remark to show the Green MP that nothing in fact happened to her after passage of the bill prohibiting conversion therapies. His comment was meant to mock her claims that she was in danger.
The independent MP had voted against the legislation aiming to put an end to the pseudo-treatments on LGBTQI individuals.
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