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The plenary session of the House of Representatives is meeting today with important issues on the agenda, including the speech of the Minister of Finance,[/B] ahead of the vote on the state budget, divestments, the pension and sex education in schools.
The session will start at 09:00.
On December 6, 7 and 8 the debate on the state budget will take place in plenary.[/B] The vote will take place on the 8th.
Thereafter, the Parliament will suspend its work in view of the presidential elections in February 2023.
Recall that President Anastasiades had made a referral of the law passed by the Parliament on a three-month suspension of divestments.
The pension bill concerns the creation of the new Professional Pension Benefit Plan for Employees of the State Service and the Wider Public Sector.
On the issue of sexual education, the Minister of Education, Sports and Youth, Prodromos Prodromou, in yesterday's letter to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mrs. Anita Demetriou, clarified that under no circumstances does the Ministry wishes or intends to interfere with the work of the Parliament, nor does it consider that the notification of the opinion of the Attorney General, according to which this particular proposal for a law has problems of constitutional order, was an interference.
This was preceded by a letter of reply from Ms Demetriou to Mr. Prodromou in which she stated that any intervention of the Executive Authority on the substance of the proposed legislation concerning sexual education in schools, constitutes an anti-regulatory and unethical act, which contains obvious risks for the smooth functioning of the institutions and should be avoided.
Source: CNA
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