Pourgourides the new doyen of the House

DISY deputy Christos Pourgourides was from yesterday the new Acting House President, following deputies’ switchover to the Cabinet.

The right-wing party’s Limassol MP, born in Moniatis in 1945, is the doyen of the House, following AKEL’s Costas Papacostas who was appointed to the Defence Ministry.

Pourgourides will therefore preside over’s Thursday’s first House meeting since the pre-election period began and during which the Body will elect its new House Speaker.

The DISY deputy will maintain his role as Acting House President after the new Speaker is elected. In his absence, DISY chairman Nicos Anastassiades will take over, who was born in 1946 in the Limassol district village of Pera Pedi.

He is followed by EVROKO deputy chairman Nicos Koutsou, who was born in Famagusta in November 1946, and DIKO spokesman Andreas Angelides, who was born in Larnaca in December 1946.

Up until yesterday, Defence Minister Costas Papacostas – born in Agia Triada Yialousas in 1939 – was Acting House President, substituted by newly-appointed Justice Minister Kypros Chrysostomides, who was born in Kathikas in 1942.

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