Our View: Local government reform needs a rethink

It is a positive development that Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou, has decided to revisit the botched reform of local government, which resulted from years of chopping and changing the plans by the political parties whose only concern was creating a maximum number of jobs for their people.

This was exemplified by the creation of 93 sinecures for so-called deputy mayors. These deputy mayors have no duties or responsibilities and work only if the mayor gives them a task to perform.