Our View: Minister should not have bowed to pressure over Phedonos

Phedonas Phedonos was suspended from the post of Paphos mayor by decree of the interior minister, who was given the authority to axe mayors by the new local government law that was approved a few years ago. This law gives the interior minister, an unelected official, power to remove an elected official like a mayor from his post, as soon as he receives word from the police that the mayor is under investigation for an offence that carries a prison sentence of at least three years.

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