Our View: The constitutional time bomb of deputy ministries

It defies belief that for years now, the executive and the legislature have been pretending there is no constitutional issue with the deputy ministries, the first of which was introduced by the Nicos Anastasiades government in 2019. It was the deputy ministry of tourism, which replaced the CTO (Cyprus Tourism Organisation), and another four were established during Anastasiades’ second term. The Christodoulides government set up the sixth – the deputy ministry of migration and asylum – after the...