Of the 56 new MPs who achieved entry into the new Parliament, 34 will retire at the age of 60 and 22 at the age of 65. And this, due to the implementation from August 21, 2025 of the new legal framework for the abolition of multiple pensions.
The phenomenon of the different age limit for the retirement of MPs is due to the restrictions imposed by the Constitution. During the 18-month debate that took place in the previous Parliament, obstacles were identified and various provisions of the legislation were identified, including the abolition of multiple pensions, the simultaneous payment of pension and salary and the increase of the retirement age of state officials from the 60th to the 65th year, could not affect those who had served as state officials before the change in the law.
The new MPs are 27. However, 22 of them will retire at the age of 65, as they did not previously hold state office.
In the 60th year, old and young
The 34 members of Parliament who will retire at the age of 60 were state officials before the implementation of the new legal framework. Specifically, 29 were MPs in the previous five years, while the five who occupied a parliamentary seat in last Sunday's elections were state officials, as they had served as ministers, officials in Local Government and in Parliament.
The five newly elected
The five newly elected MPs who will retire under the previous law, specifically at the age of 60, are DISY MPs Giorgos Pamboridis and Charalambos Petridis, who had served as Ministers of Health and Defense respectively, during the government of Nicos Anastasiades.
It is also about Andreas Konstantinou, who was mayor of Aglantzia in 2020 and after the reform of the Local Government he was elected deputy mayor. Also, it is about ELAM MP Eugene Hamboullas, who had been an MP from 2014 to 2016, as he achieved entry into the Parliament as the first runner-up after the election of Lefteris Christoforou to the European Parliament. At the same time, it also concerns ELAM MP Andreas Papacharalambous, who was mayor of Strovolos from 2017 to 2024.
The constitutional obstacles
Nor does the provision of the legislation suspending the payment of a pension in the event that a civil servant assumes a state office, so that he receives an amount of €500 from the pension, while the rest will be suspended for as long as he is in the state position, greatly affects the new MPs.
This is because the pension that the new MPs, who were previously civil servants, will receive will be well below €500, as it will concern ten months, a period during which the new law is applied.
The same regulation concerned state officials who take up a new office, but after an opinion from the Legal Service it was deemed unconstitutional and did not apply to the ministers appointed during the last government reshuffle.
The new law and the changes being promoted
In detail, with the new legal framework implemented since August, the pensions of state officials for multiple terms are also offset, while maintaining the vested rights. A number of officials covered by the Constitution and for whom Parliament has no right to influence their rights in the middle of their term are excluded from the legislation.
In addition, it is provided that all future state officials, except for the exceptions decided by the Parliament, will receive a pension at the age of 65 instead of 60. In addition, the voluntary renunciation of the pensions they receive from the state is provided for as long as they hold public office. Also, the payment of a pension is suspended in case an official takes up a new office, in order to receive an amount of €500 from the pension, while the rest will be suspended for as long as he is in the state position.
On this issue, the Legal Service had called on the Ministry of Finance to proceed with the amendment of the law through the submission of a relevant bill to the Parliament. According to information from "F", the specific issue was the subject of a study by the Ministry of Finance, which is considering the possibility of promoting a relevant proposal. However, as it stands, the provision for state officials cannot be implemented due to constitutional obstacles.
