A New Democracy MP announced on Thursday that he was forfeiting all his parliamentary privileges.

Spyros Galinos, an MP for Lesvos, said that has forfeited his 1,000 euros rent allowance, his MP's car, the right to first-class flight tickets to and from Lesvos, and the detachment of two policemen and a civil servant to his service.

Furthermore, the MP announced that he would make his bonuses for attending parliamentary committees available to causes that supported the public.

Moreover, he said that none of detached employees or his aides are close or distant relatives of his, and pledged that he would never made use of the immunity law that MPs enjoy were he ever brought to court.

"I am a new MP. I found the privileges (when taking office), I did not make them. From the beginning, I used only what was necessary to do my job efficiently. The rest, I tried to make use of them for the benefit of our prefecture and, wherever this was not possible, I forfeited them," Galinos said.