Al-Kaabi directs to form mini-committee to resolve the issue of Parliamentary Committees’ Chairmen

The First Deputy Speaker Mr. Hassan Al-Kaabi chaired on Saturday December 8, 2018 a meeting of the Committee on the Amendment of the Rules of Procedure in the Constitutional Hall in the presence of the Deputy Speaker Dr. Bashir al-Haddad and a number of heads and representatives of the parliamentary blocs.
The meeting discussed the need to expedite the resolution of the chairmanship of the Committees to resume their meetings and exercise their legislative and supervisory role.
Al-Kaabi stressed that the meeting comes to solve the problems concerning the chairmanship of the committees, stressing that some Committees do their work effectively and continuously and discuss legislative proposals and refer them to the Presidency without without being concerned with this issue.
A number of representatives of the parliamentary blocs suggested to amend Article 74 of the rules of procedure of the Council of Representatives in order to allow the President of age to chair the committees temporarily until the election of permanent Chairmen.
At the end of the meeting, the First Deputy Speaker of the Council of Representatives agreed with the representatives of the parliamentary blocs to form a mini committee to resolve the issue of chairmanship of the committees within a short period of time.
The First Deputy Speaker Media Office
8/12/2018