Kinshasa, June 12th, 2021 (CPA).– The President of the National Assembly, Christophe Mboso, has asked all national deputies who have not yet prepared their reports for parliamentary recess from June to September 2020 and from December 2020 to March 2021, to prepare them in a week, during the plenary session he led on Friday, at the People’s Palace in the town of Lingwala.
In addition to the consideration and approval of the parliamentary recess reports for the periods from June to September 2020 and from December 2020 to March 2021, the plenary had as agenda items the in-camera examination of the committee’s reports. ad hoc tasked with preparing the preliminary draft budget of the National Assembly for the period 2020-2022 and the closed-door examination of the indictment of the Attorney General of the Republic to the Constitutional Court requesting the authorization of prosecutions to the against two national deputies.
Presenting the summary of the report of the Special and Temporary Commission in charge of the exploitation of parliamentary recess reports, the chairman of this commission, the deputy Xavier Bonané ya Nganzi indicated that the method used in the report consisted of the presentation, by province, information such as deputies provided in their parliamentary recess reports grouped into 5 sub-committees by grouping of provinces (East, West, Center, North, South) and inventory according to four themes namely: political and administrative, economic and financial, social and cultural and security.
This commission, he stressed, was set up to use the parliamentary recess reports of national deputies for the periods from June to September 2020 and from December to March 2021.
He expressed his gratitude to the President of the National Assembly Christophe Mboso for having taken the decision number 007 / CAB / P / AN / 2021 of May 19, 2021 which set up this commission in accordance with article 137 of the rules of procedure of The national assembly.
Christophe Mboso for the republican conscience
Previously, the president of the lower house of Parliament, Christophe Mboso, had called on national deputies to be republican in conscience following comments made in the media by certain deputies who, he said, cast opprobrium on The national assembly.
According to the speaker of the lower house of Parliament, these deputies reproached the National Assembly for having imposed, without debate, during the plenary debate on the bill on the operation of the CENI, the views of a political tendency given.
Rejecting these allegations, Christophe Mboso affirmed that the debate was democratic during the exchanges on this bill before adding that the office of the lower house had indeed adopted the participatory approach to this end. ACP/
