National Assembly rules under debate

These elected officials will also review the rules of the congress which brings together both Houses of Parliament and the Organization of Parliamentary Inquiry Commissions.

The first text is the project for the draft internal of the National Assembly. The other concerns the meetings of the two chambers in Congress. The third text is related to the Parliamentary Inquiry Commissions.


These are in principle the proposals of law, because these texts were, in theory, submitted by the members themselves. Practice is often that these texts should follow practically the key stages of design of the Bills.


These texts were expected since the parliamentary session in November.


A session that showed that there was needed to reform the rules of the National Assembly, in line with that of the Senate.

Analysts had also observed the silence on the functioning of the Congress. The Organization of Parliamentary Inquiry Commissions had to be adapted to bicameralism.


These three texts will help to animate, again, a session of June opened under the effect of the high-profile visit OF Guillaume Soro, the president of the National Assembly of Ivory Coast.


Two-thirds of this session, members had already seen the passage of half a dozen bills.


This is especially the ratifications of the cooperation agreements. Networks of parliamentarians have also been very active during the last twenty days.