The National Assembly of Benin has been installed since February 12, 2023, but the designation of deputies to sit in the standing committees has not been completed. The opposition is keen to be well represented and not be content with second roles in a parliament where it is a minority, with 28 seats out of 109. The first distribution did not please it and it challenged it before the Constitutional Court. The Talon camp took the same approach, denouncing the attitude of the elected members of the Les Démocrates party. The court ruled on Thursday July 13 by summoning the opposition to take what it is offered before July 20.
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With our correspondent in Cotonou, Jean-Luc Aplogan
The president of the parliamentary group Les Démocrates, Nourenou Atchade, describes the decision of the Constitutional Court as “ policy “. It has nothing to do with the law, he says.
The Elders want to put an end to the soap opera on the composition of the permanent committees of The national assembly. The ruling orders the opposition deputies to accept the positions of secretaries offered to them by the movement no later than Thursday, July 20. within the five committees. If necessary, these positions will go to the two parties of the movement. Clearly, if the opposition gives up, it will not be represented at all within the five commissions: laws, finances, planning, education and external relations.
” It’s an incongruity “, fulminates a leader of the party The Democrats. The heavyweights of the party met on Sunday July 16. According to our information, there will be a second meeting extended to all the deputies of the party to make a decision. The parliament also opens, this Monday, July 17, an extraordinary session on the subject.
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