Corruption and elections' fraud: Parliament office thwarts the creation of inquiry committees

This action prevents enabling this body from doing its task of control, as it costs the public treasury considerable sums of money, while the parliament only mentioned the phrase ” prejudice to the public interest” to thwart the demands which referred to it.    

Head of Parliament group of the green bloc, Nomane Lawar, said as soon as the parliament was inaugurated, an initiative to create inquiry committee in the legislative parliament results, and which was criticised by all the parties with the exception of FLN and RND.

“After official contacts and protests, the council’s office was obliged to provide a written response titled “prejudice to public interests”.

The bloc launched the creation of an inquiry committee on what was included in the report of the council of countability, which revealed on dozens of financial positions at some ministries , without opening competitions for them, in addition to another case, in which the former solidarity minister, Djamel Ould Abbas was implicated, as it is related to buying buses and distributing them, which raises question mark on the relationship of the association with the ministry.

Same source revealed that the parliament office created another method to destroy every initiative before it is realised, through the obligation of bringing the irrefutable evidence, wondering:”How can we crate other initiatives if their end is known”.

Lawar proposed another solution to avoid the failure of the control role of MPs, which is demanding the visit justice minister to the lower chamber of parliament to reveal on the results of investigations at the level of justice, before exposing the files, saying that this can be realised if there is a real will to combat corruption.

Ahmed Batatache, head of the FFS parliamentary group, asked for the creation of inquiry committees on corruption scandals, the latest was the theft of very sensitive files from Algiers judicial council, leading to judicial barriers, which is the impossibility of investigating cases that were referred to justice.

Leader member in the labour party, Djelloul Djoudi, said that the activation of control in parliament is necessary, adding that his group asked a series of questions orally to the council’s office, as some are related to the intervention in Mali, and protests of the south, without programming them, insisting on the government to provide an outcome on privatisation but this was not realised, although the council of privatisation obliged the government to provide an outcome, asserting that the aim of that is the nature of the council, which was the fruit of falsified elections, and the result was that it includes more than 100 businessmen.

Ali Hamel, vice president of the lower chamber of Parliament, for the FLN, said there are no acts related to thwarting  initiatives to create parliament inquiry committees, adding; “Council’s office did not receive since the beginning of this term any real initiative that was refused, except the demand to create an inquiry committee  on the results of the legislative elections, for causes related to the presence of more than 500 personalities from abroad to monitor it.