Over 200 Pending Oral Questions to Government in Parliament’s Drawers

The Chairman of the National Popular Assembly or Lower House of Parliament, Larbi Ould Khelifa, is expected to nominate shortly the members of the Assembly’s office in charge of drawing up over 200 oral questions to be raised by the various deputies to the government.

These oral questions have been left in abeyance and haven’t been conveyed up to now to the relevant ministries in addition to the planned adoption by the MPs of up to 15 outstanding draft-laws after their prior adoption by the much elusive council of ministers’ meeting to be chaired by President Abdellaziz Bouteflika himself.

It should be noted that such a paramount executive meeting has not been held for about 9 months now on account of President Bouteflika’s protracted illness.

Likewise, the absence of the Assembly’s speaker Larbi Ould Khelifa who’s just returned to the country after medical treatment in a Paris hospital, has also hindered the smooth running of several major structures of the lower house of Parliament with on prime focus the recent pandemonium induced by the internecine struggle among FLN representatives within the legislative body.

On account of manifold damaging disruptions, the national popular assembly has scheduled not more than 30 oral questions to the government since the start of the current parliamentary session.