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The Committee on Rules of Procedure, Immunity, Parliamentary Laws and Electoral Laws held a teleconference on Friday to discuss the bill on the delegation of legislative power to the prime minister.

Published the:  28/03/2020

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The Committee on Rules of Procedure, Immunity, Parliamentary Laws and Electoral Laws held a teleconference on Friday to discuss the bill on the delegation of legislative power to the prime minister.

According to a press release of the House of People's Representatives (HPR), the meeting was an opportunity for the presidents of the parliamentary blocs to discuss the draft law 30/2020 which delegates to the Prime Minister the publication of decree-laws, in accordance with Article 70 of the Constitution (second paragraph).

The bill in question empowers the Prime Minister to promulgate decree-laws for a period of two months in the fields set out in Article 65 of the Constitution. The purpose of enacting this law is to deal with the impact of the spread of the coronavirus, to ensure the continuity of vital services in the country and to make the executive power's action more effective in the light of the rapidly changing situation.

The members of the committee and the presidents of the parliamentary blocs unanimously approved "the delegation of the legislative power to the Prime Minister, in order to guarantee the promptness and efficiency of the measures to be taken in these exceptional circumstances in which the country is going through."

However, "the delegation of powers should be limited to a number of fields which are related to the fight against the new coronavirus, such as health, security, social and environmental fields," they said. The members of the committee ruled out the possibility of implementing all the articles included in the bill.

It was agreed to schedule a teleconference on Saturday, starting at 11 a.m., for the hearing of the party that presented this initiative and two legal experts.

The deputies called for compliance with the deadlines set by the rules of procedure, which stipulate that the examination of the law in question should be speeded up.