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Congress reduces quorum needed for key votes

byMichel Cousins
February 16, 2015
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By Libya Herald staff.

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The continuing GNC (File TV grab)

Tripoli, 15 February 2015:

The continuing Tripoli-based General National Congress voted today to reduce the quorum needed for key . . .[restrict]laws to be passed to a simple majority of those attending sessions.

The change means that it will be easier to:

  • pass the budget;
  • sack and replace Congress’ president, deputy presidents and members;
  • declare states of emergency and war;
  • approve a vote of no confidence in a government;
  • ratify international treaties;
  • reorganise local government; and
  • authorise general elections.

Under Paragraph 6 of Article 30 of the 2011 Constitutional Declaration, amended last March, 120 votes were needed to enact such legislation. The latest change means that if just 30 members attend and vote on a bill relating to such matters, 16 votes will be sufficient to pass it.

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The Congress also abolished Paragraph 8 of Article 30, which enabled any GNC member to call for a threshold of 120 vote on any issue under discussion, provided he or she were supported by five other members.

According to Congress, today’s amendments were passed by 93 out of 96 members attending. It is not clear why this number was considered quorate when last week’s attempt to pass the legislation was considered inquorate because there were, allegedly, only 100 members attending the session.

However, according to an explanation on the Congress website today from one of the continuing members, Abdul Qader Ehwaili, who sits on the Political Affairs Select Committee, the threshold needed to make constitutional changes such as today’s is now deemed to have reduced to 90 votes because the number of members taking part in Congress is down to 135.

Under the new legislation the Congress should now be able to easily replace those members who no longer turn up because they consider it has been replaced by the House of Representatives. [/restrict]

 
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