Disclosure of the deadline for resolving the post of President of the Republic
Disclosure of the deadline for resolving the post of President of the Republic
2022-03-31
Today, Thursday, the legal expert, Safaa Al-Lami, revealed the deadline for electing the President of the Republic and the options that must be taken legally in the event of failure to resolve the position within the deadline.
Al-Lami said in a press interview that “the deadline for voting on the President of the Republic legally is the sixth of next April,” noting that “in the event that Parliament fails to resolve the position, as happened in previous sessions that did not have a quorum, the only legal option is to apply Article 61 first. of the constitution.”
Al-Lami added, “Article 61 includes two parts. The first is that the House of Representatives dissolves itself at a request submitted by two-thirds of its members to the presidency of the Council, which is an unlikely option in light of intersections and political strife,” noting that “the other way, which is the closest, is for the Prime Minister to submit a request to the President of the Republic to dissolve Parliament.” Because there is a constitutional vacuum, at which time the President of the Republic issues a republican decree to dissolve Parliament without the need for a vote by the House of Representatives.
He continued, “The only point of controversy in the second option is the absence of a legal text or interpretation of the authority of the caretaker government and the possibility of sending it to such a request to the President of the Republic, especially since the constitution did not talk about the powers of the interim government and limit them to the sentence of managing daily affairs and as long as the political blockage harms daily matters and leaves them hanging.” It falls within the authority of the interim government,” stressing that “the second option includes inviting the President of the Republic to hold elections on a specific date, and the government will remain until the elections are held to conduct daily affairs.”
And the House of Representatives, in its session held yesterday, Wednesday, failed to vote on the President of the Republic due to the lack of the legal quorum required to convene with two-thirds of the members of the House of Representatives.
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