Abdel Latif Wehbe, Minister of Justice, revealed, on Monday, the existence of legal obstacles that surprised his ministry, and prevented the removal of the digital platform for married couples.
Wehbe said, during the official launch ceremony of new digital services for the Ministry of Justice, that the ministry worked on seven projects, but today it is launching only three, while the ministry was surprised by the existence of legal obstacles to launching the platform for married couples.
Wehbe explained that there is a legal requirement that prohibits the electronic circulation of personal status documents, stressing that his ministry is working to cancel this requirement that is included in one of the laws.
Last December, the Minister of Justice announced the completion of preparing a register for married couples related to the digitization of marriage contracts through an electronic platform, so that we know about every citizen who is “married, divorced, or faithful,” according to the then minister’s expression.
The database, according to what the minister explained, is a digital platform for a database of married couples that enables identification of each married person.
Through this platform, the Ministry of Justice seeks to “prevent fraud by husbands who go to other cities to obtain a celibacy certificate to marry secretly without the knowledge of their wives.”
In his speech today, Wehbe said that his ministry will organize an exam for the integration of 200 technicians in the field of digitization, to provide services within the courts.
The government official added, “We are also moving towards abolishing the enforcement and notification offices inside the courts, and making do with an electronic platform that takes the place of that.”