National Assembly: question and answer sessions postponed

2023-06-09 11:35:09

Obviously, nothing is going well between the Ntsay government and the deputies of Madagascar. For the question and answer session scheduled for yesterday in Tsimbazaza, the parliamentarians had the nerve to keep the Prime Minister and the members of his governments waiting for around thirty minutes. The Head of Government arrived on the scene around 10:30 a.m. But only 40, even 50 deputies out of the 151 elected were present in the room.

At the perch, the members of the permanent office were not complete. Christine Razanamahasoa, the President of the National Assembly, once again distinguished herself by her absence, as during the opening of the session to present the report of activities of the members of the government, a few days earlier. This seems to confirm the obvious tension between the president of the lower house and the head of government. A tension that dates back to the last parliamentary session when the majority of deputies signed a motion of censure against the government, but the motion was finally kicked into touch…for political reasons.

Despite the insufficient number of deputies, the absence of most members of the permanent office, the decision to start the session was taken around 11am. But MPs have once again turned around saying that it will not be correct to start the session with insufficient members of the permanent bureau. They then decided to proceed to a vote to postpone the meeting. It was then that three members of this permanent office made their entry into the perch, but the other deputies still decided to continue the vote and vote for the postponement.