2023-05-16 01:23:09
The deputies of the 9th legislature of the National Assembly of Benin were this Monday, May 15, 2023 in plenary session at the Palace of Governors. Only one item was on the agenda of the said meeting chaired by President Louis Gbèhounou Vlavonou. This concerns the appointment of representatives of the National Assembly of Benin within regional parliaments (ECOWAS Parliament, Pan-African Parliament, CIP-UEMOA), the Beninese Commission for Human Rights, the Authority of personal data protection and the High Court of Justice. The process initiated by President Louis Gbèhounou Vlavonou unfortunately did not come to an end.
We will wait a little longer to know the representatives of the Beninese Parliament within the regional parliaments and certain institutions of the Republic. Seized by the President of the National Assembly of Benin for study and proposal of methods of appointment of the representatives of the Beninese deputies in these various institutions, the Law Commission chaired by the Honorable Orden Alladatin submitted to the plenary the reports that it has products. But unfortunately ! All did not go as planned. Indeed, the general debate which followed the presentation of the said reports gave rise to a variety of points of view which unfortunately do not agree with the conclusions of the Commission of the laws…
Proposal for methods of appointing deputies within the regional parliaments
Based on the decisions DCC 09-002 of January 8, 2009 and DCC 09-015 of February 19, 2009 of the Constitutional Court on the one hand and on the other hand articles 48.2 and 55.2 of the internal regulations of the Assembly National Assembly as well as the main texts governing the ECOWAS Parliament, the Interparliamentary Committee of Uemoa (CIP-UEMOA) and the Pan-African Parliament, the Commissioners agreed that the distribution of seats be done on the basis of the principle with constitutional value majority/minority proportional representation.
For the deputies Augustin Ahouanvoébla, Gérard Gbenonchi, Malick Gomina, Charles Toko, Aké Natondé, to name a few, the proposals made by the Law Commission dangerously undermine the principle of equity which should normally govern these designations . Better, they have, in their majority considered that the decisions of the Constitutional Court on which the Commission of the laws based itself to justify its choices are null and void… For Charles Toko of the Republican Bloc party for example, it is necessary to take great account of the provisions of the internal regulations of the National Assembly of Benin which now make political parties full entities in the animation of political life within the National Assembly of Benin. This is also the same point of view as defended by the deputy Aké Natonde of the Progressive Union.
For the Honorable Atchadé of the Democrats party, it is no longer normal to return to this debate that the deputies of the presidential majority are leading today, the question having been decided when the declaration of the constitution of the parliamentary groups of the 9th legislature of the National Assembly of Benin. He sought the authority of President Vlavonou not to allow his comrades of the movement to have this debate which does not honor the National Assembly.
“The Commission based itself on the decisions of the Constitutional Court which have just been dismantled by fellow deputies. Whether we base the modalities on the decisions of 2009 or not, we do not arrive at the same results. And that’s the crux of the matter. The Commission discussed and relied on five case law of the Court, in this case the two decisions that we have cited. If the plenary considers these references to be bad, it is up to them to make a very clear decision,” said President Orden Alladatin. He underlined the conflict that has arisen between the notions of political configuration and parliamentary majority-minority, especially when certain parliamentary groups believe that they are not in the category in which the Commission has classified them. He ended by calling on the plenary to take responsibility.
“I note that there was no mistake, there was no misinterpretation, but it was a matter of choosing between two options,” said President Louis Gbèhounou Vlavonou. Before suspending the session, President Vlavonou suggested that the observations raised by each party in relation to the notions of presidential majority and parliamentary majority-minority be incorporated into the various reports presented by the Law Commission.
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