The 1st session of the new parliament has ended, with lawmakers taking one month recess after three months of work from June to August, without passing a single bill out of the 51 bills put forward to the majlis. Link Haveeru.
As agents of the people, members of our parliament have an important obligation to hold the executive branch of the government accountable. If our democracy is to succeed with the separation of powers and improve the lives of our people, then our parliament has to respond to the challenges facing our nation. Parliament has the task to scrutinise, amend and facilitate the government's legislative agenda. None of this is being done by our parliament which is turning out to be a self-serving elite that is only interested in protecting powerful forces within the political parties. It appears that the peoples' representatives have forgotten to work for their constituents who elected them to protect the citizens' interests. Instead lawmakers have become very efficient to abide by their internal procedures and take leave, first from January to February, then the month of May and now September.
This is outrageous considering that the lawmakers gave themselves a 500 per cent increase in pay last year.
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