The
Chairperson of the Central Africa Caucus of the Pan African Parliament, Hon. Elise Loum Ndoadoumngue Neloumsei has
called for an urgent virtual plenary session of the PAP.
In
a letter to the Acting President of PAP Rt.
Hon. Djamal Bouras dated January 22 and copied to the Vice President Chief Fortune Charumbira and chairpersons
of the other regional caucuses, Hon.
Elise Loum recalled an earlier letter of July 12, 2020 to the Acting PAP
President where the Central Africa Caucus requested that a virtual session of
PAP be convened to ensure that the continental parliament kept functioning
despite the COVID-19 pandemic which made “face-to-face meetings” impossible.
Hon. Loum observed that all international
organizations have adapted to the COVID-19 reality by using new technologies
for virtual meetings and wondered why PAP failed to adapt, noting that Article
28(1) of the PAP’s Rules of Procedure mandates the Parliament to hold at least
two ordinary sessions per year.
Continuing, the Hon. Loum stated that by not holding the statutorily mandated sessions. “we
are giving the impression that PAP as an organization is incapable of showing resilience
in the face of such adversities, unlike other organs of the African Union (AU)”.
Hon. Loum further pointed out the vacancies
that exist in the Bureau as well as the “lack of representatives by majority of
the caucuses in the Bureau” which implies that the Bureau cannot form a quorum
to validly take critical decisions on behalf of PAP.
“The very large numbers of
new members (more than a hundred) who are waiting to take their oath are all
reasons that militate in favour of the need for virtual plenary session of PAP”.
African
Parliamentary News recalls that the last session of the
parliament was held in October 2019 and since then, several African countries
have held parliamentary elections. As a result, the supposed five-member Bureau
now has only two members with the nest election statutorily coming up in May
2021.
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