Resumption of the
election session of the Pan African
Parliament (PAP) that was suspended on June 1, 2021 has been tentatively
scheduled to hold from November 13 to 27, 2021 at the seat of the Parliament in
Midrand, South Africa.
The above dates are
however, subject to approval of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC) and provision of budget.
This was contained in
a letter dated September 1, 2021 signed by the Clerk of PAP, Mr. Vipya Harawa addressed to the Honourable Members of the PAP and copied to Clerks of National
Parliaments.
According to Mr. Harawa, election of the Bureau of
the PAP will take place on Tuesday
November 16 while the election of the Bureaus of Caucuses will take place on
Wednesday November 24.
Election of Bureaus of
Permanent Committees will take place on Thursday 18 and Friday 19, November.
Venue for the election
according to the Harawa, will be
changed to a different country “if a formal invitation is received in terms of
Rule 34 of the PAP’s Rules of Procedure”.
However, the said Rule
34 requires that such invitation by a member state to host a session must be
approved by the Bureau which is currently not in place. It will be interesting
to see how this plays out.
“Pursuant to Rule
15(2) of the Rules of Procedure of the Pan
African Parliament, no fresh submission of candidates for the positions of
President and Vice Presidents will be made as this is a resumption of the
suspended session”.
“Presidential
candidates stand as at June 1, 2021 unless
a candidate has fallen under a situation of ineligibility or a Caucus elects
to reconsider its nomination”.
“A regional caucus
which opts to reconsider its nominations for election to the office of
President or Vice President may do so provided that it resubmits the duly
nominated candidates to the Clerk on the nomination form prescribed…”.
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