Palestinian Parliament to hold 1st Session since 2006
Palestinian Parliament to hold 1st Session since 2006
The
Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) will hold its first session since
2006 after a quarter of lawmakers demanded to convene an emergency
session without delay, according to media reports.
MOSCOW
(Sputnik) — According to Palestinian legislation, the PLC is to hold a
session if one-fourth of its members demands it. Khuraishah said that
this time at least 16 members of the Fatah movement and all Hamas
lawmakers requested to hold an emergency session. "The session will
address the issue of the latest decision by Palestinian President
Mahmoud Abbas to remove the immunity of five of the lawmakers in his
Fatah movement… We will issue a resolution regarding the illegality and
unconstitutionality of the move," Hassan Khuraishah, second PLC
vice-president, told the Gulf News media outlet on Tuesday.
"The
session will address the issue of the latest decision by Palestinian
President Mahmoud Abbas to remove the immunity of five of the lawmakers
in his Fatah movement… We will issue a resolution regarding the
illegality and unconstitutionality of the move," Hassan Khuraishah,
second PLC vice-president, told the Gulf News media outlet on Tuesday.
He added that the official emergency session request was submitted to the PLC vice-president Ahmad Bahar.
Under
the Palestinian legislation lawmakers are granted diplomatic immunity
from arrest and prosecution. However, the ruling of the Palestinian
Constitutional Court from November 2016 gave the president undisputed
power to waive the immunity of lawmakers. Earlier in December Abbas
decided to remove the immunity of five members of the parliament, who
were later charged with theft of public funds, arms trading and
defamation. The Palestinian parliament has not any sessions for a decade
since 2006 when the Islamist movement of Hamas won the parliamentary
elections.
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