Mauritanian parliament approves law of conflict

The Mauritanian House of Representatives approved the controversial “law on ?parliamentary conflict cases” on Monday evening, after delaying its presentation before the MPs more than once.? The new law states that the parliamentary assignment contradicts with the jobs done by employees and the public agents which the law states are not eligible for the parliamentary ?assignments. The most important are the armed forces and security agents, employees in power ?working in the state belonging to the directorate, judges, public inspectors and state inspectors, ?president and members of the journalism and audio visual authorities, president and member of the ?electoral committee, republic mediator, any person assigned to municipal trusteeship function or ?could be delegated to it, employees in charge of holding or monitoring the municipal accountings ?according to their jobs, directors of the regional state bodies and public institutions who exercise ?their functions in its directorate or have exercised these functions less than six months before, ?agents contracted by the municipality.? Minister of Interior Mohamed Ould Abilil said: “The project comes in the framework of the ?government’s commitment to formulate what has been agreed to by the two parties of the ruling ?majority dialogue and some opposition parties in legal texts.”? He added: “The electoral agenda was one of the main points of the dialogue, considering its ?developments took years, it became a demand on the national political level.”? The minister added: "It is obvious that setting a legal framework to organise the parliamentary ?conflict cases and the ineligibility for candidacy is a necessary step in order to establish a mature, ?transparent and fair legislative organisation which sets regulations to the electoral competition.”?