Medelci broaches Algeria’s constitutional reforms at 100th session

President of the Constitutional Council Mourad Medelci broached Algeria’s constitutional reform process since the advent of the political pluralism in a speech at the 100th session of the Venice Commission which wrapped up Saturday in Rome.
As a guest of honour, Medelci said in his speech on “the ongoing constitutional changes in Algeria” that following the 1996’s constitutional revision, some amendments were introduced, including particularly the expansion of the Constitutional Council’s prerogatives in terms of monitoring organic laws before their promulgation and increasing the number of its components.  
The two-chamber system and the creation of a council of State are also among the amendments.
He said that in the beginning of the previous decade, the implementation of constitutional provisions to “complete the strengthening of the societal values relating to the national identity and the establishment of the rules of the cultural and linguistic evolution of all the social categories,” were necessary.
In this regard, he said that Tamazight was constitutionalized in April 2002 as a national language.
Medelci broached the initiative of President of the Republic Abdelaziz Bouteflika in 2008 for a deep constitutional revision aimed at strengthening the democratic and republican regime and further ensuring the exercise of human rights and fundamental liberties.