Africa-Press – South-Sudan. The delay by parties to the 2018 peace deal to agree on the allocation and distribution of parliamentary committees of the newly created national assembly in South Sudan has paralyzed the work of parliament.
The parliament which was reconstituted in May this year has been operating without parliamentary committees for months. The parties have reached deadlock on the allocation and distribution of parliamentary committees.
The designate-chairperson of the information committee in the reconstituted National Legislative Assembly, Paul Yoane Bonju, said the newly created national assembly has not yet formed parliamentary standing committees due to deadlock by parties on allocation and distribution of seats.
“The parliament can’t operate efficiency with standing specialized committees but we believe that if all goes well within the next few days you will hear the good news that the committees have been formed,” Bonju told reporters after parliamentary sitting on Wednesday.
Bonju said t that parliament can’t work effectively without standing in specialized committees. “The house can’t move without standing specialized committees and the distribution of standing specialized committee has to go back to signatories,” he said.
“The parties have not yet agreed on how to distribute the seats. They have not decided on what percentage the SPLM, SPLM-IO, SSOA, OPP, and FDs should get,” he added. He said parliamentary committees will be formed as soon as the parties to the peace deal reach an agreement on distributions of the seats.
“It is not the prerogative of the speaker but the parties to the agreement to decide on sharing of the seats of specialized committees and once they agreed, committees will be formed,” he said.
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