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Bahrain: “Fragile” Constitutional Amendments, boosting up the Crisis, and not resonating locally and internationally - b.The possibility of ousting the Prime Minister
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- Published on Saturday, 26 May 2012 00:57
- Bahrain: “Fragile” Constitutional Amendments, boosting up the Crisis, and not resonating locally and internationally
- 1-The Content of the Constitutional Amendments the Extent of its Approach to the Demands of the Opposition
- a.Hypothesis of forming a government that is of a peoples’ will
- b.The possibility of ousting the Prime Minister
- c.The level of the partnership between the ruling family and the parliament
- d. The extent to which the “elected” is empowered over the “appointed” in terms of legislation
- e.The reality of controls in the elected council
- f.The sanctification of the authorities solely in the monetary affairs
- g.The problem of political naturalization
- 2-The Mechanism of Constitutional Amendments
- 3-The Local, Regional, and International Opinion regarding the Constitutional Amendments
- 4-The Ability of the Constitutional Amendments on Containing the Bahraini Matter
- Summary
- Table of the Constitutional Amendments Approved by the King of Bahrain on May 3, 2012
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B. The possibility of ousting the Prime Minister
The constitutional amendments in (Article 67 / d) stated that if the "two-thirds of the Representatives Council members agreed on the inability of cooperation with the Prime Minister, the matter shall be raised to the king for taking a decision, either by exempting the Prime Minister and assigning of a new Cabinet or dissolve the Representatives Council." Prior to the current constitutional amendments, this process was proceeding with only the consent of the National Council (ConsultativeShura and Representatives chambers)(7).
Within a “gloomy darkness" a description that could apply to the constitutional amendments, this amendment may be relatively speaking considered a positive point, but the requirement oftwo-thirds majority that is impossible – due to mass of pro-authority political distribution circuits - reveals the arbitrariness against the right of Parliament in holding the Prime Minister accountable, who has ruled Bahrain for more than forty years.
