‘Staunch partners’ in nation building | THE DAILY TRIBUNE | KINGDOM OF BAHRAIN

‘Staunch partners’ in nation building | THE DAILY TRIBUNE | KINGDOM OF BAHRAIN

The Shura Council has discussed more than 100 decrees, draft and law proposals, as well as projects, during the fifth legislative’s third ordinary session. There were a total of 30 sessions, 29 of which were regular and one was extraordinary. This was based on the statistics and official data issued by the Council’s General Secretariat. Twelve law decrees were approved by the parliament during the third session. The parliament and its committees discussed 61 draft laws, nine final accounts, and 20 law proposals. The draft laws received the highest percentage of the total topics discussed by the Council, reaching 60 per cent, followed by proposals for laws at 19 per cent. The percentage of decrees in laws reached 12 per cent and the final accounts for 9 per cent of the total topics. There were 29 draft laws and 32 projects referred from previous sessions. Thirteen projects were approved, and the House of Representatives was notified of them for referral to the government. The Shura Council, under the chairmanship of Ali bin Saleh Al Saleh, and the House of Representatives, under Speaker Fawzia bint Abdulla Zainal, agreed to reject nine draft laws. The Council returned 11 projects to the House