喀麦隆:多重危机中的议会(联合国)审查

IF 1.5 Q1 LAW
Numvi Gwaibi
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摘要

摘要:根据宪法,喀麦隆议会有多项职能,包括制定法律的权力。与大多数立法机构一样,议会也有权在不熟悉的异常危机背景下履行熟悉的代表职能。然而,议会在立法领域的权限受到总统的严重限制,总统既不对总理负责,也不对立法机构负责。行政部门通过控制议会法案的可受理标准,进一步主导了立法议程,这使总统提出的法案具有自豪感。新冠肺炎疫情爆发后,政府根据世界卫生组织的建议制定了应对计划,并推出了10亿非洲法郎的团结基金。在对新冠肺炎资金管理不善的持续指控,以及一份指控大规模挪用公共资金的审计报告泄露后,喀麦隆议会传唤财政部长对资金挪用负责。然而,在专门进行这项工作的会议召开24小时后,该项目从议程上消失了。本文利用主要和次要数据、法律和司法文本等,记录喀麦隆议会如何应对过去几十年来影响该国的多重危机。
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Cameroon: parliamentary (un)scrutiny amid multiple crises
ABSTRACT Cameroon’s parliament is constitutionally mandated to perform multiple functions, including the power to make laws. Like most legislatures, parliament is also empowered to perform familiar representative functions during the unfamiliar abnormal context of a crisis. However, parliament’s competence in the legislative domain is severely restricted by the President, who is neither accountable to the Prime Minister nor the legislature. The executive further dominates the legislative agenda by controlling the admissibility criteria of bills in parliament, which gives pride of place to that introduced by the President. Following the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, the government, in line with WHO recommendations, developed a response plan and also rolled out a solidarity fund of One billion francs CFA. Following persistent allegations of mismanagement of Covid-19 funds, and the leaking of an audit report that alleged massive embezzlement of public funds, Cameroon’s parliament summoned the Minister of Finance to account for the financial misappropriations. However, 24 hours to the session dedicated for this exercise, the item disappeared from the agenda. This paper utilises primary and secondary data, legal and judicial texts, among others, to document how Cameroon’s parliament has responded to the multiple crises that have impacted the country over the past decades.
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期刊介绍: The Theory and Practice of Legislation aims to offer an international and interdisciplinary forum for the examination of legislation. The focus of the journal, which succeeds the former title Legisprudence, remains with legislation in its broadest sense. Legislation is seen as both process and product, reflection of theoretical assumptions and a skill. The journal addresses formal legislation, and its alternatives (such as covenants, regulation by non-state actors etc.). The editors welcome articles on systematic (as opposed to historical) issues, including drafting techniques, the introduction of open standards, evidence-based drafting, pre- and post-legislative scrutiny for effectiveness and efficiency, the utility and necessity of codification, IT in legislation, the legitimacy of legislation in view of fundamental principles and rights, law and language, and the link between legislator and judge. Comparative and interdisciplinary approaches are encouraged. But dogmatic descriptions of positive law are outside the scope of the journal. The journal offers a combination of themed issues and general issues. All articles are submitted to double blind review.
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