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Article: ALGERIA: ALGERIAN PARLIAMENT - NATIONAL ASSEMBLY: WORK BELOW EXPECTATIONS.(Brief Article)
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- IPR Strategic Business Information Database
- Article date:
- August 27, 2000
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According to the North Africa Journal, harsh criticism against the nation's legislative body comes also from within and from the top of that institution. During his speech for the closing of the national assembly's spring session, its president, Abdelkader Bensalah recognized that the activity at the national assembly has been below the ability and expectations of the members of parliament (MPs). Bensallah implicated the executive branch, the government, in this slow activity. But while joining the rest of the Algerian political establishment in criticizing the parliament, Bensalah warned that "laws and legislation are not ...