The Milli Majlis committees for public association and religious entities and for law policy and state-building discussed the draft amendments to the Law ‘On Political Parties’ in the second reading at their joint online meeting held on 25 December.

Deputy Chair of the Milli Majlis and Chairman of the Committee for Public Associations and Religious Entities Fazayil Ibrahimli remarked at the meeting that the Bill had been discussed vigorously during the first reading in the Milli Majlis and that certain opinions had been stated with respect to it.

Vice Speaker described the document in hand as a very democratic one before emphasising the current drafting of a new law on political parties that was going to incorporate the ideas voiced in the Parliament. The amendment to Article 17-1 of the effective law that are proposed in this humanist Bill will help solve financial problems of what political parties would win mandates at elections to new conventions of the Milli Majlis and become represented in the latter therefore. The same applies to newly-registered political parties.

Then, First Deputy Chair of the Milli Majlis and Chairman of the Committee for Law Policy and State-Building Ali Huseynli went through the views and suggestions made known during the first reading of the draft amendments to the Law ‘On Political Parties’. Mr Huseynli also shed light on a number of components of the Bill. Those who had made their views and offers known previously were the political party leaders Razi Nurullayev, Fazil Mustafa, Sabir Rustamkhanli and Tahir Karimli as well as MP Malahat Ibrahimghizi. Mr Huseynli commented on the Article 17-1 amendments thoroughly again.

The MPs Azer Badamov and Razi Nurullayev praised the tabled amendments and said that they found the document quite ready for the second reading. The law put centre-stage the matter of fair distribution amongst political parties of the allocations coming from the State Budget, they said.

Following the discussions by the members of both committees and the political party leaders it was recommended that the Bill should be submitted for the second reading at a plenary sitting of the Milli Majlis.   

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