The Algerian Parliament limits the publication of the “secret information” deputies

The Assembly of the Algerian National People announced, on Sunday, the amendments proposed by the “Committee for Legal Affairs and Freedoms”, to introduce it to the internal system of the first Parliament room, which would have raised the anger of a sector of deputies, as it includes restrictions on the publication of their observations relating to the government work and the rankings of Parliament classified “secret” or “

A new article has been included in the “internal system”, according to the document seen by the “Middle East”, stating that “the Deputies of the Council are prohibited to publish or disclose any document or information of a secret nature, relating to the work of the Council, to its internal resolutions or any issuance relating to state security or any other question that is reserved on the basis of the laws in force.”

“Violation of constitutional duties”

The article “152 bis” indicates that “the documents and secret information is that classified in this way by the Council Office or from anywhere concerned, according to the laws in force, or that have been determined in relation to the security of the State or its higher interests”, highlighting that the dissemination or publication of these documents or information by any deputy is a violation of its established and to provide. The question “.

The same article states that “no deputy can use these documents or secret information for personal purposes or benefit of parties or parties outside the Council and the deputy must maintain the confidentiality of the information received during the execution of his parliamentary tasks”.

The amendment document is based on article 87 bis 1 “of the law that regulates the relationship between the Parliament and the government rooms, to justify the prohibition on the publication of” secret “documents, which states:” A member of Parliament is prohibited to publish information and documents obtained in all the media, in particular those who damage the interests of violated public order. “The document refers to” information and documents of a secret and strategic nature, relating to the national defense and the security of the internal and external state, to the vital interests of the national and those relating to facts that are subject to a judicial procedure “.

“Sensitive sectors”

A member of the Parliament, who asked not to be appointed, said that “the reason for the prohibition included in the text is linked to the publication of deputies of some ministers to their questions, including information on the sectors that the Government has estimated that the debts do not refer to the responses of the publication of the authorizations of the publication of the publication of the authorizations of the publication of the publication of publications of publications, They refer to their responses to publish authorizations of the publication of publications publications “.

It is interesting to note that many parliamentarians publish the written answers to the questions they raised to the ministers, on their accounts on social media platforms. It is often widely republished on the websites inside and outside the country, and this has become annoying for the government, according to the same deputy, who confirmed that the proposal of this amendment was presented by the President of the National Council, Ibrahim Boughal, to the deputies, to the deputies for the Pla Provenctions, which were the deputies, the deputies, the deputies, the deputies, the deputies, the deputies, the deputies. Deputies, deputies, deputies, deputies, deputies, deputies, deputies, deputies, deputies, deputies, deputies, deputies, deputies, deputies, deputies, deputies, voting filing. At that time, the debate on the text is expected.