Milli Mejlis committee chairman comments on initiative to lift the restriction of the election of Ombudsperson for second term

The committee chairman said it needed in the signatures of 63 members of the parliament to put the amendments to the Constitutional law to vote. He said the Constitutional law was adopted with majority of 95 votes and put to revote six months later. “The law comes into effect after its adoption in revote”.

Huseynov said the amendments concerned two points of article 4. “The amendment concerns the replacing of restriction of the election of Ombudsperson for single term with the double term”.

The committee chairman said he normally valued the amendment.

It is not known whether the proposed amendment will concern the incumbent Ombudsperson or not. The law is not banning the concerning of new amendment the incumbent Ombudsperson. According to legal procedure, after the ending of term of the incumbent Commissioner’s office, the President introduces three candidates to the parliament, which elects and approves one of them to the post of Human Rights Commissioner.

Ombudsperson Elmira Suleymanova ends the term of her office on July 2, 2009, chief of the Ombudsperson’s press service Zemfira Maharramli told APA.

Regarding the amendment to the law on Prosecutor’s Office, the parliament sources told APA Milli Mejlis had not received such document from the subject of legislative initiatives yet.

There is a restriction for the election of General Prosecutor in this law, which banned more than two 5-year terms of the General Prosecutor. Incumbent General Prosecutor of Azerbaijan was approved to this post on April 25, 2009 and term of his office will end on April 25, 2010.

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