Ministry of Justice Holds Workshop on Democratic Transformation

The Constitution and Research Department at the Ministry of Justice Wednesday morning organized a Workshop on the Democratic Transformation from a Constitutional Perspective.

The Chairman of the Training Department at the ministry, Tariq Genawi, affirmed in his address at the workshop the importance of legal reform in light of the current constitutional and political situation by simplifying the comparative constitutional vision of the issues of democratic transformation and constitution-making and the role of parliament in achieving democracy through rational parliamentary practice.

He pointed to the role of the Ministry of Justice in expanding the principle of the rule of law through its specialized administrations and legal departments in the state organs in the center and the states, stressing the important tasks of the Constitutional and research Affairs in adopting a methodology of consultation and coordination internally with specialized departments in the ministry and outside it and with organizations concerned with the constitution and the experts at the universities and the research centers.

Genawi has affirmed the necessity of completing establishment of the constitutional institutions, including the Legislative Assembly, the Constitutional Court, and commissions specialized in the areas of legal reform, human rights, transitional justice, the constitution-making and the elections.

He praised the

efforts of the experts and organizations who have been cooperating with the Ministry of Justice, stressing that the ministry will adopt the outcome of the workshop.

On his part, the Head of the Constitutional Affairs and Research Department, Tariq Al-Majzoub, affirmed that the workshop comes within a series of research workshops in the fields of the constitution, which begins by linking the processes of democratic transformation and constitution-making, indicating that the workshop also addressed the objective dimension of the constitution throughout the transitional period and the options available for the permanent constitution.

The workshop, which was held with the participation of a number of experts from universities, research centers and the civil society organizations, discussed a paper on the constitution-making and another paper on the parliament and the democratic practice.