Thursday 14 February 2019

More power for the regional governors

. . . The USDP has submitted a bill of constitutional amendment to the union parliament. The bill proposes to handover the authority of appointing the chief minister from the president to the respective regional hluttaws. Currently, the president enjoys the power to choose and appoint the chief minister among the MPs of the respective hluttaws according to the section 261 of the 2008 constitution.
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. . . If the super-majority over-75 percentage of the union parliament agrees to pass the bill, it will be a leap-frog evolution of the state-making process of Myanmar towards a federal union.
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But, wait a minute!
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. . .What will happen if the regional governors are free from the intervention and unanswerable to the president? The separation and division of power between the president and the chief ministers, in other words, power sharing between the central and regional governments will need to be clearer. If a dispute occurs, the constitutional tribunal court has a jurisdiction over it.
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. . . Again, the function of the constitutional tribunal will become more important than the current situation. The current tribunal court composes of nine members nominated three each by the president, and the speakers of the two houses with equal term of office with the president.
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. . . The question here is whether it is necessary to make some changes in the composition and authority of the constitutional tribunal court if the regional governors are given more power and legitimacy.
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What do you think?

1 comment:

  1. here I missed one point that is the different role of the governor and the chief minister. What I assume here is they are the same.

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