The lawmakers who will bring loudspeakers or other objects for disturbing order or interrupting the sittings of Parliament will be penalized. This is provided in the amended Regulations of Parliament that were passed in the first reading by a majority of votes on November 21. Employees of the legislature’s Special Service will invite the MPs who break the regulations to leave the assembly hall and will escort them out. This also applies to the MPs who will try to block the entrance to the assembly hall or the Parliament’s rostrum, IPN reports.
If the MPs do not obey and do not leave the assembly hall, they will lose 25% of the lawmaker’s allowance for every violation. The putting up of resistance or insulting of the Special Service’s employees will be penalized with 50% of the size of the allowance for every case. The use of force by an MP will be punished administratively.
Under the changes, one question must be formulated within one minute, not two minutes as now. The speeches will not exceed seven minutes per parliamentary group and five minutes per MP. The sitting chair can limit the scheduling of speeches. The lawmakers may be obliged to refer in their speeches exclusively to the discussed topic. Otherwise, the sitting chair will disconnect the microphone. The reply to reply is banned. Only debates and speeches on the agenda items will be allowed.
Every parliamentary group will be able to ask for breaks of up to 30 minutes for finalizing the political decisions on the subjects included in the agenda. Cumulatively, the length of the breaks asked by one faction during a sitting cannot exceed 60 minutes. The registered bills that will not be included in the agenda during two years of the registration will become null and void. The bills that lost topicality and those that remained without authors can be rejected by Parliament based on a common list and competent commissions’ reports.
During voting, the MPs will not be allowed to speak. They will have to keep silent and to remain in their seats.
