Amendment No. 50 | Doc. 14282 | 24 April 2017
The functioning of democratic institutions in Turkey
In the draft resolution, after paragraph 31, insert the following paragraph:
"The Assembly welcomes the strengthening of the the Grand National Assembly of Turkey (GNAT) through the new "Presidential Government System" as the President is envisaged to be an elective authority who could execute related duties within the framework of the laws put into force by the Assembly and serve the public within the limits of the budget approved by Parliament. The Assembly stresses that in the new system, the GNAT is the sole legislative authority since the authority to legislate is the monopoly of the GNAT, and the GNAT may, if it deems necessary and appropriate, make regulations in an area or on an issue regulated by Presidential Decree. The Assembly welcomes that, in such a case, the Presidential Decree becomes null and void and the superiority of making regulatory norms is the monopoly of the GNAT. Likewise, in the previous Turkish Parliamentary System, Parliament did not have the right to appoint members of the High Council of Judges and Prosecutors. However, the adopted constitutional changes allow the Turkish Parliament to appoint seven members. Thus the Assembly welcomes that the Turkish Parliament is vested with the power to assign seven members of the Board of Judges and Prosecutors for the first time in the republic's history."