Outgoing parliament concludes final session

The 18th People’s Majlis concluded its final sitting on Monday and broke for a one-month recess before the end of its five-year term.

Several pieces of government-sponsored legislation and amendments proposed by outgoing lawmakers to grant new benefits upon leaving office remained unfinished when the final legislative session drew to a close. The unfinished bills would have to be resubmitted after MPs-elect are sworn in on May 28.

Concluding the sitting, Speaker Gasim Ibrahim noted that the outgoing parliament’s productivity was 94 percent with 177 bills completed during the past five years.

Earlier on Monday morning, President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih joined his former colleagues and Majlis staff for a maahefun, a traditional pre-Ramadan gathering for a meal before the month of fasting.