AKP Presents Reforms
Meanwhile AKP is preparing to present a raft of constitutional amendments to parliament, covering many important issues ranging from making it more difficult for courts to close parties, to gender equity and reform.
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The package will include the establishment of a political ethics commission. Laws concerning political campaign financing and the duties and authorities of deputies will be revamped. The package will introduce amendments to the law on political parties, the elections and electoral registries law, the property declaration law and the bribery and anti-corruption law. Legal reforms concerning women and children that were originally planned for inclusion in a new constitution will be put into this package as constitutional amendments.
The package introduces the concept of an ombudsman — a public authority that has right to inspect the activities of state agencies on the criteria of human rights and ethics — into Turkish law and improves the law on the Supreme Court of Accounts to oblige politicians to declare the assets and property they own. It also changes provisions in the Constitution and some other laws that previously led to a law returning assets to minorities being canceled by the Constitutional Court.
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