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Responsibilities of the Bureau

The Bureau assists the President in directing the National Transition Council. Each college that makes it up exercises specific responsibilities, set by the Rules of Procedure.

Quick access Vice-Presidents6 Quaestors2 Parliamentary Secretaries6 Over the course of a sitting Reference text

Reference text: Rules of Procedure of the National Transition Council, provisions relating to the Bureau (Article 12 et seq.).

Who does what

Three colleges, three responsibilities

Around the President, the members of the Bureau share the direction of sittings, financial management and the regularity of deliberations.

College

The Vice-Presidents

Ensure the continuity of the chairing of proceedings.

  • Replace the President, when necessary, in order of precedence.
  • When a Vice-President chairs a sitting, he or she exercises the same powers of direction and order as the President of the CNT.
  • Sit on the Conference of Presidents, the body that schedules the work of the CNT.

College

The Quaestors

Ensure the sound financial management of the institution.

  • Work under the direction and supervision of the President of the CNT.
  • Give their opinion on any new expenditure.
  • Prepare the CNT budget, under the direction of the President and in agreement with the Bureau.

College

The Parliamentary Secretaries

Ensure the regularity of deliberations and ballots.

  • Register the members who ask to speak.
  • Supervise roll calls.
  • Record the acts and count the ballots.
  • At the end of the deliberations, one of them signs, together with the President, all the texts that have been deliberated upon.

In practice

Over the course of a plenary sitting

The Bureau's responsibilities are exercised in practice at every stage of the Chamber's proceedings, from the opening of the sitting to the signing of the adopted texts.

  1. President · Vice-Presidents

    Opening and chairing

    The President directs the sitting; in his absence, a Vice-President replaces him in order of precedence with the same powers.

  2. Parliamentary Secretaries

    Debates

    The Parliamentary Secretaries register the members who ask to speak and keep the list of speakers.

  3. Parliamentary Secretaries

    Roll call and ballot

    The Parliamentary Secretaries supervise roll calls, record the acts and count the ballots.

  4. President · Parliamentary Secretary

    Closing and signature

    A Parliamentary Secretary signs, together with the President, the texts that have been deliberated upon.

  5. Quaestors

    Outside sittings: finances

    The Quaestors prepare the budget and give their opinion on any new expenditure, under the direction of the President.

Reference text

The responsibilities, paragraph by paragraph

  1. § 1

    The Bureau assists the President in directing the National Transition Council.

  2. § 2

    The Vice-Presidents replace the President, when necessary, in order of precedence. In that case, when a Vice-President chairs a sitting, he or she exercises the same powers of direction and order as the President of the CNT.

  3. § 3

    The Quaestors work under the direction and supervision of the President of the CNT. They give their opinion on any new expenditure. They are responsible for preparing the budget under the direction of the President and in agreement with the Bureau.

  4. § 4

    The Parliamentary Secretaries play a proven role in the deliberations. They are responsible for registering the members who ask to speak, supervising roll calls, recording the acts and counting the ballots.

  5. § 5

    At the end of the deliberations, one of the Parliamentary Secretaries signs, together with the President, all the texts that have been deliberated upon.