Pan-African Parliament’s Woes reflect a Crisis in Leadership
At its launch in 2004, the Pan-African Parliament (PAP) was hailed as a beacon of democracy and pan-Africanism. As the only institution where opposition political parties had a say in the African Union (AU), it was intended to provide oversight of the AU’s activities and to ensure implementation of its decisions. It now faces a legitimacy crisis, however, as Southern and North African countries have never held the presidency. Liesl Louw-Vaudran suggests in this article of the
Institute for Security Studies that the AU should initiate a drastic overhaul of the PAP, to make it a transparent and efficient institution. This would require improving its structure to bring the voting system in line with that of other AU bodies. She suggests that the AU Commission should integrate the PAP into its programmes as it hardly ever features on the main agenda of AU Summits, while the AU hierarchy routinely snubs PAP meetings.
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