Legislature

1) What constitutes a legislative body?
During the entire period surveyed under the OBS 2021, Sudan had no elected legislative body. Instead, there was an interim legislative authority composed of the cabinet and sovereign council together.

We considered this interim legislative authority to be the legislature given that they seem to be acting in this role (see here where the cabinet approved the 2021 budget on January 7, 2021 and sent it to the “joint council” – the interim legislative authority – on January 10, 2021 for final approval).

One question this raised was theoretical; for example, Article 21 of Sudan’s 2015 Audit Bureau Act says that 2/3 of the National Assembly must give their assent to the removal of the Auditor-General. Could this current interim legislative authority give their assent in the same way? Would Article 21 of the Audit Bureau Act only apply when there was an actual, elected National Assembly? In OBS 2021, we scored Sudan’s Question 120 a “b” as the Prime Minister of the Transitional Government removed the Auditor General as he overstayed his term, but if that hadn’t been the case, it’s unclear how we would have scored this question.