During the closing ceremony of the Senate’s first ordinary session, the institution’s leadership issued a firm call to the executive branch. Huguette Yvonne Nyana Ekoume-Awori, President of the Senate, advocated for a significant streamlining of parliamentary operations through what she termed an “egalitarian transmission of texts” between the National Assembly and the Senate, in strict accordance with bicameral traditions.

The head of the upper house emphasized that the constitutional framework of a bicameral system should not reduce the Senate to a mere rubber-stamp body. She argued that the institution must not be forced to simply react to the constraints of the government’s schedule. While certain documents, such as finance bills and constitutional amendments, follow specific priority rules, the President is demanding a new strategy for the initial filing of legislative projects.

The Senate asserts its legislative authority

Addressing the government, represented by Vice-President Hermann Immongault and several ministers, Huguette Yvonne Nyana Ekoume-Awori urged for greater fluidity and speed in the legislative shuttle. By distributing texts fairly and alternately between the two chambers from the start of the review process, the executive could avoid a recurring structural problem that hinders parliamentary efficiency.

Restoring this balance is intended to serve two primary purposes. First, it would eliminate the chronic congestion of files within a single assembly. Second, it would prevent the degradation of legal quality that often occurs when rigor is sacrificed to a “dictatorship of urgency.” This institutional reminder serves as a proposal for more harmonious cooperation between the powers of the state, ensuring that the Senate can fully exercise its prerogatives in the legislative process.