In a meeting headed by Abubakr Ba Dheeb, the NDC’s Consensus Committee approved a plan for the coming weeks of NDC activity on Sunday.
At the meeting, the committee members agreed to specify a final date for working groups to submit their respective plans.
The committee also approved a technical committee report concerning working group reports, notes and recommendations, as well as a voting mechanism for decisions in the NDC’s second plenary session.
The approved report included a mechanism designed to provide working groups with an opportunity to discuss and make use of notes and recommendations from June 25 to 29.
From there, groups will approve or reject recommendations en route to the submission of their respective reports, which will be voted on by the NDC membership from June 30 to July 3.
Three working groups failed to reach a consensus on key issues to be included in their final reports in time for the NDC’s second plenary session: the Southern Issue, Sa’ada Issue and State-Building Working Groups.
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Each working group will have technical committees tasked with taking and gathering member notes from the plenary session; the notes will then be discussed within each working group, in accordance with the following criteria:
Member notes should be presented by at least two political components from each working group.
It should be presented by 10% or more of members who have tasked with reading notes and presenting them to the full conference membership.
50% of members of working groups or technical committee should accept any proposal or recommendation for discussion in working group meetings.
The full NDC membership should gather from June 25 to June 29 to listen as working group final reports are presented.
Working groups will discuss recommendations in the following manner:
Constitutional and legal items which have been agreed upon by group members and which don’t contain any notes shouldn’t be discussed again.
Constitutional and legal items with notes must be discussed and include approved amendments in accordance with working group’s procedural rules with the aim of reaching a consensus; if a consensus is not reached, the amendments will be rejected.
Constitutional and legal items which fail to receive consensus approval by a specified time and which were previously presented before the full conference membership should be submitted to the Conciliation Commission.
Recommendations which have been agreed upon by respective working groups shouldn’t be submitted for a vote at a general session.
All working groups should approve their final reports with a specified timeframe.
June 30 has been set as the date for the third part of the second plenary session to commence. It should operate in accordance with the following guidelines:
Constitutional and legal items which have been agreed upon by working groups without any notes or objections from the general session should be presented together and be submitted for approval to the head of the general session.
Constitutional and legal items which have been amended at the general session will be included in working group reports, to then be discussed one at a time by the individual working groups.
Constitutional and legal items which have been agreed upon at the general session and which notes have been added to,
If new notes on agreed-upon constitutional and legal item have not been agreed upon within a specified timeframe, working group chairpersons will submit the notes to the Conciliation Commission.
Recommendations presented by group chairpersons at general sessions will not be subject to votes.
Constitutional and legal items will be subject to either a ‘yes’, ‘no’, or ‘abstain’ vote.
NDC members should be present at conciliation sessions to vote; their attendance will be based on votes, and not on being present for sessions. Members who participate in at least 90% of votes will be considered ‘present’.
Discussions are not to be re-opened in voting sessions.
