Strengthening the motion of censure as a Mechanism to raise the Government's Political resposability in the 2020 Constitutional Amendment

The legislative power has several oversight mechanisms against the executive power, and the mechanism of the motion of censure is considered one of the most important, and it was enshrined in the Algeria’s constitutions starting with the 1989 and 1996 constitutions, as well as the 2016 constitutional amendment. However, political practice in Algeria has proven the reluctance of many governments in the Algerian political system to submit the annual statement of general policy in many successive governments. This is perhaps due to the constitutional founder linking the motion of censure to the statement of general policy, in addition to surrounding it with some strict conditions, which prompted the constitutional founder, in light of the constitutional amendment of 2020, to strengthen this mechanism, as it responded to the jurisprudential demands that called for expanding the motion of censure and not linking it only to the statement of general policy. This was embodied in the text of Article 161, which expanded the actions that raise the government’s responsibility through the mechanism of the motion of censure, which now includes another means in addition to the statement of general policy, namely the interpellation, and thus the parliamentary interpellation became a means of oversight that raises the resignation of the government in the event that the motion of censure was voted on.