People’s Majlis is set to place forwarding the bill on empowering presidential inquiry commissions on Monday’s agenda.

While Parliament is to hold a sitting on Monday, the bill on empowering presidential inquiry commissions, formed to investigate prominent cases of murder and corruption, is to be among the newly introduced bills to the 19th Parliament.

The bill was re-submitted to the new parliament by Alifushi constituency MP Mohamed Rasheed.

In addition, the legal professions bill is also to be forwarded to the parliament floor on Monday by MP for north-Maafannu constituency MP Imthiyaz Fahmy.

These bills are to be re-forwarded as the 18th Parliament had failed to pass it even as it came to an end. If there are any pending bills by the time a tenure comes to an end, the bills are required to be re-submitted, no matter which stage they were on in the previous tenure.

The prisons audit report is also to be debated on in Monday’s sitting. Other bills include the bill President Solih rejected on granting Vice President retirement benefits and the amendment to the Judges Act, seeking to grant privileges to former chief justice Mohamed Rasheed Ibrahim.

Parliament will also be appointing members to their permanent committees.

This comes at a time the families of abducted journalist Ahmed Rilwan and murdered blogger Yameen Rasheed urged the parliament to pass the bill to empower presidential inquiry commissions, of which work has been halted due to lack of legal authority as the government hadn’t passed the bill to give them the required legal authority in the 18th Parliament.