MINSK, 4 March (BelTA) – It will be necessary to rebuild anew the hierarchy of laws and regulations in Belarus. Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko made the statement during the solemn ceremony held on 4 March to sign the decision of the national constitutional referendum, BelTA has learned.
Aleksandr Lukashenko said: “The new Constitution no longer allows ordinances passed by the president. It stipulates that presidential decrees and executive orders must comply with laws. Time has come. The previous regulatory acts signed by the president will definitely stay in effect. But they will have to be revised. Some will be left as they are while provisions from other ones will have to be incorporated into laws. Some regulatory acts will have to be scrapped. The Constitution allocates two years for this work.”
The head of state said: “I’ve already said that our efforts to reform the legislation will not stop at the adoption of the Constitution. Contrariwise, a period of the hardest and most scrupulous creative work is about to begin. We have to bring all the laws, bylaws, and regulations into compliance with the Constitution over the course of two years. We will have to rebuild the legislation hierarchy anew. We will have to seamlessly incorporate decisions of the Belarusian People’s Congress into it.”