A/HRC/24/36 concern to the authorities of all three main organs of the State. One interlocutor was of the view that the concept of the National Congress was no longer needed in the country now that the National Assembly and Senate were bodies composed of people’s representatives. The Congress however remains a constitutional requirement. As the King is the guarantor of the Constitution, the monarch should be able to receive people in audience and receive information from people from all walks of life. It should be held every year as mandated by the Constitution. For this, the organic law relating to the National Congress should be enacted without delay; (d) He called for the strengthening of the role of the Human Rights Commissions in Parliament to mainstream human rights as a cross-cutting issue and to ensure the compliance of domestic laws with international human rights standards. (e) He called on all Members of Parliament, including members of opposition parties, to participate fully in the work of Parliament and cooperate, in particular in the work of the Commissions of the National Assembly; (f) Regarding the Constitutional Council, he recommended that it review not only the laws enacted by Parliament but also the internal rules of Parliament in general and the National Assembly in particular, to ascertain whether they were compatible with the Constitution, international human rights standards, and the principles of rule of law, including the principles of natural justice; (g) Among the urgent tasks before Parliament is the review of the new Criminal Code with a view to ensuring its compliance with the permissible limitation to freedom of expression under international human rights law. Parliament should safeguard the right to freedom of expression of its own members and protect their parliamentary immunity. 31. With regard to his recommendations on parliamentary reform, the Special Rapporteur was encouraged by a positive response from the President of the Foreign Relations Commission of the National Assembly and the Secretary-General of the Senate and by a willingness to implement many of them in the next Parliament. He was given information about the efforts being made to implement some of his recommendations and the difficulties involved in implementing others. In regard to nearly all of them, however, he regrets that recent developments demonstrate not an advancement towards better protection of human rights but, on the contrary, a disturbing reversal. The passage of most of the critical laws raised in his report had not progressed. The days following his mission saw the dismissal of 29 opposition Members of Parliament on 5 June 2013, on the eve of the start of the official electoral campaigning period. By this act, those Members of Parliament were denied not only the ability to carry their messages through Parliament, but also their salaries and parliamentary immunity from prosecution, which has created an unhealthy and undemocratic environment for this important imminent milestone in the political development of the nation. 32. With this in mind, the Special Rapporteur once again calls upon the Government to revisit the recommendations on parliamentary reform contained in his report with a view to implementing them without further delay. V. Follow-up to recommendations on elections 33. The subject of the Special Rapporteur’s report to the twenty-first session of the Human Rights Council (A/HRC/21/63) was electoral reform. While the Special Rapporteur’s mission in May 2013 took place at an important time when the country was on the cusp of elections for the National Assembly, the present report was finalized some 10