NEWS JUNE, 2013
PARLIAMENTARY FORUM FOR DEMOCRACY
Inside This Issue
1 TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE BY MATYAS EÖRSI
6 WINDS OF CHANGE AND JUSTICE IN TUNISIA, A COUNTRY ALSO IN TRANSITION BY HANNEKE GEDERBLOM- LANKHOUT
11 TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE: LITHUANIA „ S EXPERIENCEBY DOMAS PETRULIS
14 JUSTICE DURING TRANSITIONAL PERIOD. LITHUANIA „ S EXPERIENCE BY AGNĖ BILOTAITĖ
18 Upcoming Events
The Parliamentary Forum for Democracy was invited for the second time to Tunisia on 14 June to share parliamentary experiences, both theoretical and practical about transitional justice with encouraged, enthusiastic young participants of the Tunisian School of Politics.
The Parliamentary Forum delegation consisted of current
and former parliamentarians from European Union countries- Members of the Lithuanian Parliament Agnė Bilotaitė and Domas Petrulis, a former member of the Netherlands Senate and the Board Member of the Justice Sector Development Institute Hanneke Gelderblom-Lankhout, and PFD Secretary General and a
former member of the Hungarian Parliament Matyas Eörsi.
TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE
BY MATYAS EÖRSI
SECRETARY GENERAL PARLIAMENTARY FORUM FOR DEMOCRACY FORMER MP IN HUNGARY
I used to have one experience with the Parliamentary Forum for Democracy before I became its Secretary General and it was in the last year and exactly here in Tunis. It was a conference organized for Libyan lawyers, and the subject of the conference was rule of law. The major message of these very fine, open, clever and committed Libyan lawyers was that they want rule of law in Libya. On different matters, however, they always said: The revolution has not yet come to an end. This sounds fair enough: they very obviously meant that the public life of Libya is still occupied or influenced by Quaddafi-loyalist, and until Libya cannot get rid of these Quaddafi-loyalists, the revolution cannot be considered finished. As I used to live in Libya for a couple of moths during the revolution and the fight for freedom, I know that these views were widely shared all over Libya. As I have never lived in Tunis, I do not have such a knowledge about these feelings in Tunis, but having gone tho ugh a political change from dictatorship towards democracy in my own country, Hungary, and having seen a number of political transitions in Central-Eastern Europe and