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The Majority Leader in Parliament, Cletus Avoka, has said the House will pass the Presidential Transition Bill into law by the end of March to curtail conflicts related to handing over power from one party to another. He said parliamentarians are obliged to pass laws such as the transition bill to ensure peace and tranquility. His comments followed that of President John Evans Atta Mills, who called on all and sundry, especially state institutions to ensure a peaceful election on the country�s 55th independence anniversary. The Majority Leader told Citi News �we�re in the process of passing the Presidential Transition Bill into law. You�d recall that anytime we have elections, we don�t have a legal framework at how one party can hand over to the winning party.� He added: �So if that law comes into place, it would reduce the incidence of conflict to the barest minimum as far as transitions are concerned. I�m confident that between now and the end of March, before we rise for the biometric registration exercise or for the Easter Holidays we should be able to pass that bill into law.� �We�ve gone very far, there are very few clauses that are left which we are trying to sort out with the technical people. Both majority and minority sides have agreed to a very large extent,� Hon. Avoka added.