Kurdistan blocs: The election law was passed by force and without consensus
Kurdistan blocs: The election law was passed by force and without consensus
2019/12/24 18:32
[Baghdad-Where]
Kurdistan Parliamentary blocs expressed their opposition on Tuesday to proceeding to vote on the draft legislative elections law.
The head of the National Union bloc, Joan Ihsan, said that in a press conference of the Kurdish blocs, what happened in today’s session of passing the law and extracting it by force without consensus, study and listening to the street demanding reform and legislating a law that does not reproduce the regime itself and does not allow the domination of the dominant parties and does not distort the political system, and allows early elections to take place. .
She added that “the insistence of legislators to override the original text that was included to develop the districts to be at the level of districts is a clear will not to hold early elections because of the technical complications and problems related to the identity of dozens of districts at the level of Iraq, as well as insisting on the adoption of counting and electronic counting and dependence on the card Electronic without biometric is a clear indication of manipulation and forgery to the will of the voters, “indicating that” the accreditation of the highest number of votes is to reap the dominant parties for the seats in the assembly, burn the vast majority of the votes of the voters, return Iraq to tribal and territorial affiliations, and cut the path in front of the palm And independent bodies. ”
She emphasized that “ignoring the will of the Kurds and the popular street demanding reform and the opinions of the experts and the specialized elite is a real push for this street towards more rupture and tyranny of opinion to bring out impeccable laws. Also, the parties that took care of this distortion carried the origin of the law, responsibility and we demand them to correct these mistakes before voting on the overall Law”.
And she continued, “The Kurds, with the approval of an electoral law that facilitates elections, will achieve true representation of the electorate and prevent the tyranny of the parties that want their candidates to win in all constituencies through the highest winners.”
For his part, MP from the Kurdistan Islamic Union bloc Muthanna Amin said during the conference that the draft law establishes a system of tyranny and imposing wills, and an attempt not to proceed with the holding of early elections, adding that this law also establishes regionalism, majority control and maintaining financial and administrative corruption in the country.
alliraqnews.com