A bill to install replacements Maliki, Allawi and al-Mutlaq in Parliament
A bill to install replacements Maliki, Allawi and al-Mutlaq in Parliament
24/04/2015 17:40
Long-Presse / Baghdad
In an effort to shut the doors of the appeal made by the 35 deputies unlikely, political blocs submitted an application to modify the replacement of members of the House of Representatives Act gives the President of the blocks right to choose alternative apart from the number of votes or even constituency.
And got the (long) on the draft, very succinct than 3 lines, to modify the replacement of members of the House of Representatives, and bear the signatures of 50 MPs from various political blocs.
According to parliamentary sources said the aim of this amendment is to keep the replacements leaders of the blocks, which took over sensitive political positions and specifically replacements Nuri al-Maliki and Ayad Allawi and Saleh al-Mutlaq, as well as replacements of some ministers Khasin Shahristani Bayan Jabr and others.
The, the draft amendment to the Act, a rare political consensus between the intersecting political blocs in the parliamentary and political orientations.
The decision to eliminate pay to cancel the membership of five MPs, last March, dozens of parliamentarians to challenge the membership of dozens of their colleagues, as they now occur deputies attending the meetings are and alternates at the same time, which could raise the number of members of the House of Representatives to 332 deputies.
And announced that the Federal Supreme Court, last month, that the decisions regarding the replacement of members of the House of Representatives issued in accordance with the law, stressing that be replaced by the same entity and maintain.
She pointed out that “the Law No. (6) omitted how to choose a variant of the entity so I went the Federal Supreme Court in its decisions to implement the provisions of the House of Representatives election law No. (45) for the year 2013 which was released later the Law of the replacement of members of the House of Representatives.”
Under the draft amendment reads as follows:
1. The text of paragraph (1) of Article (2) and replaced by the following:
(Called the head of the electoral list alternative candidate for the member replaced).
2. This law applies, starting from the third session of the Iraqi parliament.
In this context, says a member excluded that “the current replacement law is illegal after refuted by the Federal Court in several decisions,” stressing that “the true criterion for the selection of the bench is the number of votes as stipulated in the constitutional article 38, which states that respect the will of the voters. ”
He adds Haider al-Mawla, in a statement to the “long”, that “there is a political will want to circumvent the Federal Court decisions, and resulted in the submission of the request carries the signatures of 50 deputies to the President of the House of Representatives to amend Article II of the Code of replacement member to allow the head of the bloc or entity to choose alternative Regardless of the votes obtained. ”
He said al-Mawla, a member unlikely for Maysan province, saying “to Amaeijer specific to the process of replacing the House of Representatives as stipulated in the Act No. 6 of 2006, which gives the bloc the right to choose alternative candidate provided that of the cluster and the entity and the province, which opens the way for the presence of a lot of suspicions.”
The Federal Supreme Court decided, on 16 \ 12 \ 2014, non-membership of a bench of Representatives Health, confirmed that the vacant seat awarded to the candidate who received the highest number of votes out of respect for freedom of choice of the voter.
For his part, MP Arshad al-Salihi, head of the Turkmen Front, said that “the political blocs is not serious about amending the law of substitution because some blocks believes it would be disadvantaged in the replacement process, so the amendment needs more time to mature.”
He said Salhi, a member of the legal committee member, “long”, “The amendment to the law has become an important thing in order to avoid any disputes that may arise between the House of Representatives or the political blocs and entities,” but stressed that “it needs more time to reach a agreement. ”
In turn, says Karim Alabtan, between the MP for the National coalition led by Iyad Allawi, that “the replacement force law and respect not open a closed list system.”
He Alabtan “long” by saying “got confusion in the interpretation of the process of replacing the members,” adding that “the signatures collected aim to keep some of the characters in the House of Representatives.”
According to Article (52 / I), the House of Representatives’ decision on the health of its members, within thirty days from the date of filing an objection, a two-thirds majority of its members, and may be challenged in the Board’s decision to the Federal Supreme Court, within thirty days from the date of issuance. ”
In the same vein, a parliamentary source revealed to the beginning of the “long” for “the existence of a political agreement between the parliamentary blocs to replace the members of the law amendment and submit it to the House of Representatives in the coming sessions.”
The source, who preferred anonymity, that “the House of Representatives who are meant to keep them in the House of Representatives and not to keep them away, they are an alternative Vice President Nuri al-Maliki (Hassan Sinead), and alternative Vice President Iyad Allawi (Adnan Aldenbos), and alternative Deputy Prime Minister Saleh al-Mutlaq (Zaid al-Janabi), and alternative Higher Education Minister Hussein al-Shahristani (Mohammed al-Shammari), and alternative and Labor Minister Mohammed Xiaa Sudanese (full Zaidi), and alternative Interior Minister Mohammed Ghaban (denominator bonded), and Alternative Transport Minister Bayan Jabr (Leila Khafaji), and alternative Minister of Health (Iman al-Fadhli). ”
The source describes this proposal as a “clear wrap on incoming voter through the politicization of things and fill vacant seats by holding some of these transactions between the political blocs and among its members who are buying their seats.”
From .. Mohammad Sabah
almadapress.com
