Deputies: Maliki sent to parliament an emergency law passed suspicious is unlikely

Deputies: Maliki sent to parliament an emergency law passed suspicious is unlikely

03.04.2014 (0:01 pm)

BAGHDAD / Mohammad Sabah

Revealed the Liberal bloc, on Wednesday, the arrival of the law, “national safety” to the House of Representatives, describing it as a “state of emergency” and gives the head of the government broad powers to security and political, in conjunction with the imminent elections.
The dismissed members of the Commission on Security and Defense informing them of the new draft law, confirmed that they Sinaakecouna in Thursday’s meeting, stressing that the House would refuse to pass, because the conditions of the country can not afford to impose a state of emergency.
And himself a senior lawmaker in the Liberal bloc Bahaa al-Araji, the disclosure of the law during a news conference at the parliament building and attended (range). He said al-Araji, the government sent to the National Safety Law to the House of Representatives “for approval as soon as possible,” adding that he “is a declaration of a state of emergency in the country.”
The Cabinet decided, in its meeting held on 18/3 last year, approved a draft law to defend national integrity, and forwarded to the Parliament.
According to a statement by the Secretariat, the law aims to “confront the security conditions, disasters, and epidemics that might be exposed to the country and affecting the safety of the homeland and the citizen and require urgent and exceptional measures of the state.”
In the same context, stresses of quitting, a member of the Commission on Security and Defense parliamentary committee that “this draft law will be discussed at a meeting on Thursday,” in spite of his denial of access to a copy of the law.
And see Zamili, during an interview for the “long”, that “the current situation does not require the imposition of a state of emergency and the application of the National Safety Law under the circumstance political embarrassment Iraq is going through now,” stressing that “the application of this law would load citizen additional burdens,” expected “The House of Representatives refuses to approve the law except in cases of critical and very critical.”
So do not rule out the Hamid al-Mutlaq, a member of the other in the security and defense committee, said that the motive behind sending Safety Act to Parliament is to “create a crisis before the next election.”
He adds Mutlaq, who has denied the “long” version of the briefing on the law, saying that “putting obstacles and create crises in front of the elections reveal the existence of intent to be postponed.” He believed that “the intent of this law is not to impose security, but to inflame the situation in the country.”
Commenting on this, says Judge Wael Abdul Latif, former MP and legal expert, said that “the National Safety Law aims to build a security system shall ensure by the executive branch without having to House interference in the work of this system,” pointing out that “this law came under Article 61. of the Constitution. ”
States (Article 61 / IX) that the House of Representatives regard to:
A – approval of the declaration of war and a state of emergency two-thirds majority, at the joint request of the President of the Republic, and the Prime Minister.
B – declare a state of emergency for a period of thirty days, extendable, and approval each time.
C. The Prime Minister the necessary powers that enable him to manage the affairs of the country during the period of a declaration of war and state of emergency, and regulate these powers law, not inconsistent with the Constitution.
D displays the Prime Minister to the House of Representatives, the actions taken and the results, in the course of a declaration of war and state of emergency, within fifteen days from the date of completion.
As denies Abdel-Latif, told the “long” yesterday, briefed on the draft law of safety, it is expected that “the law is more detailed in the types of emergency contained in the Constitution.”
He believed the legal expert said that “application of the law would impose restrictions on the media and the press and the political blocs and the freedom of citizens”, stressing that “the law is supposed to achieve national safety and security of the citizen,” excluded “for the approval of the House of Representatives passed on.”
He also points out that the former deputy “emergency law empowers the prime minister to take security measures and wide,” noting that “the law was in effect in 2004, at a time when the government of Iyad Allawi, and after the adoption of the Constitution in 2005, has been working to disable it.”
Under the first article of the law to defend the national integrity for the year 2004 as follows: “declare a state of emergency order includes a case statement which declared a state of emergency because of it, that does not extend the state of emergency more than sixty (60) days and may be extended a state of emergency periodically every thirty days. ”
With Article 6 of the law on “restrictions on public shops and business clubs and associations, trade unions, companies, institutions and departments, so as to determine the dates of opening and closing and monitoring their work and put under sequestration after obtaining a judicial decision, and resolved or pause if it is proved they relate to offenses such as murder and thieving, rape, kidnapping, sabotage or explosion or burning or destruction of public and private funds and possession of military weapons and materiel, manufacture, transfer or smuggled or traded. ”

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