Kurdish Bloc: Parliament’s vote to amend the Federal Court Law is a “big mistake”
Kurdish Bloc: Parliament’s vote to amend the Federal Court Law is a “big mistake”
3/22/2021 10:45
[Baghdad-Where]
The Kurdish Parliamentary Bloc confirmed, on Monday, that the vote to amend the Federal Court Law was a “big mistake,” warning against repeating the scenario of selecting judges for the Electoral Commission in the court.
The two representatives of the bloc, Yusef Muhammad and Bahar Mahmoud, said in a joint statement, “The vote to amend Law No. 30 of 2005 of the Supreme Federal Court by a simple majority was a great mistake and a clear violation of the constitution, specifically Clause Two of Article 92 of it, which stipulates that the vote on a law The Federal Supreme Court must have a two-thirds majority of the members of the House of Representatives. ”
And he added, “From the operative part of this article, we understand that any legislation pertaining to the Federal Supreme Court must be by a two-thirds majority of its members.”
The two deputies pointed out that “the mass change demanded more than once that the vote be by a two-thirds majority, but its opinion was not taken, and this is what made it refuse to participate in the voting session.”
They expressed their wish that this grave error be corrected, because “what is built on falsehood is false,” as they describe them.
And they stressed that “this error will cause many problems in the future, especially when approving the results of the upcoming elections, which will be under suspicion and disagreement by the political blocs.”
The two representatives of the Change Bloc believed that “the amendment to the Federal Court law that Parliament voted last week is (the lesser evil) compared to the enactment of a new law for the court that is more problematic.”
At the same time, he warned against “the repetition of the scenario of selecting judges who are members of the Board of Commissioners of the Election Commission, which was marred by a lot of defects, problems and ambiguities in the process of selecting members of the Federal Court. And the scientific level, taking into account the representation of components being a constitutional issue and avoiding quotas
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