Liberals expect to delay ratification of the election results for the granting of the blocks “enough time” to negotiate
Liberals expect to delay ratification of the election results for the granting of the blocks “enough time” to negotiate
06/10/2014 (00:01 pm)
BAGHDAD / Mohammad Sabah
I expected the Liberal bloc, on Monday, to press some of the political blocs on the Electoral Commission to defer action on the “electoral appeals” in front of it to make way for the completion of negotiations to form the next government.
This suggested to the circles of political asylum to a breach of the blocks first meeting quorum to circumvent the “open meeting” that prevented the Federal Court, and gain more time to negotiate.
In the meantime, an election expert confirmed the absence of regulations, the Office of the State “time limit” to decide appeals made by the winning blocs, revealing the arrival of a large number of them to the Commission.
And provided the political blocs on May 4, dropped its complaints past results as provided by the laws of the Commission, and timed out after 10 days to appeal. And wait for the political parties to ratify the final results for the start of their negotiations Avenue, but it faces a critical timings in which oblige them to hold the first meeting 10 days after the ratification of the results, and to prevent the Federal Court’s “open meeting” which was used to him after the 2010 elections.
Bright says Naji, a spokesman for the Liberal bloc parliamentary, that “after the ratification of the election results is imperative for the presidency call for the convening of the new parliament to choose a major and Parliament of the Republic.”
Added Naji “long” that “this call to be during the period of 15 days may be extended to 15 days and the other only once is extendable thereafter be selected major and his deputies and Parliament of the Republic in the first session chaired by the oldest member.”
Article 54 of the Constitution states that “The President of the Republic, the Council of Representatives to convene by a presidential decree within fifteen days from the date of approval of the results of the general election, and the meeting will be held under the chairmanship of the oldest member, to elect a president and two deputies, may not be extended for more than the previously mentioned period” .
On the steps expected for after the ratification of the results, explains MP for the Liberal bloc said that “scenarios formation of the current government are different from what happened in 2010 to the presence of a decision of the Federal Court which prevents the parliamentary session open to it baseless legal or constitutional,” noting that “the Federal Court shut down the road in front of the political blocs if it wants to resort to the open meeting. ”
He favored bright MP Naji said that “the political blocs and the winner will resort to powerful pressure on the judiciary and the Electoral Commission to postpone the ratification of the election results until the completion of transactions forming the next government and the distribution of positions among themselves.”
Asked whether there was a “time limit” to decide appeals filed about the election results, says Naji, “according to the rules and regulations of the Commission is to decide appeals during the period of ten days, and then approved by the Federal Court.”
In the same context, predicted political circles spoke of the “long” to “turn the political blocs to prejudice quorum call after the first meeting of the presidency to them.”
It adds circles familiar with the scenes of the negotiations, saying that “the masses feel in this parliamentary session by pressing the constitutional timings that do not allow them to conclude deals to form the next government Balnho who aspired to.”
She spoke circles about the “existence of an agreement semi-final to go to the first session, if there is no agreement on the formation of the largest parliamentary bloc, after inviting the presidency and then breach the quorum Parliament to circumvent the ban on open meeting by the Federal Court,” and drew circles that “scenario breach of quorum for the first session will allow all parties to take the time to negotiate the shape of the next government. ”
In this regard, confirms Adil al-Lami, an expert in electoral affairs, said that “the Iraqi constitution includes loose ends did not address the issue of prejudice to the legal quorum for the first meeting.”
Explains Lami, in an interview for the “long”, “The previous regulations of the Commission had to decide appeals during the period of ten days from the submission and then approved by the Federal Court,” adding that “the current regulations do not specify a time limit specified for deciding appeals.”
He noted the former official in the election commission said that “the number of appeals received by the Commission amounted to 680 appeal and therefore the judiciary to follow up on appeals will be delayed in deciding it.”
Lami and stresses that “in case there are many challenges on the supposed head of the Supreme Judicial Council mandate additional judges of the electoral body for the completion of the appeals in the period specified in the regulations.”
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