MPs fear the powers of the “Federation Council” during its first reading

MPs fear the powers of the “Federation Council” during its first reading

09/23/2014 (00:01 pm)

MPs fear the powers of the Federation Council during its first readingBAGHDAD / Mohammad Sabah

She said the legal committee in the House of Representatives, said that the enactment of the Federation Council, which Parliament began discussing on Monday, will put an end to the principle of the central administration, because it would give representation equal to the provinces, and will do the federal system, including the text of the Constitution, pointing out that the Council of the Union “powers of the hosting and the questioning of government officials and hold them accountable and dismissed “in addition to its role in the scrutiny of legislation and the decisions of the House of Representatives.
The Law Council of the Union one of the main laws that delayed approval of about 8 years, and awaits approval from the House of Representatives and revolves around the controversial and widely. Where it will be according to the contents of the Constitution in 2005, as a “senate” balancing act the House of Representatives, being the representation of each province, four members are elected, regardless of population, in contrast to the level of representation in the House of Representatives, where will exercise oversight role on legislation and implementation.
And got “long” a copy of the bill sent by the Federation Council Fuad Masum, the president of the republic to the Parliament on 14.09.2014, which consists of 24 articles. And found a draft of this law that the Federation Council is a component of the federal legislative authority is organized in a region provinces and governorates not organized province. ”
And Article II provides that represent each province in the Federation Council four elected members, both conservative province Violent or not organized.
The session saw on Monday presented the draft of the Law Council of Union objections by some lawmakers on some of the paragraphs, including Article 13, which states that should the House of Representatives write laws that prescribed by the Federation Council and the right to reject and return or acceptance. ”
And Article 17 stipulates that the House of Representatives and the European Union meet in joint session in the space for meetings of the House of Representatives, chaired the meeting Chairman of the Federation Council or his representative, in one of the following cases: the first at the first meeting of the Federation Council, secondly when the declaration of a state of war or emergency according to the conditions specified in the Constitution and be voted on advertising in both cases by a majority of members of both Houses. Third, when the accountability of the president or his removal from office. Fourth: A member of the Federation Council the same rights enjoyed by a member of the House of Representatives in the discussion and expressed his opinion and vote. ”
On his part, said a member of the Legal Committee Secretary Baker in an interview for the “long” that “the Federation Council will be synonymous with the House of Representatives and regales powers itself,” noting that the work of this Council will be legislatively, any act (filter) to review the legislation in the House of Representatives and audit of all the legal aspects and others. ”
He continued that “the primary task of this council to maintain the balance between the center and regions and provinces in the management of the federal state in general by demanding the rights of the provinces and territories in the event of its existence.”
He said the Kurdistan Alliance MP that “all the laws that prescribed by the House of Representatives will be reviewed by the Council of the Union,” adding that the voting mechanism within the laws of this Council will be agreed upon at the second reading of a draft EU Council. ”
He noted that “in the absence of authentication Federation Council on the laws that Stsalh of the House of Representatives will be returned to these laws to parliament again to make some adjustments.” The main differences on the law, said Deputy Kurdistan that there is a difference “within the Legal Committee, on whether some re-laws of the Federation Council to Parliament, how will you vote majority or half plus one.” For his part, the National Alliance MP Mohammed Naji The bill Federation Council constitutional and legal framework must be enacted in the coming period.
But Naji However, in a statement to the “long”, saying that some of the paragraphs of this law “is to restrict the powers of the looting and the House of Representatives to this objection we noticed a lot of the House of Representatives,” calling for a study to examine the draft of this law enacted by the host. ”
He continued that “the legal committee would revise some of the paragraphs that affect the functions of the House of Representatives in the second reading before the vote on this law.”

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