Parliament resumes its actions and al-Jabouri refers the charges of deputies to the judiciary

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7 hours ago, yota691 said:

Verbal quarrels and hit the water bottles in the parliament session

Political

 Since 2017-08-21 at 13:21 (Baghdad time)

 Baghdad Mawazine News

A parliamentary source said on Monday that there was a fight between the deputies on the one hand and President Salim al-Jubouri on the other.

The source told Mawazine News that "verbal exchanges occurred between MP Faiq Sheikh Ali and Parliament Speaker Salim al-Jubouri during the presentation of the report of the Committee of Experts in charge of selecting the Electoral Commission."

The source added that "the quarrels developed between a large number of deputies and the exchange of water cannons."

He pointed out that "the force charged with protecting the parliament entered the Chamber of the Council because of the fight of deputies."

I have two questions... #1 were the water bottles plastic or glass? #2 Do they have to walk through metal detectors before entering?

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fighting for the cash cow to not be taken away but disappointed no canes were used .....  thanks yota

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What a mess

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6 hours ago, 3n1 said:

fighting for the cash cow to not be taken away but disappointed no canes were used .....  thanks yota

 

Water bottles, and one guy was hit with a cell phone. The kind of stuff my wife deals with teaching elementary school kids. Pathetic fools.

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Parliament votes to amend the amnesty law and end the reading of the law of information crimes [expanded]

Date of release: 2017/8/21 16:14 • 152 times read

[Ayn-Baghdad] 
The House of Representatives voted in its regular session 15 held under the chairmanship of Dr. Salim al-Jubouri, President of the Council and in the presence of 170 deputies today on the first amendment to the law of amnesty and ended the reading of the draft law on informatics crimes.

According to a statement of the media department of the parliament received the agency of all Iraq [where] a copy of it today, "At the outset of the meeting Jubouri on behalf of the Council thanked the committees of health and legal, tourism and relics and work and social affairs and culture and information and finance and the displaced and displaced to attend the meetings of the committees, The other parliamentary attendance at the meetings, stressing that the Presidency will report on the activity of parliamentary committees after their arrival from the parliamentary service. 
The Council voted to reject the presentation of the report of the Committee of Experts on the selection of members of the Electoral Commission for elections and its work during the last period. 
For his part, MP Mohammed Halbusi, an apology from the Presidency of the Council and the deputies on the actions taken from it during the session.
The Council voted on the first amendment bill to the general amnesty law No. 27 of 2016, submitted by the Legal Committee, which came to the seriousness of the terrorist crimes and crimes of kidnapping people in society, especially after 10/6/2014, in order not to allow the perpetrators to escape impunity and not to encourage And for the purpose of increasing the amount of the fine on the replaced sentence or measure.
On the completion of the vote on the draft law on the provincial and district elections and submitted by the legal committees, regions and governorates are not organized in the region, President Jubouri announced that the representatives of the components of the province of Kirkuk in an approximate form of agreement on Articles 37 and 52 of the draft law and some paragraphs that need to be rephrased and study , Noting that the atmosphere of the meetings were characterized by the positive and flexible from all parties representatives of the components of the province of Kirkuk, where the vote on the draft law of provincial elections will be postponed to the next meeting at the request of the deputies of the province. 
The Presidency decided to delay the completion of the vote on the draft amendment to the Third Law of Governorates not organized in the region No. 21 of 2008 and submitted by the legal committees and regions and governorates not organized in the region.
The Council concluded the vote in principle to proceed with the legislation proposed Bill Babylon, the cultural capital of Iraq and submitted by the committees of culture, information, tourism and archeology. 
Jubouri assigned the tribal committee to proceed with the follow-up procedures of the province of Basra and the resolution of tribal conflicts in accordance with the powers granted to the Committee with the help of members of the House of Representatives from the province of Basra. 
President al-Jubouri postponed the vote on each of the candidates for membership of the Committee of Tribal Disputes and candidates for membership of the investigative committee regarding the kidnapped and to consider the appeals filed on the validity of the membership of some of the deputies.
On the guidance of the President of the Council to investigate the statements of MP Hoda Sajjad on the withdrawal of signatures of deputies from the interrogation, MP Talal Al-Zobaie, Chairman of the Integrity Committee that the joint committee formed by the Integrity and Legal Commissions regarding the statements of MP Hoda Sajjad held a meeting hosted by MP Hoda Sajjad and MP Alia, The Joint Commission requested the extension of its work to scrutinize the names of deputies whose signatures have been withdrawn. 
And Jubouri extended the work of the Joint Committee until tomorrow for the purpose and in case there is a file that needs judicial action will be transferred to the judiciary and the House of Representatives will take its actions against the charges against MP Hoda Sajjad.
On the questioning of the House of Representatives for the Minister of Communications at the request of MP Hoda Sajjad, President Jubouri noted that the questioning of the minister is valid on the decision of the Special Commission to consider the interrogations, which indicated that MP Hoda Sajjad presented on 20 August a list of signatures of a number of ladies and gentlemen The deputies to strengthen the signatures of deputies on the questioning of the Minister of Communications in a way that makes the quorum is achieved until the day of questioning after the imbalance of the quorum before that after the withdrawal of 15 deputies for their signatures out of 33 deputies, pointing to the Committee problem and documented the existence of 16 written requests to withdraw signatures, including 15 deputies already received Their names are in the list of signatures. 
At the start of the questioning of the Minister of Communications, Jubouri thanked the Minister of Communications for attending the session of the House of Representatives as a sign of respect for the democratic system and MP Hoda Sajjad for its role in strengthening the oversight role.
For his part, Hassan al-Rashed, filed a lawsuit to the Federal Court on the withdrawal of signatures of some MPs from the list of request for questioning in conjunction with the existence of coordinated media campaigns to attack the ministry, pointing to his presence before the Parliamentary Services Committee to view all details related to the work of the Ministry of Communications, calling for another date For the interrogation process. 
For her part, MP Huda Sajjad, who presented the request for questioning on her adherence to strengthen the oversight role of the House of Representatives and the process of democracy and proceed with the process of questioning. 
In turn, the First Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives Sheikh Humam Hamoudi pointed out that the atmosphere surrounding the questioning of the Minister of Communications is similar to the atmosphere during the postponement of the questioning of the Minister of Agriculture before the House of Representatives adopted its decision to prevent the withdrawal of signatures on requests for questioning, pointing to the importance of reassuring the Minister of Communications on the mechanisms of interrogation, A new appointment, like the Minister of Agriculture.
The President of the Council held a meeting tomorrow for the Presidency to consider the recommendations made by the committees on interrogations, provided that a new date is set for the questioning of the Minister of Communications. The 
Council concluded reading a report and discussing the draft law on informatics crimes submitted by security, defense, higher education, scientific and legal research, Human Services and Construction. 
In the interventions of MPs, MP Pirwan Khailani emphasized the importance of benefiting from the expertise, techniques and experiences of developed countries in the fight against cybercrime. 
MP Hoshyar Abdullah noted his reservations about the legislation of the law in the current period as it paves the way for the establishment of an intelligence state. 
MP Raad Almas stressed the importance of speeding up the bill to vote for its importance. 
MP Ammar Tohme suggested that the bill should include a bill to hold accountable those who publish material contrary to public morality and religious symbols.
For his part, said Turhan Mufti representative of the government to the need to legislate the law with the possibility of forming a joint committee of the House of Representatives and ministers to study the draft law and prepare a mature version in order to accelerate the approval. 
In its response to the interventions, the Committee stressed that consideration should be given to the proposals made and the experiences of the developed countries in this regard to prepare the draft law and enact it as soon as possible. 

Then the Presidency of the Council decided to resume the session on Monday 23/8/2017.

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Parliament to resume its chairmanship Jubouri

Political

 Since 2017-08-22 at 11:45 (Baghdad time)

Baghdad Mawazine News

On Tuesday, parliament resumed the proceedings of the 16th session under the chairmanship of Jubouri.

A parliamentary source told / Mawazin News / that "Jubouri resumed the session of Parliament No." 16 "which was lifted on Monday because of the brawl of deputies on the file selection of candidates for the Electoral Commission."

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Parliament resumes its actions and al-Jabouri refers the charges of deputies to the judiciary

Release Date: 2017/8/22 11:56 • 80 times read

[Ayna-Baghdad] 
The House of Representatives resumed the work of its meeting held yesterday.
 

The speaker of parliament, Salim al-Jubouri, "to refer the accusations raised by some deputies against the Council to the judiciary." 
Al-Jabouri also directed the Integrity and Legal Committees to expedite the presentation of the results of investigations on the subject

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Al-Jubouri directs the charges against parliament to the judiciary

Political

 Since 2017-08-22 at 11:50 (Baghdad time)

Baghdad Mawazine News

Parliament Speaker Salim al-Jubouri on Tuesday referred the charges brought by some deputies to the judiciary.

A parliamentary source told Mawazine News that "Jubouri directed to refer all the accusations made by some MPs against the parliament to the judiciary."

The source added that "Jubouri also directed the Committees of Integrity and Legal Representatives to accelerate the submission of the results of investigations on the subject of interrogations and withdraw signatures for money."

It is noteworthy that a number of deputies accused the parliament of corruption and quotas in the file of the Electoral Commission and the cancellation of interrogations and withdraw signatures of requests for questioning for money. Ended 29

 

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Parliament concludes reading of agreement with Korea and amending the law of judicial supervision

Release date: 2017/8/22 12:37 • 23 times read

[Ayn-Baghdad] 
The House of Representatives has finished reading the report and discussion of the draft law on ratification of the agreement to accelerate cooperation in the economic and energy affairs between the Government of the Republic of Iraq and the Government of the Republic of Korea.

The Council also completed the reading of a report and discussion of the proposed amendment to the First Law of the Judicial Supervisory Authority No. 29 of 2016.

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Parliament raises its meeting after the Eid al - Adha

Political

 Since 2017-08-22 at 13:20 (Baghdad time)

 

Baghdad Mawazine News

The House of Representatives decided to raise its meeting on Tuesday, after the Eid al-Adha.

A parliamentary source told Mawazine News that "the parliament has finished reading the recommendations of the committee of civil society institutions after hosting the governor of Baghdad and members of the committee and discussed the first amendment to the proposed law of the first amendment to the law of the body of judicial supervision."

"The parliament decided to adjourn the meeting until after Eid al-Adha," he said

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Quotas dominate the selection of candidates of the Council of the Commission

Baghdad / Mohammed Sabah 
 

المدى The range exclusively publishes the final list of the 11 competitors

The Presidency of the House of Representatives postponed, during yesterday's session, the names of the nine candidates of the Electoral Commission Council to another notice. The decision came against the backdrop of verbal quarrels between Speaker of Parliament Salim al-Jubouri and some MPs. 
Parliamentary parties confirmed that the committee of experts reached the selection of 11 candidates behind them political blocs in force, where the National Alliance got 5 seats, including one seat of the Liberal bloc, while the Supreme Council won one of the seats after resolving the dispute with the stream of wisdom. 


Both Arabs and Kurds won two seats each. Two reserve seats were added to the Christian and Turkmen components. 
This choice raised the objection of a number of deputies who announced the collection of 70 signatures to demand the dissolution of the Committee of Experts and the selection of new ones.
According to MP Zaher Abadi, a member of the Committee of Experts in a statement (range) yesterday, "there are trends in the large blocs to share the Council of the Electoral Commission on the basis of sectarian and partisan." He revealed that "the Committee of Experts reached the selection of nine members of the next Board of Commissioners." 
At the end of last July, Al-Madaa revealed that the blocs, through their representatives in the parliamentary committee, had leaked interview questions to their candidates in order to ensure that they received the highest ratings. 
MP Mohamed Nuri al-Abed Rabbo withdrew from the committee's membership in protest against what he called the quotas and party blocs in choosing the names of candidates for the new electoral commission. 
"The parliamentary committee of experts selected 37 candidates out of 120 to compete for nine seats after conducting the interview, which included asking oral questions," Abbadi said, confirming that the committee had finished evaluating each of the 37 candidates.
The deputy for the National Alliance for "differences within the Committee of Experts revolves around how to choose the nine commissioners," noting that "there are those who want to pay 37 candidates to the House of Representatives to choose nine of them away from quotas, and there are those who want to maintain the balance between the components, Wants to be the selection process based on the highest scores. " 
"The members of the committee of experts are not aware of the nine names chosen by the Chairman of the Committee of Experts Amer Khuzaie and his deputy Salah al-Jubouri and the Rapporteur Zana Said on Sunday evening." 
For his part, confirms the decision of the Committee of Experts MP Zana Said that "the large blocs are influential in the process of selection for all independent bodies," noting that "the parties took control of all seats in the new Electoral Commission."
"The Kurdish MP, in a statement to (the extent)," The Committee of Experts voted on Sunday afternoon on 37 candidates and then the Chairman of the Committee and his deputy and the Rapporteur held an evening meeting to sort these candidates, and we are sure they are from the parliamentary blocs and parties, "noting that" Five seats, two seats for both Sunni Arabs and 
Kurds. " 
And revealed (range), in July last, information quoting a source in the Committee of Experts talking about the agreement blocks on the distribution of members of the new Commission on the basis of quotas for all components. According to the source, the National Alliance got 5 seats, and two seats for each of the Sunni Arabs and Kurds. 
The decision of the Committee of Experts that "the nine names currently exist in the Presidency of the House of Representatives, and the dispute around them delayed the vote on them to the next meetings." He revealed "differences between the Sunni blocs on their quotas, as well as the Kurdish blocs did not agree on candidates for the disabled."
Al-Mada won the names of candidates for the new council of the Commission, namely: Riyad Ghazi, Mu'tamad Na'ama and Hassan Salman as candidates for the State of Law Coalition, Ahmed Jabbar as a candidate for the Supreme Council and Karim al-Tamimi as a candidate for the Liberal bloc. 
The list included Rizgar Hamma as a candidate for the PUK bloc, Bayar Tahir Doski as a candidate for the Kurdistan Democratic Bloc, Ghassan Farhan and Maan Abdul-Marshain from the Union of Iraqi Forces. 
The list also includes a candidate for the Christian component (Aram) and (Matin Jadraji) as a candidate for the Turkmen component, if the expansion of the Board of Commissioners is approved for 11 members. 
The deputies, who refused to reveal their identity, confirmed the validity of these names chosen. 
In addition, the deputies objecting to the decisions of the Committee of Experts held a press conference inside the parliament building, attended by (range).
MP Mohammed al-Abed Rabbo, at the press conference, described the attempt by the Presidency of Parliament to pass the names of the candidates to the Electoral Commission with dodging. "There is a process of favoritism for candidates supported by blocs and political parties," he said. 
"The process of sorting the forms of contestants was conducted by deputies from outside the Committee of Experts," he said, referring to "attempts to withdraw some forms in order to raise the grades of some candidates." 
In turn, the MP for the National Coalition, Hassan Shuwaird, at the same conference, the withdrawal of 10 members of the Committee of Experts in protest against the list of names of candidates, calling for the assignment of judges to run the Electoral Commission next. 
The opposition deputies gathered signatures of 70 deputies to demand the dissolution of the Committee of Experts and the election of a new committee away from the political and party quotas.
According to the deputy spoke to the (range), and declined to be identified, "the large blocs intensified their talks on Sunday evening and agreed to provide 11 names of the new Electoral Commission represent large blocs influential," pointing out that "the parliamentary blocs will wait to amend the law of the Commission in order to submit candidates Turkmen and Christian components ". 
The House of Representatives completed the first reading to amend the law of the Electoral Commission, last July, in order to expand the representation of components in accordance with Article 125 of the Iraqi Constitution. 
The MP that "the Shiite blocs resolved differences between the stream of wisdom and the Supreme Council, who were competing strongly on one of the seats and decided to go to the second party."

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The House of Representatives amends the amnesty and postpones provincial elections

 Baghdad / Range 
 

The House voted during yesterday's session to amend the amnesty law. The legislative and executive branches have reached a consensus formula to end the controversy over controversial clauses of the law. According to members of the legal committee who spoke to al-Mada last week, the agreement provides for the exception of abductions of pardons, as well as the inclusion of some beneficiaries of the previous amnesties. As well as cover the crimes of terrorism that occurred before the fall of Mosul, and replace the sentences of forgery certificates with financial allowances. The amendments include some governors involved in financial and administrative corruption issues. 
The House of Representatives postponed the vote on the law of provincial and district elections, to Tuesday's session. The President of the Parliament reached the representatives of the province of Kirkuk to the wording of an agreement on Articles 37 and 52 of the draft law.
This came during the regular session of the 15th House of Representatives, which was held on Monday, headed by Salim al-Jubouri and the presence of 170 deputies, according to a statement received by (range). 
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, during the session, "the representatives of the components of the province of Kirkuk came roughly to the wording of an agreement on Articles 37 and 52 of the draft law and some paragraphs that need to be redrafted and studied." Jubouri added that "the atmosphere of meetings was characterized by the positive and flexible from all parties representatives of the components of the province of Kirkuk, where the vote on the draft provincial elections law will be postponed to the next meeting at the request of deputies of the province." But the Turkmen MP Hassan Turan announced yesterday, postponed the resolution of the paragraph on the province of Kirkuk until after Eid al-Adha. 
Turan said in a statement to his office, "the resolution of the paragraph on the province of Kirkuk has been postponed until after Eid al-Adha." "There is a tendency to resolve controversial points."
The deputies of the components of Kirkuk have confirmed a preliminary agreement after a meeting in the Office of the Speaker of Parliament. 
Under the agreement, the Kirkuk elections will be held in conjunction with the other governorates after a series of amendments to Article 37 of the draft local elections law. 
The agreement included an audit of the voters register by the Electoral Commission, which will use data from the ministries of interior, planning and trade, provided that the work is conducted under the supervision of a parliamentary committee "without a president and take decisions by consensus." The House of Representatives postponed the vote on the Law of the Third Amendment to the Law of Governorates not organized in the territory. The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Salim al-Jubouri, approved a request by a joint committee for the extension of its work on the investigation of the withdrawal of signatures of some MPs from interrogations, and stressed the need to take judicial action in case these facts are proved.
Al-Jubouri ordered the tribal committee to proceed with the follow-up procedures to the situation in the province of Basra and the resolution of tribal conflicts in accordance with the powers granted to the committee, with the assistance of members of the House of Representatives from the province of Basra. 
The parliament ended the reading of a report and discussion of the draft law on cyber crimes submitted by the security and defense committees, higher education, scientific and legal research, culture, information, human rights, services and reconstruction. The House of Representatives concluded the vote in principle to proceed with the legislation proposed Bill Babylon, the cultural capital of Iraq submitted by the committees of culture, information, tourism and archeology.
On the committee formed to investigate the withdrawal of deputies from their signatures of the interrogation records, the Chairman of the Integrity Committee, Talal Al-Zobaie, said during the meeting that "the joint committee formed by the Integrity and Legal Commissions regarding the statements of MP Hoda Sajjad held a meeting hosted by MP Hoda Sajjad and MP Alia Nassif, That "the Joint Commission requested the extension of its work to check on the names of the deputies whose signatures have been withdrawn." The Speaker of the House of Representatives, after that, to "extend the work of the Joint Committee until tomorrow," stressing that "in the case of a file needs to be a judicial process will be transferred to the judiciary and the House of Representatives will take its actions against him charges against MP Hoda Sajjad."

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Charges for the presidency of parliament to rid ministers of the trap of interrogations

 Baghdad / Wael Ne'ma 
 

Spent several days sitting on the door of the office of Speaker of the House of Representatives Salim al-Jubouri, to get an appointment to question the Minister of Agriculture, which was later canceled. Late last year, MP Zeinab al-Taee submitted a request to parliament speaker to question Minister Falah Zaidan, but the date was postponed several times, before deputies withdrew on Thursday, their signatures on the request. 

Charges by another deputy of some lawmakers to withdraw their signatures from interrogations in exchange for kickbacks prompted parliament to take a decision banning the withdrawal of the signature and set up a commission to investigate allegations of bribes. 
Six women in parliament are leading the questioning campaign, which began last year with the dismissal of Defense Minister Khalid al-Obeidi and Finance Hoshyar Zebari. 
The Presidency of Parliament subsequently formed a committee to study interrogations. The National Alliance decided to establish an internal committee to question the official before submitting it to parliament.
MP Zeinab al-Taie, who asked to question the minister of agriculture, believes that the presidency in parliament conducted the file of interrogations very badly. 
"I waited 9 months until the speaker of parliament decided to ask the questioning last Thursday," al-Taie said in an extended interview with Al-Mada. 
A member of the Liberal bloc, since the beginning of last November, a request to question Minister Falah Zaidan, accompanied by signatures of 42 deputies. The Constitution provides that the request for questioning must be with the consent of 25 deputies (art. 61 / VII). 
Al-Taie confirmed that the interrogation was postponed four times without clear reasons. "I was standing during those months several hours in the door of the speaker of the parliament, I ask him to set a deadline, while they were asking me to bring other securities and papers." 
Deputies often accuse parliament of deliberately delaying the questioning of some officials pending the end of the crisis that has led to its accountability, as happened with the ministers of education and electricity.

Sheikh Minister! 
MP Zaynab al-Taei described the interrogations as "Bab Rizk" to some MPs, who exploit him to get some privileges and perhaps money and land, as happened with the case of the Minister of Agriculture. 
The member of the Liberal bloc, "announced the Speaker of the parliament in the session last Thursday, scheduled to question Falah Zaidan withdrawal signatures of 20 deputies out of 42, which means violation of the quorum sign." 
But al-Taei confirmed that "26 signatures were given to assign the previous signatures 3 days before the interrogation, but the presidency of the parliament neglected." According to the decision of the Federal Court, "8 of the withdrawees did not submit a written request, but they removed their names from the Registry of the signatories." 
"Some MPs refused to sign the minister's questioning because of a relationship or interest," he said.
During the 9-month period, a member of the Liberal Bloc believes that "the minister took an opportunity to move on the cancellation of his interrogation, such as sending his cousin, MP Najm al-Lahibi, to submit an interrogation of an old date, but then withdrew it because the parliament had previously interrogated him in the records." 
Al-Taie continued, "the deputy asked me to respect the position of the minister as a tribal leader, and it is not permissible to enter the parliament for questioning." "Al-Halaibi told me that he is a family owner and took the minister's place in parliament, and that questioning him might threaten the removal of his post," she said. 
A former deputy, who refused to be named, also tried to make deals with MPs in the parliament cafeteria before the eyes of all parliamentarians. 
Al-Taie confirmed that during that period, some of the Shiite deputies who signed the interrogation changed their convictions to the minister of the Alliance of Forces. The deputy notes that "
"During this period (9 months) a change occurred in the ownership of agricultural land and contracts of equipment and fertilizers," but denied that the possession of physical evidence of the deputies to withdraw from the questioning of the Minister of Agriculture, on some of those deals. 

Agriculture supports banks 
and MP continues her speech , saying that " the actions of the Minister of Agriculture suspicious, such that each ministry contracts signed in Jordan or Lebanon, or it opens a current account for contracts for equipment in the eligibility of banks under the pretext of supporting those banks."
"The minister imported hundreds of thousands of tons of cement, before the start of the cement plant in Basra, where at that time will not allow Iraq to import after that. "The minister rented several stores in the provinces to keep cement, including 11 stores in Kirkuk, 7 in Karbala and other provinces, while 86 guards were employed on those stores with a daily wage." "I do not know why the minister acted like that," said MP Zeinab al-Tai, "I wish I could know the answer in parliament, but now I will take the documents and hand them over to the Integrity Commission." 
In contrast, the MP for the National Alliance Ahmed al-Badri that "the decision of the last parliament to prevent the interviewer from withdrawing his signature will organize the work of interrogations." 
Al-Badri said in a statement to Al-Mada yesterday that "delaying the presentation of interrogations bears responsibility for the presidency of the parliament, while the minister is sometimes busy and can not attend."
But MP Zeinab al-Tai said that "the delay deliberately to block some of the interrogations," considering that "the decision of the last parliament came after ensuring that the Minister of Commerce, Agency and Agriculture is not questioned." 

Women's control 
Most of the requests for questioning are addressed by women in parliament, with 6 out of 8 interviews since last year. 
And MP Anam al-Shomusi, one of the female parliamentarians seeking to question the head of the Martyrs' Association was successful Abdul Amir. 
"Women are more effective than men in parliament, so we are leading interrogations," Shamousi said in a statement. 
The deputies were high Nassif, Hanan al-Fatlawi, and Majida al-Tamimi, overthrew the Minister of Defense and Chairman of the Information Authority. In turn, deputy Huda Sajjad recently accused some of the deputies to take money in exchange for the withdrawal of signatures on the request to question the Minister of Communications Hassan Al-Rashed.
"I do not think the MP withdraws his signature because of the money, but there are bargains between the blocs to give up the interrogation in exchange for another interrogation," said Shamoussi, who filed an interrogation request six months ago and delayed questioning because of her health.

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The House of Representatives completes the reading of two laws and transmits the investigation file by withdrawing the signatures to the judiciary

 August 22, 2017 12 Views

The House of Representatives ended its 16th ordinary session held under the chairmanship of Dr. Salim Jubouri, President of the Council and in the presence of 170 deputies on Tuesday 22/8/2017 read and discuss two laws. 
At the beginning of the session, the Speaker of the House of Representatives asked the Joint Parliamentary Inquiry Committee to present the results of the investigation regarding the statements of MP Hoda Sajjad on the withdrawal of signatures of some deputies from the list of questioning ministers. 
MP Mohsen al-Saadoun, chairman of the Legal Committee, said that his committee formed a mini committee with the participation of the Integrity Committee in the ongoing investigations in order to present a final report today on the statements of MP Hoda Sajjad. 
For his part, President Jubouri called on the joint investigative committee to refer the statements of MP Hoda Sajjad on the withdrawal of the deputies to the signatures of the interrogation in all its details to the judiciary, declaring the House of Representatives to refer any accusation, news or aggression that would prove a felony and every complaint submitted with evidence to the judiciary.
The Council concluded reading a report and discussion of the draft law of ratification of the agreement to accelerate cooperation in the economic and energy affairs between the Government of the Republic of Iraq and the Government of the Republic of Korea and submitted by the committees of foreign relations, oil, energy, economy and investment. 
In the interventions of ladies and gentlemen, MP Jawad al-Bolani proposed forming a parliamentary committee and involving the government representative in order to hold a meeting of the concerned ministers with the committees of foreign relations and economy to add paragraphs that would develop relations between Iraq and Korea. 
MP Riad Gharib called for a quick vote on the agreement to Iraq's urgent need for development in various fields. 
MP Ammar Tohme pointed to the importance of allowing the government to assess the benefit or lack of Korean companies. 
MP Gidaa Kambash said the agreement places more obligations on Iraq than the rights it will get from Korea.
In its response to the interventions, the competent committee confirmed that a request had been submitted to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in order to obtain a copy in Arabic, noting that there is no impediment to hosting a number of representatives of the ministries for the purpose of inquiring about the agreement. 
The Council completed a report and discussion of the proposed amendment to the First Law of the Judicial Supervisory Authority No. 29 of 2016, submitted by the Legal Committee. 
In the interventions of ladies and gentlemen, MP Jabbar al-Abbadi pointed out that the proposed law according to the decision of the Federal Court should not touch the financial aspects or related to judicial institutions, which increases the chances of appeal. 
MP Zana Said pointed out that the proposed law comes to address the gaps in the judicial supervision and the role of the House of Representatives, which does not violate the independence of the judiciary.
MP Ali al-Shukri called for taking the judiciary's opinion on a bill proposed by the Judicial Supervisory Authority so that it would not be overturned. 
MP Hanan al-Fatlawi expressed surprise at the legislation of the law of an independent authority without taking their opinion, urging the importance of benefiting from the substantive observations of the judicial authorities to prepare the proposed law. 
The committee confirmed its intention to consult with the Judicial Supervisory Authority, pointing out that the committee will not proceed with the legislation of the law before meeting with the judicial supervision body to know its observations on the proposed law. 
The Committee on Agriculture, Water and Marshlands subsequently submitted a report on the quarterly activity for the past period.
The committee reviewed the achievements of the committee during the last period, referring to the submission of draft laws to vote and to read the first and second as well as the exercise of oversight role through the holding of 12 meetings hosting and 5 field visits and one hearing in addition to holding meetings with a number of officials in the Ministries of Agriculture and Water Resources. 
The committee recommended the government's response to the decisions of the House of Representatives to pay the dues of farmers and activate the role of the Office of the Inspector General, pointing to the lack of allocations and financial imports and the government to withdraw several laws, which affects the legislative role, stressing the importance of conservation and development of marshes. 
For his part, MP Fratt al-Tamimi pointed out that the Committee on Agriculture and marshes dealing with serious files related to water and agricultural production and food and border crossings, calling for a general topic of discussion problems in the agricultural sector.
President Jubouri praised the Committee on Agriculture, its activities and its important role in solving the problems of the agricultural sector and farmers. 
On the other hand, the committee of civil society institutions followed a report on the hosting of the governor of Baghdad and members of the provincial council. 
The deputy Tafke Ahmed Mirza, the committee's president, said that the hosting address to the stagnant projects in the province of Baghdad, which reached the completion of about 80% of the work as well as the problems that guide.
The report recommended the formation of a committee headed by civil society institutions and members of the committees of finance, services, reconstruction, regions, economy, investment, civil society, integrity and deputies from the province of Baghdad as well as follow up with the Office of the Prime Minister and the advisers and the Economic Committee in the Prime Minister and the Ministry of Finance on the procedures of financing service projects and meetings between the Secretariat Baghdad and the province of Baghdad to resolve the problems and develop plans to enhance and maximize revenues for the province and the Secretariat in addition to follow-up implementation of policies and strategies that concern the province, both financial or economic. 
For his part, the President of the Council expressed thanks for the efforts made by the Committee of Civil Society Institutions, indicating that the recommendations will be put to the vote at a future meeting.
In another matter, MP Amer al-Khuzai reviewed the work of the Committee of Experts on the selection of members of the Electoral Commission during the last period, noting that the Committee of Experts reduced the candidates to 44 candidates after professional tests, noting that the selection of names of candidates are in accordance with the rules and laws in force. 
In his turn, MP Salah al-Jubouri, vice-chairman of the Committee of Experts, said that the committee wanted to read a report of the work of the Committee of Experts and not display the names of candidates as some MPs imagine, stressing that the decision to ratify the new members back to the House of Representatives. 
The President of the Council called on the members of the Committee of Experts to take all the observations and conditions required in consideration and work within the mechanisms of the objective to submit candidates to the Electoral Commission in order to give them confidence by the House of Representatives, announcing the scale of the report of the Committee of Experts on the agenda of the next meeting, calling on Ladies and Gentlemen Representatives to see the work Committee.
Mr. Jabouri was to be on Wednesday and Thursday to work for the parliamentary committees competent to mature important legislation.

The meeting was then adjourned.

 

The Iraqi 
Council of Representatives 
22/8/2017

 

http://ar.parliament.iq/2017/08/22/مجلس-النواب-ينهي-قراءة-قانونين-ويحيل-م/

[King Bean]

Time for these pampered fools to take another three week vacation while the country sits in turmoil and ruin. It's an endless circle of futility.

[235snack]

25 minutes ago, King Bean said:

Time for these pampered fools to take another three week vacation while the country sits in turmoil and ruin. It's an endless circle of futility.

Sorta like what we have here in the US

[jcfrag]

1 hour ago, 235snack said:

Sorta like what we have here in the US

The biggest problem with this country today is all of the propaganda the news co-medians spew forth! Now that is shameful the way everyone runs to facebook and their favorite choice of rhetoric that is written to persuade instead of report..... With the internet's arrival comes a new age of marketing instead of reporting...  

[yota691]

Why did I occupy the quorum of the parliamentary session today and where are the deputies?

Release date: 2017/8/22 23:10 • 418 times read

(Baghdad: Al Furat News) revealed a deputy for the reason for the disruption of the quorum for the parliamentary session today, which was lifted after the holiday of Eid al-Adha.

Al-Baiji told the {Euphrates News} that "today's meeting if it was not open to what was held because there is no quorum, and evidence of this was a simple laws because most of the deputies went to perform the Hajj and the other enjoys in the Kurdistan region or traveled abroad." 
He added that "the attendance was less than 100 deputies of all the blocks, and we could not vote on any law, and the agenda of the session is just a first reading of the laws," noting that "the lack of quorum for the meeting caused a failure to vote on important laws," adding " The Presidency of the Parliament of the responsibility of the non-completion of a quorum, where they had not to grant leave to the deputies until the end of the vote on all important laws. 
He pointed out that "the election law was completed voting on its paragraphs, and left only the materials for Kirkuk provincial elections, which were interrupted by differences between the region and the center."
"The members of the committee of experts are composed of two MPs and unfortunately they do not have experience as they were chosen according to the quotas of the committee," said Baige, referring to "the nomination of 9 names supported by the parties; but I think it will not Pass because of quotas. " 
He concluded that "the Independent Electoral Commission was better to be called the Electoral Commission for the elections," he said