Maliki's coalition: It was agreed to end points of contention with the draft election law and voting next Monday

[TBomb]

Maliki's coalition: It was agreed to end points of contention with the draft election law and voting next Monday
Thursday, September 26 / September 2013 14:47

 

[baghdad where]

Announced member of the parliamentary legal committee, Mahmoud Hassan, an agreement to end the political blocs points of contention with the draft election law.

 

 

Hassan said in a statement to all of Iraq [where], "The meeting, which was held today between the Legal Committee and the heads of political blocs was headed by Parliament Speaker Osama Najafi, During the meeting, the agreement to solve the seven points of contention in the draft electoral law will be next Monday to vote on the project . "

 

 

The House of Representatives on Thursday held its regular presence of 206 deputies to vote and read to several laws, the most prominent of the election law.

 

 

The parliamentary legal committee has ruled out the vote on the proposed law to amend the General Election Law in a session of the House of Representatives on Thursday.

 

 

Committee Chairman Khaled Huani told [where] "rule out that is the vote on the law in the parliament session tomorrow, because the law is not ready has not been completed, so there will be no vote on the election law," adding, "We are doing what we can in order to speed up the legislation of the law But some points of contention which is a political must be agreed upon before being presented in Parliament because it is related to the electoral system, so we hope to finish the legislation of the law during the next week. "2 ended.

 

http://www.alliraqnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=100623:2013-09-26-11-47-43&catid=41:2011-04-08-17-27-21&Itemid=86

Urgent .. Parliament lifted its next Saturday
Thursday, September 26 / September 2013 16:50
 

 

[baghdad - where]

Lifting of the House of Representatives its usual to next Saturday.

A parliamentary source told all of Iraq [where] on Thursday that "the House of Representatives raise its next Saturday after being postponed a vote on the proposal to amend the election law and an end to read a number of draft laws."

The House of Representatives has held its session today to vote and reading several laws. Ended.

 

http://www.alliraqnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=100638:2013-09-26-13-48-15&catid=46:2011-05-04-11-14-07&Itemid=77

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Iraq meets the legal Committee and leaders of blocs to finalize the electoral code

 

2013-09-26

 

Baghdad/older/

The State law, said Adel cherchab, Thursday, House speaker Osama Al-nujaifi, met with members of the parliamentary legal Committee, leaders of the blocks for the purpose of finalizing the electoral law.

Cherchab said that "the Parliament voted in its day a resolution to its baltsot on the electoral law, on Monday regardless to get a consensus on whether or not Tehran meeting today"

 

http://www.sna-news.net/index.php?aa=news&id22=11056

[kizer8]

What does passing of the electoral law mean?

[TBomb]

I hope this helps you understand the importance of this law.  If not, let me know.

 

"Electoral Law[edit source]

 

There have been several disputes about the electoral law that is to be used for the election. The current electoral law, which was also used in the 2009 election, states that if certain parties don't get enough votes, their votes and seats are given to the larger parties. In the 2009 election this led to many smaller parties failing to take any seats. Because of the disproportionate affect this law had on smaller parties, the Supreme Court of Iraq declared the law unconstitutional, as it restricted democracy.

In spite of this ruling, and mostly due to the fact that because the law benefits the largest parties they have little incentive to change it, the law has yet to be changed. If not changed, the unconstitutional nature of the law however would make the 2013 election results vulnerable to a legal challenge. As a result, although this does not currently effect the work of the Independent High Electoral Commission, IHEC has been calling on the Iraqi government to pass changes to the law.

In response to this, on 13 December 2012 the Iraqi parliament voted to adopt the Sainte-Laguë method as the new electoral method."

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_governorate_elections,_2013#Electoral_Law

 

 

 

 

September 22 / September 2013 
 

 

BAGHDAD / Yousef Salman

To postpone the vote on amending the election law in the light of differences blocs, says circles parliamentary Failure to complete the proposed amendments to the bill probably hides the desire large government supported by the National Alliance, concerning the extension of the formation Parliamentary current pretext of lack of agreement on the wording of the election and the distribution of seats makes it easier to turn the extension of the Government Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.

 

She said the Parliamentary Legal Committee, said the political blocs submit an objection after another, what makes it difficult to reach a formula acceptable to facilitate the passing of the election law. She pointed to the existence of a legal political debate about history, which is supposed to ceiling calculated the actual beginning of the current session.

 

The MP said Mustafa nice that the first formal session of the current Parliament was held on the fourteenth of June 2009 and stayed open until November of the same year at the time. He pointed out that attempts to manipulate the age current session and Maitalq of the open meeting paragraph.

 

 Mustafa added that there is pushing as the period between the months of June and November, a single session of the House of Representatives Mainshab implicitly on the age of the government and the current session. He pointed out that the Iraqi constitution provides for a general election 45 days before the end of the age of the existing parliamentary session.

 

He said the current parliament him less than a month to resolve amend the election law if it wants to meet a federal court, where it is supposed that the ends of the approval of the amendments by the end of next October, because the Electoral Commission require receipt of the law on any electoral process six months before the date for the ballot.

 

 For his part, MP Talal Zobaie that the failure to approve the amendment of the electoral law will be extended to the government and parliament, both because the executive order is governed by the survival of the legislative authority,expecting to repeat the scenario to extend the work of the parliament, as happened in Iraq's Kurdistan region even with the adoption of the electoral law.

 

 He Zobaie that the Federal Court considered that 14 June is the date the actual start of the session of the current parliamentary, but there are those who believe that the parliamentary session ends in March 2014 and to consider the period of the months of March to June (the date on which the ratification of the results) holiday parliamentary delay in the Federal Court ratification of the results at the time.

http://www.uragency.net/2012-03-11-16-31-52/2012-03-11-16-33-35/23177-2013-09-22-13-55-51.html

Edited September 26, 2013 by TBomb

[kizer8]

I hope this helps you understand the importance of this law.  If not, let me know.

 

"Electoral Law[edit source]

 

There have been several disputes about the electoral law that is to be used for the election. The current electoral law, which was also used in the 2009 election, states that if certain parties don't get enough votes, their votes and seats are given to the larger parties. In the 2009 election this led to many smaller parties failing to take any seats. Because of the disproportionate affect this law had on smaller parties, the Supreme Court of Iraq declared the law unconstitutional, as it restricted democracy.

In spite of this ruling, and mostly due to the fact that because the law benefits the largest parties they have little incentive to change it, the law has yet to be changed. If not changed, the unconstitutional nature of the law however would make the 2013 election results vulnerable to a legal challenge. As a result, although this does not currently effect the work of the Independent High Electoral Commission, IHEC has been calling on the Iraqi government to pass changes to the law.

In response to this, on 13 December 2012 the Iraqi parliament voted to adopt the Sainte-Laguë method as the new electoral method."

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_governorate_elections,_2013#Electoral_Law

 

 

 

 

September 22 / September 2013 

 

 

BAGHDAD / Yousef Salman

To postpone the vote on amending the election law in the light of differences blocs, says circles parliamentary Failure to complete the proposed amendments to the bill probably hides the desire large government supported by the National Alliance, concerning the extension of the formation Parliamentary current pretext of lack of agreement on the wording of the election and the distribution of seats makes it easier to turn the extension of the Government Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.

 

She said the Parliamentary Legal Committee, said the political blocs submit an objection after another, what makes it difficult to reach a formula acceptable to facilitate the passing of the election law. She pointed to the existence of a legal political debate about history, which is supposed to ceiling calculated the actual beginning of the current session.

 

The MP said Mustafa nice that the first formal session of the current Parliament was held on the fourteenth of June 2009 and stayed open until November of the same year at the time. He pointed out that attempts to manipulate the age current session and Maitalq of the open meeting paragraph.

 

 Mustafa added that there is pushing as the period between the months of June and November, a single session of the House of Representatives Mainshab implicitly on the age of the government and the current session. He pointed out that the Iraqi constitution provides for a general election 45 days before the end of the age of the existing parliamentary session.

 

He said the current parliament him less than a month to resolve amend the election law if it wants to meet a federal court, where it is supposed that the ends of the approval of the amendments by the end of next October, because the Electoral Commission require receipt of the law on any electoral process six months before the date for the ballot.

 

 For his part, MP Talal Zobaie that the failure to approve the amendment of the electoral law will be extended to the government and parliament, both because the executive order is governed by the survival of the legislative authority,expecting to repeat the scenario to extend the work of the parliament, as happened in Iraq's Kurdistan region even with the adoption of the electoral law.

 

 He Zobaie that the Federal Court considered that 14 June is the date the actual start of the session of the current parliamentary, but there are those who believe that the parliamentary session ends in March 2014 and to consider the period of the months of March to June (the date on which the ratification of the results) holiday parliamentary delay in the Federal Court ratification of the results at the time.

http://www.uragency.net/2012-03-11-16-31-52/2012-03-11-16-33-35/23177-2013-09-22-13-55-51.html

 

Thx, appreciate it.