The retirement service stopped the retirement of former members of parliament

10 YEARS LATER · June 7, 2018

4 hours ago, KDuesing said:

So I now wonder who will be the new winners of the Iraq election?

If these Pin Heads were actually able to swing/rig this back in their favor . . . I wouldn't give these idiots much of a chance of living a long life. The regular folks would be coming after them with Axes, Pitchforks, Flaming torches and such. I believe the Theme of this party would Be " HANG'EM HIGH " - :cowboy:

yota691 · June 7, 2018

Parliament is making the third amendment to the electoral law

07/6/2018 12:00 am

Baghdad / Sabah / Muhannad Abdul Wahab
cut the Iraqi Council of Representatives the way before the Electoral Commission, moving towards the adoption of electronic counting and sorting, despite the announcement of the election results, as voted on Wednesday to oblige the adoption of counting and sorting by hand.
The decision of the last parliament reintroduced the electoral process to the same mechanism of counting and counting on which the three previous sessions (2006-2010 and 2014) were adopted due to the many complaints and objections to the violations that were included in the elections held last May.
At the beginning of the meeting, the President of the Council, Salim al-Jubouri, according to a statement received "morning", a copy of it, "The House of Representatives aims at its extraordinary meeting to complete the vote on the law amendment of the third election law, which comes in line with the need of the stage and circumstances and reflect the legislative will through which the Council seeks To correct the course of the elections in line with the democratic parliamentary system for which the Iraqis
paid a heavy price.
He added that "in this unified parliamentary movement, which meets the requirements of the historic moment of Iraq, but the realization of the right and impartiality of the political process and elections from the chaos that reached the stage of certainty, which will lead in the event of these doubts to establish the next building a shaky is not true to remain
an object of objection» .
He explained that "the House of Representatives and through its constitutional legislative performance, which continues until June 30, working to the last moment to complete the necessary legislation based on the need of the homeland and the citizen and the requirements of the stage to which the historical position belongs," praising "the government decision, which called for a number of measures that would Correcting the electoral situation and the Council's standing with every national effort that seeks to establish democracy and achieve constitutional and legal justice and to prevent interlocutors tampering with the future of the country to have the will to distort it from the will of the
people ».
Jubouri said that "the effort of the Iraqi Council of Representatives is the right step in the right direction as it will fortify the political process and electoral practice of the greed of corrupt or counterfeiters who seek to reach the source of the decision by stealing the will of the people and falsify the facts," noting that "the House of Representatives, which carries out its national mission can not To ignore or ignore the popular and national need to stand in the face of the challenges facing the country, especially the recent water crisis. "
The Council also completed the vote on the proposed third amendment law of the House of Representatives Elections Law No. 45 of 2013 with the aim of achieving transparency in the election results, maintaining the democratic system of Iraq and protecting the electoral process in a way that secures confidence in the fairness and fairness of the elections. And for the manual counting and sorting in the whole of Iraq, "according to the statement.
Jubouri stressed that "the amendment of the election law, which has been voted on, is preferable to other recommendations issued," giving thanks and appreciation to the Committee formed by the Council of Representatives and charged with fact-finding and the committee formed by the Council of Ministers on the electoral process.
According to the correspondent "morning", the House of Representatives held its meeting on Wednesday evening, headed by its chairman Salim al-Jubouri and the presence of 172 deputies, and voted on the third amendment to the law of elections of the House of Representatives, which included the abolition of Article 38 of the Electoral Commission, which provides for electronic counting and sorting, Electoral Commission to re - counting and manual counting in all parts of Iraq.
And decided to keep its meeting open and resume at 4 pm on Saturday.
For his part, the MP for the coalition of state law Khaled al-Asadi said in a statement to "morning", from within the corridors of parliament: The House of Representatives voted fully on the third amendment to the election law through a session full quorum, "adding to" re-counting and manual counting in all stations in Iraq".
For his part, MP for the coalition of Iraqi forces Ahmed Mashhadani, in a statement to "morning", that the presence of deputies in this meeting comes to correct the electoral process and prevent questioning the legitimacy of the political system in Iraq.
MP Mohammed al-Chihoud, referring to the "morning", that "the vote on the amendment of the law is a victory for democracy on the wills of forgery, which tried to change the paths of the political process through those bodies adopted in counting and
sorting."
In the same context, the legal expert Tariq Harb, told the "morning", "Every law issued by the House of Representatives is legitimate, only in case of cancellation or cancellation by the Federal Supreme Court, as happened with the budget law, where it was canceled 38 A paragraph by the court, but the law issued by the law is in force ».
"Whoever wants to challenge the session, the vote, the method of voting or the rules in question, he has to go to the federal court.

yota691 · June 7, 2018

Under the supervision of the Supreme Judicial Council and the presence of agents of blocs and representatives of the United Nations

The Iraqi parliament orders the recounting and counting of votes manually in the elections

Published: 07/06/2018

BAGHDAD (Reuters) -

The Iraqi parliament decided yesterday to compel the Electoral Commission to re-count the votes in the last legislative elections held a month ago, in which cleric Moqtada al-Sadr won a surprise victory. He also decided to suspend the election commission, Judges to oversee the process,

And after several attempts failed to achieve the required quorum, 173 deputies out of 328 in the outgoing parliament extraordinary session, yesterday, and voted on the law of the third amendment to the law of parliamentary elections in favor of committing the Commission to carry out a new hand census across the country to nearly 11 million votes, Under the supervision of the Supreme Judicial Council and the presence of agents of political entities and representatives of the United Nations. The parliament confirmed yesterday that the recount must be done manually without the use of any machines. And decided «to compel the Electoral Commission to re-count and manual counting of the results of the elections nationwide and the assignment of nine judges to oversee this matter». He also decided to stop the work of the Electoral Commission in Baghdad and its offices in the provinces, and the dismissal of its nine members who will be replaced by judges.
Suron's coalition, backed by religious leader Moqtada al-Sadr, surprised everyone by winning first place in the electoral ladder, ahead of Al-Fateh's coalition, especially the leaders of the popular crowd, making him the most prominent player to form the largest bloc in the House of Representatives. The election saw a record boycott, with Iraqis ignoring the political elite, which has been under suspicion of corruption and ruling the country since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein. Following the publication of the results, political figures who have been in power for years have called for re-counting, counting or canceling the election results, particularly criticizing the use of electronic voting for the first time in the country. The largest and most vulnerable protest movement appears in Kirkuk's multi-ethnic and oil-rich province. The Kurds, who make up the majority, the Arabs and the Turkmen, exchanged threats, forcing the authorities to declare a curfew the night after the elections.
The Iraqi Vice President Iyad Allawi, yesterday, his support for the decision of the Council of Ministers to vote on the decisions of the Committee formed to follow up the electoral violations, describing it as «great step» to maintain the integrity of the electoral process and uncover the blatant violations experienced by the parties behind them. Allawi said in a statement, «we were the first to demand full judicial supervision over the election file instead of the adoption of politicization and quotas in the selection of the Commission, which proved the facts and events failed to manage the electoral process», majestic «House of Representatives to mobilize efforts to accelerate the vote on the amendment of the election law and strengthen the decision of the Council of Ministers . He called on the judicial authorities to "deal with the decisions of the Council of Ministers and bring those involved in the crimes of corruption and electoral fraud to receive their fair compensation," warning that "any slowdown in the implementation of those decisions will have negative repercussions on the entire political process."

10 YEARS LATER · June 7, 2018

Well, just glad those fingertips are aren't brown . . .

yota691 · June 7, 2018

Needs to be ratified to become a law....

MPs: Infallible may challenge the new amendment to the election law

Since 2018-06-07 at 09:26 (Baghdad time)

Baghdad Mawazine News

Members of the House of Representatives, on Thursday, challenged the President of the Republic Fuad Masum, the new amendment to the election law, which was voted by the Council in its extraordinary session yesterday.

"According to the Iraqi constitution, the laws passed by parliament need to be ratified by the president of the republic within two weeks," Al-Hayat newspaper said in a report.

He ruled out the deputies attended the session of parliament yesterday, as they considered that President Fuad Masum may decide to appeal the new amendment to the election law, and also challenged previously the decisions issued by the parliament in this regard, according to the newspaper.

The newspaper added that "despite the issuance of new resolutions in the form of a law, which is consistent with decisions taken by the Iraqi Council of Ministers yesterday in the same context, but a debate was raised yesterday on the constitutionality of the amendment made by the Parliament on the election law, as the amendment imposes its application retroactively on the elections Which took place on the 12th of last month, which may open the door to a new challenge to the law before the Constitutional Court.

The newspaper quoted sources obedient to say: "The new law of the parliament, if applied, may require several weeks to be approved constitutionally before the start of counting and manual sorting of the ballot boxes."

The parliament passed an extraordinary session on Wednesday, a third amendment to the election law, which included the imposition of a manual counting and counting in all of Iraq, and the abolition of electronic counting, including even the canceled funds. Under the new law, the elections were completely abolished, and the elections for displaced persons and conditional voting were canceled

yota691 · June 7, 2018

Zebari: The House of Representatives and ministers committed constitutional and legal violations related to the elections

Since 2018-06-07 at 12:24 (Baghdad time)

Baghdad - Mawazine News

The leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), Hoshyar Zebari, on Thursday accused the House of Representatives and the ministers of committing constitutional and legal violations related to their decisions on the electoral process and the Independent High Electoral Commission and warned of serious consequences for security, stability and civil peace in the country.

"Many constitutional and legal violations have been committed by the House of Representatives and the government," said Zebari, in his page on the social networking site (Facebook), and read by "Mawazin News", adding that "the current mandate of the House of Representatives has expired and is not entitled to practice Its powers relating to legislation. "

He added that "the House of Representatives is authorized to submit bills to the government for the purpose of submission as draft laws of the House of Representatives, not the authority to submit a bill for itself and adoption by him," stressing that "there is no in the Constitution and the rules of procedure of the House of Representatives that allows open meetings."

He pointed out that "the House of Representatives made itself a rival and a ruling, according to the opinion of senior legal officers, in the amendment of the election law for the purpose of making gains for its members losers and this is contrary to the principles of legal stability.

On the freezing of the work of the Commission and waving to dismiss members, said Zebari, "The Commission is not linked to the House of Representatives, but under the control of the ministries and the state bodies, and therefore the House of Representatives is not authorized to take decisions to dismiss the commissioners or interference in its affairs only in accordance with the Constitution and the law.

He added, "The House of Representatives is not authorized to interfere in the affairs of the Supreme Judicial Council and therefore is not entitled to the decision to assign judges to replace the members of the Commission," and "not only the authority of the Council of Ministers to form a committee to intervene in the affairs of the Electoral Commission for elections, , And governed by its own law, noting that the government is currently a caretaker government.

Zebari warned that "these blatant violations will have serious consequences for security, stability and civil peace in the country and the entire democratic process."

The House voted during its extraordinary session held under the chairmanship of its president, Salim al-Jubouri, on Wednesday to freeze the work of the Independent High Electoral Commission, while also voted to amend the entire law of the elections of the Council of Representatives No. (45) for the year 2013.

The parliament also voted to form a fact-finding committee on the electoral process, in addition to voting on the obligation of the Commission to conduct the counting and manual counting of all ballot boxes throughout Iraq and the recounting and the promise of the results of canceled stations.

And voted for the assignment of nine judges instead of the current members of the Commission, also voted to adopt the recommendations of the Council of Ministers on the elections.

The House of Representatives held its special session on the results of the elections and the charges against the Electoral Commission for the elections on the fraud and manipulation of the votes of the voters, this afternoon, headed by its chairman Salim Jubouri, in the presence of more than 172 deputies.

The Council of Ministers approved the conclusions and recommendations of the High Committee, which was formed on the first day of Tuesday, in view of the violations that accompanied the electoral process.

The Council approved the recommendations and approved them, including counting and manual sorting by 5% and also the cancellation of the results of the elections abroad and the displaced to prove serious and deliberate violations.

The Independent High Electoral Commission in Iraq, announced the dawn of Saturday, May 19, 2018, the victory of the bloc, "Sarun" led by Muqtada al-Sadr in the parliamentary elections, and get 54 seats, came in second place the block of conquest led by Hadi al-Ameri, got 47 seats, Led by Prime Minister Haider Abadi, winning 42 seats.

The Iraqis voted on Saturday 12 May 2018 to elect a new parliament. These elections are the first after the defeat of the "Da'ash" organization, while the Independent Electoral Commission announced that the participation rate in the elections reached 44%.

yota691 · June 7, 2018

National Union: We filed a complaint with the judiciary regarding the parliamentary decisions related to the elections

Since 2018-06-07 at 12:32 (Baghdad time)

Special - Mawazine News

The deputy leader of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan in Kirkuk, Rond Mullah Mahmoud, on Thursday, to lodge a complaint with the judiciary regarding the recent parliamentary decisions related to the electoral process, while stressing that the decisions of the parliament is targeting the winning blocs in all cities of Iraq and not only the National Union.

"Mullah Mahmoud, told Mawazin News that" the recent parliament session and the decisions taken by it were not constitutional or legal and there are major violations, "pointing out that" these decisions are targeting the winning blocs in all cities of Iraq and not only the National Union. "

"We believe that these decisions are an attempt to return the losers in any way," he said, revealing that "the National Union filed a complaint to the judiciary regarding the decisions of Parliament and pending the position of the court."

He stressed that "the National Union will not accept any change affects the results and the number of seats obtained in Kirkuk because it is a benefit for him and the masses that voted for him."