Adel Abd Al Mahdi: absence of the House of Representatives threatens to challenge the legitimacy of the political system

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Adel Abd Al Mahdi: absence of the House of Representatives threatens to challenge the legitimacy of the political system By: admin

Date: Thursday 26-08-2010 06: 04 PM

Baghdad press-Baghdad

He said the vice-president of the republic, Adel Abdul Mahdi, "it should not be the political blocs and the concept of open meeting an excuse by deputies in absence to attend to the parliament," he said. He said that " the absence of the House of Representatives is the absence of the status of the legitimacy of the political system in Iraq."

And the Information Office of Abd al Mahdi in a statement of claim " in whose presence in the House of Representatives building, for the second day in succession, the resumption of the work under the dome of the parliament to contribute to the actors in ending the political crisis that devastates the country for more than five months." He pointed out that "should not be the political blocs excuse by deputies in absence to attend in the House of Representatives, and we must not be the concept of open meeting an excuse to be absent during, for the second consecutive day, I come here, وساحضر in the coming days, in order to give a clear message about the importance of this institution the constitutional give legitimacy to the rest of the institutions, and its absence in this way is to challenge the legitimacy of the political system in Iraq," he said.

Abdul-Mahdi said that "this is not a sit-in, but is a clear message by the vice-president of the republic as a deputy in the parliament it to his brothers and his colleagues that the elected officials was in kind, that is to say, the presence of some people did not need for the absence of others, especially at the beginning of the establishment of the work of the Council of Representatives their presence is very important and the section which is done in front of the God, to whom is all praise and majesty, and the people have no lists or كتلهم with the need to respect the blocs," he said.

He added: "Therefore, we must give serious consideration to the fact that the absence of the House of Representatives is the absence of a legitimate Iraqi political regime and, accordingly, this can lead to serious consequences if the presence of the House of Representatives, the concept of institutional and not only ككتل representative, they can also to provide required solutions, not just the political blocs, Iraqi voters, especially in these elections, which were conducted in line with the Open, where elected certain candidates themselves and not only lists, and was commissioned a mandate directly in kind to with due respect for the rules of the parliamentary blocs, which is why I when I did not ask the Blocs of solidarity in this of work and did not tell them and told them but they are heard from the media because I don't want to make the issue of the party to the centre one but address the individual within the constitutional duties for which he was elected in the context of the constitutional oath he has played," he said.

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