12/07/2012
Week deadline to approve the provincial elections law
Congress «morning»: consensus hampered passed in the parliament
Baghdad - Muhannad Abdul Wahab
Has identified the Presidency of the Council of Representatives within one week to approve the Act to amend the provincial elections law.
This was announced by MP Abbas al-Bayati's "Brief Center for the Iraqi Media Network , "that" the Legal Committee and the Committee of the regions and provinces to progress their report and its amendments no later than next Monday.
"He noted that the delay in approving the election of the provincial law is not about the financial aspect, but the legal aspect, as the So far, the law did not recognize and therefore can not be played Commission measures of trends without knowing the law and how to work on the application of the law.
And the al-Bayati said" the House of Representatives is keen that the elections will be held on time and if delayed The delay due to technical reasons and not for other reasons, "stressing that" the law of the provincial law is sensitive and there are two laws with respect to the provincial councils, provincial councils election law and the law of the powers of provincial councils and therefore there are some modifications that may affect number of members of councils, as well as some of their powers in terms of expansion and give more administrative decentralization, and is no doubt that these laws need to be sensitive to the political consensus and the consensus from within the blocks if they do not need to agree to delay all of this delay, and compatibility is the last of this law and hope to be able to resolve their differences on the blocks laws quickly next week.
"For his part, MP for the Kurdistan Alliance Mahma Khalil that the Kurdistan Alliance does not agree to postpone the elections. and science" Brief Center for the Iraqi Media Network, "The local elections will be held as scheduled, where sources close to the government:" The Council of Ministers did not wish to delay the election and will support the set up on time, "stating that" the Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki himself is interested in the issue and does not want to disrupt the democratic process is one day. "said Khalil's" Brief Center for the Iraqi Media Network, "that" there must be respect for the timing of the temporal and the constitutional requirements, "noting that "the election of provincial councils is a popular demand." as MP Khalid Asadi said the law of the provincial councils of important laws, which will hopefully be prescribed by the House of Representatives in the coming days.
He told the "Center Brief for the Iraqi Media Network, "that" delayed provincial election law was due to the amendment of the claims by some political blocs, "noting that" the National Alliance is keen on the amendment in order to achieve greater proportion of justice. "said Asadi that "there is a split in dealing with this law and there are those who demand that he remain as it is detailed and demanding amendments and others calling for partial amendments to this law," stressing the lack of a unified vision in the House about it. He noted that "the political consensus does not mean to pass things wrong or unconstitutional, but it means a consensus on the question of the blocks."
In the meantime, she said to the Committee of the Regions and the provinces that they will raise the parliamentary amendments to the law of the regions and governorates not organized Province No. 21 of 2008 to the Presidency of the Council.
Deputy Chairman of the Committee's Mansour Al-Tamimi (Brief Center for the Iraqi Media Network): The committee "will raise the law of 21 amendments to the Presidency of the Council of Representatives to be included on the agenda of future meetings in order to read it a second reading and open discussion about it.
"explained Al-Tamimi that" the government until now did not send any proposed amendments to the law, but the experts of the Ministries of State for Provincial Affairs and the House of Representatives in addition to experts the Council of State were present with us in the writing of the amendments.
"the new amendments and granted wider powers to provincial councils, including do not conflict with the powers of the federal government.
The amendments included a proposal to reduce the number of members of boards of the province so that it identifies seats for each 150 thousand citizens instead of seat for every 100 thousand. also included amendments also give the members of the provincial employees' end of service and not the allocation of pensions to them and to withdraw the status of provincial legislation to mind the question of the House of Representatives is vested exclusively.
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