Parliament postpones amendment amnesty and read a law for the parliamentary elections

Parliament postpones amendment amnesty and read a law for the parliamentary elections

 Baghdad / term

It ended the House of Representatives, yesterday, the first reading of the draft law of the First Amendment to the House of Representatives election law, while postponed the vote on the first draft amendment to the law of the amnesty law.
The parliament speaker announced Salim al - Jubouri , meet the formalities of six interrogation requests.
This came during the thirty - sixth session of the House of Representatives , which was held on Tuesday under the chairmanship of al - Jubouri and was attended by 170 deputies, according to a statement.
The session witnessed the vote on the project included the Judicial Institute to the Supreme Judicial Council Act in order to link the Judicial Institute of the Supreme Judicial Council, as a body concerned with the preparation of judges and public prosecutors.
The Council proceeded to vote on a draft reform of the inmates and depositors law, to be completed at a subsequent meeting after the legal quorum.
During the meeting, MP Amer al - Khuzai, Chairman of the Committee of Experts for the selection of the Board of the Electoral Commission, that the committee "managed after holding intensive meetings of the completion of the first stage of the screening of candidates numbering 118 candidates." " It will be the legislative holiday investment to send correspondences to the state institutions concerned about the validity of the candidates for membership of the Commission."
The Chairman of the Parliament Committee on continuing its work during the legislative recess in order to interview candidates and sort the names of candidates for membership of the Council of the Electoral Commission.
In the context of the meeting, the President of the Parliament that "the House of Representatives revealed six interrogation requests met the formal procedures."
He added Jubouri that " the issue of references with house around forms on granting the questioner to the minister or not , " noting that "the House of Representatives gave the Federal Court of inquiries concerning references with mandatory sent to the Minister questioner, and the decision of the Federal Court that the answer requirements on the questions addressed to the Minister of the questioner to provide with questions and the basis of photographs and documents, on which the interrogation, that preserves the evidence and continued references with the treasury of the House of Representatives. "
He Jubouri that " the presidency of the Council will send all references with the masters of the respondents for the purpose of determining the dates for questioning , " stressing that "the House of Representatives is committed to accountability for the respondents to be informed of the person questioned isnaads provided to him."
Furthermore, Parliament postponed the vote on the first amendment to the Amnesty Law No. (27) for the year 2016 as parliament ended the first reading of the draft law of the First Amendment to the Iraqi Council of Representatives Elections Law No. (45) for the year 2013 submitted by the Legal Committee.
In the meantime, he criticized the MP Ammar Tohme, head of virtue block, version sent by the government to the law of parliamentary elections, saying it is in the interest of large lists.
He said Tohme, in a statement received (range) a copy of it, he "was supposed to be read a draft election law sent by the Presidency of the Republic instead of the draft law submitted by the government on the basis of Article 123 of the rules of procedure , which stipulates the invalidity of the assignment of the project to the competent committees and then read it if it was preceded by a law dealing with the same subject , which the elections. "
The prime virtue bloc that " the law of the Presidency of the Republic guarantees the way for the distribution of seats more realistic and contribute to the expansion of political participation and stimulate the increase in the rate of participation in the elections , " he said, adding " the adoption of the distribution of seats in accordance with the highest votes from among the candidates by a mechanism (50%) of the constituency seats. "
The MP Ammar Tohme that " the same government project included in some of its paragraphs and replace members of the distribution of seats within a single list principle of the highest votes among the candidates , which is further evidence of the reality of this proposal and to achieve justice by higher government project."


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