An amendment to the election law prevents the crowd from the nomination and covered by your vote

An amendment to the election law prevents the crowd from the nomination and covered by your vote



The House of Representatives is facing a legal dilemma does not find a solution only by resorting to political consensus between the blocs. This predicament is the existence of five drafts of the law of parliamentary elections scheduled for next year.
The intense stalemate Btzahm parliament drafts on the table, in addition to the presence of two official drafts submitted by the Presidency and the Council of Ministers, the parliamentary blocs , in turn , presented drafts containing proposals wish for inclusion on the final version of the law of parliament elections.
On the other side of competing amendments sent by the government to the parliament elections law, the draft sent by the Presidency of the Republic before several months.
The version sent by the Presidency of the Republic of the oldest drafts , which came to parliament, but the objections have addressed the National Alliance, Ladeit to its dimensions since they give preference to small blocks on the big account.
It was the (range) has revealed, early this May, on the amendments made by the government to parliament elections law No. (45) for the year 2013, which included establishing the age of the candidate and the school certificate and the number of candidates and electoral districts.
He ended the House of Representatives, during the session last Tuesday, the first reading of the First Amendment to the law of the House of Representatives elections.
The government draft includes 8 amendments. Explains (Article 1) "open list", as it refers to the body as part of the popular crowd banned from the nomination of the armed forces, and covered by your vote, as referred to in Article (8 / first).
Also prevent the government amendments run the Electoral Commission staff, including members of the board and the incumbents of senior positions, and excludes from the passed 4 years after the end of their work with UNHCR.
The draft also provides for government in (Article 5) on " the number of candidates in the list shall not exceed the number of constituency seats."
Proposes (Article 6) of amendments to the distribution of electoral districts on the basis of electoral districts for each province.
MP says Salim Shawki, a member of the Legal Committee, in a statement (term) yesterday that " the government version of the law of the House of Representatives elections include amendments included the adoption of the method of calculating seats according to the St. lego rate system by dividing the valid votes for lists of competing numbers (1.6, 3rd, 5th, 7 and 9). "
Shawki added that the "open list means the start of the screening of four people, three men and a woman, or that the number of candidates to more than twice as allocated per constituency seats, or that the electoral list will be made up of the same number assigned constituency seats."
And political parties to conduct intensive consultations to postpone the upcoming parliamentary elections that the current government has the powers of executive, legislative, and working to create the right conditions to set new dates for the forthcoming parliamentary elections.
And collide with the desire of these actors influential blocs veto of his fame, which was quick to hold multiple consultative meetings, came up with an agreement to hold parliamentary elections on schedule, and the election of the Commission
new.
According to the mass citizen member of the "election law identified the age of the candidate for membership of the House of Representatives thirty years, provided receiving a bachelor 's degree."
On the multiple drafts of electoral laws before the parliament, Salim Shawki says that " the Parliamentary Legal Committee sent a letter to the Presidency of the Council of Representatives in order to determine the version to be approved by the five drafts received , " stressing that " the subject was referred to the presidency of the parliament to decide it soon."
The MP is expected Basra that "resort to the presidency of the Council meeting with heads of political blocs , or to resort to voting on one of the five copies inside the dome of the House of Representatives to choose one of them."
In the same context, MP Ali mentor, the other member of the Legal Committee, said that "revealed the citizen blocks the National Coalition and the Liberals presented the Legal Committee proposals for laws to regulate parliamentary voting, as well as the existence of two bills , one of the Presidency of the Republic and the other
from the government."
And it announced that the Presidency of the Republic, in February last, send a draft election for the House of Representatives in 2018 to the Parliament Act. Under the draft of the mixed system was adopted in the distribution of seats equally between the winners and losers , the highest blocks, also it proposes lowering the candidacy age to the age of 25 and only study certificate
prep.
The proposed draft of the Presidency of the Republic to be "President of the Republic is the one who sets the election date after coordination with the Council of Ministers and the Supreme Electoral Commission before the date of the ballot no later than ninety days."
The (range) revealed, last February, for political talks about the leaks (Shiite veto) lifted the National Alliance generally draft prepared by the Presidency for the Law of the parliamentary elections because of objections to the electoral system.
MP says the guide, in a statement (term) yesterday, " The oldest of these copies is the project submitted by the Presidency of the Republic, who arrived in the parliament and was discussed within the Legal Committee , " asserting that "these drafts need a political consensus before their adoption."
He noted a member of the Legal Committee that " the National Alliance, agreed in previous meetings with the Prime Minister, to submit a new election law in order to avoid problems and reservations and differences on the electoral denominator electoral circles and other
things."

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