Parliament ends the first reading of the amnesty law and votes on the budget amendment

Parliament ends the first reading of the amnesty law and votes on the budget amendment


 Baghdad / Range

The House of Representatives ended on Monday the first reading of the proposed amendment to the first law of amnesty as well as the vote on the draft bill amended federal general for the year 2017. The vote was postponed on the draft law on freedom of expression and assembly and peaceful demonstration.


This came during the session of the House of Representatives ordinary eighth of the first legislative term of the fourth legislative year, which was held under the chairmanship of Salim Jubouri in the presence of 180 deputies, according to a statement obtained (range) a copy of it. Government and parliamentary views over the past period have varied over the inclusion of the amnesty law for kidnappings and the forgery of educational certificates for the post of Director-General and above, which has led to the restoration of the amnesty law to the executive branch for amendment.
The prime minister voiced his strong opposition to the amendments made by the House of Representatives to the draft amnesty law drafted by the government. Al-Mada recently obtained an amnesty issued by the Ministry of Justice on 22 March demanding that Nasiriya prison be allowed to release persons who were convicted of amnesty under Article 4 of the Penal Code. At the end of last August, the House of Representatives voted on the amnesty law and excludes 13 categories of crimes, including: the terrorist crime that resulted in permanent killing or disability, and the crimes of human trafficking and all that falls under the heading of "captivity". The law also excluded kidnappings, which resulted in the death of the abductor or the unaccounted for, perpetual disability, rape crimes, smuggling of antiquities and money-laundering offenses. Parliament Speaker Salim al-Jubouri decided at the start of the session on Monday to postpone the consideration of the appeals submitted on the validity of the membership of some MPs because he needed two-thirds of the members of the council. The House of Representatives voted on the draft law on the ratification of the documents of the Bucharest Conference for the year 2004 attached to the Universal Postal Convention submitted by the Committees on Foreign Relations, Services, Reconstruction and Finance. The Council completed the first reading of the proposed law to commemorate the sacrifices of the martyrs of the war against the gangs of the terrorist and accelerate the completion of their transactions and the care of the wounds of the victims and victims of political prisoners.
The statement said that "the Council completed the first reading of the proposed law of the first amendment to the law of general amnesty No. 27 of 2016 submitted by the Legal Committee in view of the issues that appeared in the application of the law in the courts and the existence of a large number of cases that require the inclusion of a general amnesty regarding the assignment of the legal representative of the departments and similar names To those who have been included in the amnesty law of 2008 ". The House of Representatives, according to the statement, " Vote on the draft law of the General Budget amended the fiscal year of 2017 submitted by the Finance Committee, "The Speaker of the Parliament that" the Council added in the budget amendment two billion dinars to the Ministry of Water Resources to address the water problems related to the water crisis in the province of Babylon. " Report and discussion of the draft law on the accession of the Republic of Iraq to the Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment and its Protocol on matters relating to aircraft equipment and supplementary declarations for accession to the Republic of Iraq submitted by the Relations Committees Foreign Affairs, Services and Reconstruction ".

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Articles before have stated New rate with this budget

BUt that was like 7-8 months ago lol