Sadr criticizes the provincial elections law: its legislation is a death for reform

Sadr criticizes the provincial elections law: its legislation is a death for reform


 Baghdad - Dhi Qar - Babylon / Range

Raising the leader of the Sadrist movement Moqtada al-Sadr, yesterday, 6 demands, most notably a change in the provincial elections law, which the House of Representatives began some paragraphs last week, and refused to postpone the elections even in the liberated territories soon.
Baghdad and the provinces of the center and the south, yesterday, demonstrations reject the current version of the provincial elections law.
Sadr gave a speech in front of thousands of his supporters gathered yesterday in Tahrir Square.
Sadr's office has already called for mass demonstrations in Baghdad and the provinces, with news leaked about his arrival in Baghdad on Thursday.
Since midday on Friday, Baghdad has witnessed tight security measures and a partial cut of roads after news of Sadr's participation in the demonstration.
Demonstrators began arriving in Tahrir Square after midday. The demonstrators carried banners demanding the dismissal of the Electoral Commission and Iraqi flags.
He said the crowd (the range) that thousands attended the demonstration and listened to the word of the chest addressed to them, noting that the demonstrators withdrew after the end of the word of their leader.
"I would like to thank the great people for passing the election law, especially the vote distribution of St. Lego 1.9 by the dominant political forces," Sadr said in a brief speech. "This law is a death for the people's aspirations and aspirations for reform."
"This law represents an incubator for the whales of corruption who reach power and steal the people's strength," he said, adding that "the law proves their chairs and holds their seats, selling the Iraqi territories again, as they sold Mosul and Anbar, and Hihat clubs to restrain them or to abandon them and let them be extinct. Another inch, whatever the sacrifices. "
The speech included the leader of the Sadrist movement 6 other demands, the most important of which is "to limit the arms of the state" , Directed his speech to the prime minister, who he described as wrestling with a legacy left by his predecessor, that he "is obliged to complete the course of reform at a steady pace."
He called for "the integration of disciplined elements within the official armed forces and placed under the control of the state, and work to withdraw arms from citizens and armed factions, and accelerate the reconstruction of the destruction and return of displaced persons."
He also called for "steadfastness on the date of the elections, even in the liberated areas soon, and there should be UN supervision of the current Commission in case it has not been changed."
He called on Sadr to "mandate the army to hold liberated areas, borders and the like," as he put it.
Dhi Qar witnessed a similar demonstration organized by thousands of people in the province of Dhi Qar yesterday, in front of the Office of the House of Representatives in the province to demand the abolition of St. Lego electoral system 1.9.
"Thousands of people from the province of Dhi Qar from the Sadrist movement, civil forces and various popular sectors took part in the demonstration to denounce the adoption of the amended St Lego electoral system and demand its annulment and the enactment of an alternative electoral law," said Abu Rabee al-Nasiri, one of the organizers of the demonstration. From the will of the masses to reform and respect their electoral choice. "
Naciri added that "the masses were disappointed by the Parliament's approval of this unfair electoral system, it did not respect the will of the masses and the demands of the demonstrators to reform the electoral system and the political vacuum, which aggravated the suffering of Iraqis for 14 years."
For his part, Sarhan Meser, secretary of the local committee of the Iraqi Communist Party during his participation in the demonstration, said that "
"All the national masses and the cross-sectarian forces are taking part today in a massive public demonstration in order to topple the unfair electoral law and the St Lego regime, which is a recognition of the Iraqi demands for reform." Mesir said that the new election law was separated by influential political parties to maintain their interests So as to keep corruption and destruction, "stressing that" not accept the current electoral law, which devotes the power of whales of politics and overthrow the national parties and democracy, which seeks to reform the political process.
In Babel, the civil activist Furat Hussein, told (the range), that "a demonstration started on foot from Freedom Square near the province to the Electoral Commission building on the street forty, denouncing the provisions of the provincial councils law and the paragraph of the law of St. Lego, voted by the House of Representatives a few days ago, Unfair law that steals the voices of the people. "
"Thousands of citizens demonstrated at the invitation of Muqtada al-Sadr from Freedom Square in front of the Babil Governorate building to the Office of the Electoral Commission in protest against the ratification by the House of Representatives on the law of the electoral councils and the adoption of the paragraph of St. Lego, which steals the votes of the people. And prohibits the small blocs from getting votes, and demand a fair and fair electoral law. "
"The House of Representatives is still insisting on destroying the country by re-enacting laws recycling cyclone and sectarianism, and we will cry out strongly against the corrupt and say null and void."
The Council of Representatives began to vote on the provincial elections law mid last week, but the node of Kirkuk, which has not witnessed elections for more than 8 years blocked the completion of voting on the paragraphs of the law.
Parliament was due to resume voting on the remaining paragraphs, but the lack of agreement on them postponed the vote again. Among the paragraphs voted by the House of Representatives is Article 12 of the draft, which relates to the distribution of seats and the method of counting votes and
not limited to criticism of the election law at the grassroots level, he considered Vice President Iyad Allawi, in a statement received by (extent), that "contrary to desire The mass popular movement demanding reform is moving some blocks in the House of Representatives. "
Allawi continued, "with great regret to pass an election law that takes into account its interest and reveals its intention to continue the same approach that brought Iraq to what it is." He said "
We have repeatedly warned that any attempt to pass an election law does not guarantee justice and equality for all participating blocs and does not respond to the demands of the mass movement to achieve fair elections. This will mean that the results of these elections will not meet the aspiration of our people and will pave the way for continuing the same approach based on political and sectarian quotas Iraq remains until the moment is suffering and horrors. " the Vice President of the Republic that" the House of Representatives as it bears full responsibility for that , it demands today more than any other time in view of the popular demands for the adoption of the previous election law addresses the gaps and meet the amplitude And put the national interest above party interests and Ketloah. "
He reiterated his position Allawi"
Which refuses to enact an election law in accordance with the interests of the political blocs without any consideration to the national interest, and stresses that insistence on this will result in a distorted political process heading Iraq to a dark tunnel does not know its ends, which means that all options will be open to the national popular forces, including reconsider their position of Participation in those elections and from the political process itself peacefully. " In turn, said the Iraqi Communist Party," we follow with great interest the insistence of the powerful and arrogant forces to pass a law unfair in many of its materials for the elections of provincial councils and districts. "
In a statement received by the (range) The Wen "seeks to monopolize power and perpetuate, and the confiscation of the right of citizens to choose their representatives in those councils, and the closure of the road on the efforts to change the dimensions of the faces of failed and corrupt and accountable, and progress serious steps towards reform , achieving the desired objectives." He said the Iraqi Communist that "
This law, with its exclusionary materials, completely contradicts all the promises made by the powerful forces and their commitment to change and enable young people to take their role, not mind the great challenges that our country is going through. "The Communist Party said that the large blocs" And narrowing the public interest, at a time when the need for the widest national participation in taking responsibility and expanding the decision-making and prevent the recurrence of hegemony and power in government, and the consequent setbacks and defeats. "
In turn, the Secretary-General of the National Right Party Ahmed Masari, Of the parliamentary efforts to amend the paragraph The law of the provincial councils of St. Lego 1.9
The Masari said in a statement received (range) a copy of it, that the next phase requires the emergence of new blocks and blood through which to make the desired change desired by the Iraqi people, and this is not in the presence of the system of St. Lego 1 .



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