Governors threatened with dismissal urge not to extend the provincial councils

Governors threatened with dismissal urge not to extend the provincial councils


 Baghdad / Mohammed Sabah

Five governors are trying to evade dismissal by inciting parliamentary blocs to vote to abolish provincial councils in an attempt to circumvent the questioning they have been facing on charges of corruption and mismanagement.


These efforts led to a new division between the blocks of the House of Representatives on the extension of the provincial councils, and those who push for the abolition or freezing of the Parliament to take over the management of the provinces instead of the councils.
The blocs are preparing to start new negotiations in the middle of next week to find a legal formula to solve the problem of constitutional vacuum entered by the provincial councils after the end of its mandate specified four calendar years.
And succeeded in various blocks to break the quorum of the session last Monday in protest against the demands of the abolition of local councils, which led to the adjournment of the meeting to next week.
The member of the Legal Committee Zainab Sahlani, in a statement to (the extent), the split of all the parliamentary blocs between those who want to extend the work of the provincial councils until the elections and those who adopt a freeze or cancellation after the end of its mandate specified by the law and exclusive to the governors to manage the affairs of their provinces.
Article 4 of the Provincial Councils Law No. (21) stipulates that "the term of the electoral cycle of the Councils, four calendar years, begins with the first session and automatically expires after completing four calendar years from the date of ratification of the election results."
Only 8 articles of the provincial elections law remained after the vote on 45 articles. Two articles of the law, relating to the number of seats in the provincial council and the judiciary, were transferred to the third amendment to the provincial law.
The House of Representatives has raised its meeting, last Monday, to the middle of next week after the withdrawal of most of the political forces that oppose the abolition of local councils and the House of Representatives responsibility for supervision and follow-up departments.
Al-Sahlani reveals the existence of five governors whose resignations by the provincial council have become inevitable, prompting them to move on some parliamentary blocs through their access by a number of deputies to abolish the provincial councils and include them in the provincial and district elections law so as to get rid of the interrogations they are pursuing because of the charges against them. Corruption and waste of public money. "
A large number of governors face requests to be questioned by their provincial councils, led by Ninewa governor Nawfal al-Aakoub, governor of Basra Majid al-Nasrawi and Anbar governor Suhaib al-Rawi, who was issued a warrant by the Misdemeanor Court of Rasafa.
The deputy of the Liberal bloc that "
The proposals submitted by the Committee of Regions and the provinces of the draft provincial elections law has been rejected and received due to linguistic and legal errors are terrible, "noting that" the Shiite and Sunni blocs split between those who want to continue the provincial councils, and those who refuse to grant extension to the upcoming elections. " Since the date of the 20th of last April, the local government entered into a constitutional void and legally due to the end of the mandate of the councils as a way out and a legal constitutional vacuum, parliamentary parties propose a resolution of the House of Representatives can manage provincial affairs rather than local councils.
issued a supreme coordinating body B Provinces to local councils , uncles, on 13/6/2017 legitimizes whereby it continues to work until the elections, stressing that the continuation of the work of the provincial councils "does not require a decision by the Council of Ministers or the Council of State."
The document stipulates that "
Based on the inquiries about the powers of the provincial councils to continue the work, we would like to show the following: Provincial councils and districts and districts continue to manage their affairs until the election of new councils as stated in the text of Article (46 / III) of the Law of Election of Provincial Councils and districts and districts No. 36 of the year 2008 as amended and in the case of the postponement of the elections. " confirms committee provincial parliamentary and provincial" this problem will be discussed in the House of Representatives in order to unify positions and ideas about the continuation of the work of the provincial councils until elections or not be continued , as demanded by some blocs. "
adds Chairman of the Committee Ran Ismail Abdullah (range), "there are disagreements within the committee between those who want the extension to these councils and among those who refuse extension of her," wondering "in the event of a freeze or cancel these councils , it runs its business in approving the budget and control governors and local circles?".
The term, revealed the receipt of the parliamentary legal committee, in May last year, a request by 150 deputies to freeze the work of local councils, which will expire its mandate early June, but confirmed the support of the speaker of parliament and heads of blocs to issue a decision to extend the work of provincial councils.
MP Rasul Abu Hasna, member of the Committee of the Regions, that "the proposal contained in Article (46) of the provincial elections law, which provides for the continuation of the work of the provincial councils fell by voting." "There are deputies explained the fall of this article by voting not to extend the work of the provincial councils and freeze."
Abu-Hasna said in a statement to Al-Mada that Article 46 of the provincial elections law contains several proposals that imposes the internal order of the House of Representatives to sub


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