The differences of blocks impede the move to approve the amendment of the law of the provinces

The differences of blocks impede the move to approve the amendment of the law of the provinces


Parliamentary committees recognize a formal error in the House of Representatives that led to the overlap of legislative work. The committees considered the introduction of the laws of provincial and provincial elections not organized in a region simultaneously, which hindered the approval of the two legislatures. The most prominent differences between the Legal Committee and the provinces and provinces on the mechanism to reduce the number of members of provincial councils, and the fate of the councils of the regions.
The House of Representatives voted recently on one article of the provincial law and abolished the district councils, which was considered by the Committee of Regions must be avoided.
"The third amendment to the law of governorates not organized in the region No. (21) for the year 2008, includes twelve articles proposed by the government," pointing out that "there are objections to these articles of Some parliamentary committees. "
The second amendment to the provincial law, voted by the House of Representatives at its previous session, grants local governments the powers of 9 ministries of service, with the disposal of a large part of the revenues of its border ports, and grant oil provinces $ 5 for each barrel extracted from them.
Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, when he took office at the end of 2014, decided to withdraw the appeal filed by Maliki's government by Law No. 21. He called on ministries and local governments to submit their proposals for inclusion in the second amendment to the law. The government of Abadi later returned to freeze the law of the provinces until the House passed the amended version.
"The most important of these amendments, which were included by the government in the new amendment, is the abolition of district councils and the reduction of the members of the provincial councils." He pointed out that "the House of Representatives with the abolition of the article on the number of members of the provincial councils that were present in the provincial elections law in previous sessions."
A member of the Committee of Regions that "the Presidency of the Council of Representatives will hold a joint meeting with each of the legal committees and regions and provinces to discuss the most important points and problems of disagreement between the two committees."
The House of Representatives has introduced the third amendment to the law of the provinces to vote, but was unable to pass only one article, and forwarded the adoption of other articles to a later meeting until the consensus on some points of contention. The dispute between the two legal committees and parliamentary regions on the mechanism of reducing the number of members of provincial councils.
The Kurdish MP that "the Committee of Regions want to calculate one seat per 100 thousand people provided that the number is not less than 10 members and not more than 50 members." He considered that "this criterion achieves justice for all citizens."
The parliamentary legal committee proposes to determine the number of members of the provincial councils with 11 people in the provinces with a population of more than half a million people, adding one member for every 250 thousand people.
"The government project distinguishes between the general managers who are appointed centrally and those who are appointed by the local governments, based on the fact that each director-general receives his salary from the budget of the province, it is under the control of the governor, while the salary of the federal government Vikon Assigned centrally. " The Kurdish MP that "the Committee of Regions and provinces seeking to re-vote on the first article, which was voted previously, which abolished the district councils." He added that the committee "seeks to retain these councils to give them a supervisory role on managers of the regions."
The member of the Committee of the Regions of another obstacle facing the passage of the third amendment to the law of the provinces, is the government to reduce the rate of petrodollar from five dollars per barrel of oil extracted and refined to 5%, "noting that" the amendment of the government faces significant reservations by Parliament. "
And recognizes the MP Soran Ismail, "a mistake by the Presidency after the inclusion of the provincial elections law with the third amendment to the law of provincial councils," pointing to "the existence of common points in the law, including the number of members of the provincial councils." "Law No. 21 is supposed to introduce the election law in order to decide on some of the matters and formalities of local governments," he said.
In the same context, Ahmed al-Badiri, a member of the Committee of Regions and Governorates, attributed the repeated postponements to the provincial law to some controversial paragraphs in provincial law and provincial council elections. "The most important point of contention with the parliamentary law is our endeavor to maintain the councils of the regions and not to abolish them," he said. Noting that "the parliament voted to abolish the district councils in the first article of the third amendment to Law No. 21."


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