Election Law: Agreement on the circle 18 and 30 compensatory seats .. And the majority resolved coun

Election Law: Agreement on the circle 18 and 30 compensatory seats .. And the majority resolved counting




Baghdad / Iyad al-Tamimi

Came out a lengthy meeting of the Legal Committee of parliamentary participation of Parliament Speaker Osama Najafi, and the presence of Representative UN in the country, agreeing to take place the next legislative elections in accordance with 18 constituencies, and the number of compensatory seats 30 is divided equally between the quota of minorities, and the leaders of the blocks for the nomination of they want, on the to settle a majority vote counting method.
And while confirming the Kurdistan Alliance bloc to accept the rest of the blocks its proposal that the distribution of compensatory seats on the basis of voter turnout on the ballot in each province, which will ensure not lost the right to the Kurdistan region, which will be the participation rate higher than the rest of the provinces, said a member of the Legal Committee that the proposals malfunction yesterday to vote on the law, first neglecting the voices of political entities that do not get the votes of less than 150 thousand, which will hurt small blocks, and the second increase of 15 parliament seats to the total number is 340 seats.



The MP for the National Alliance Jawad's Albzona "term" that "the political blocs agreed yesterday evening on most of the points of contention regarding the amendments to the law of the forthcoming legislative elections, noting that the political blocs coincided on these amendments.



He Albzona that "the most prominent changes were making Iraq 18 circle to make it a compensatory seats 30 seats split 15 of them to the quota of minorities, and 15 of the leaders of the blocks to compensate for their seats," explaining that "the most prominent points, which was a bone of contention is the type of method of calculating the votes," pointing to the "The groups had agreed to the inclusion of proposals blocks that get rid of Saint Lego rate, and Hundt Saint Lego proposed to vote and who gets the majority will be relied upon."



A member of the parliamentary legal committee Mohsen al-Sadoun "long" that coincided blocs on some controversial paragraphs, noting that "the National Alliance approved the proposal of the Kurdistan Alliance compensatory seats, a substitute to make Iraq a single constituency.
He said al-Sadoun, a deputy head of the Kurdistan Alliance bloc that "the proposed compensatory seats, which تبنيناه demanded that the adoption of the distribution of seats based on the turnout of the voters and not just on the basis of the winners, in order to guarantee some seats in particular, and we are confident that the percentage of voter participation in the Kurdistan region will be the Top compared to other governorates, demanding the government solve the problem of the reluctance of voters in the rest of the provinces, and to provide an appropriate environment for them on polling day. "



He explained Sadoun said "rival blocs trying to ensure its survival in power and we are not concerned so that our seats semi-settled and set out through the last election, and for the Kurdistan 60 seats or more will not be able to form a government, but the National Alliance is trying to ensure the largest possible number of seats to form the next government.
But al-Sadoun said differences remain on some of the proposals, and said that even agreements that emerged from the blocks are preliminary and are not conclusive, in addition to the presence of some of the proposals that will be negotiated within a few days in preparation for the adoption of the electoral law at the earliest.



The said the other member in the Legal Committee MP Abdul Rahman Alloizi "long" yesterday that "blocs failed to pass the law yesterday, despite the existence of the possibility for approval, but appeared points Khalavitan first relates threshold election, the second increase of the seats in parliament 15 seats for minorities to correct number members of parliament, 340 deputies. "
He Alloizi in a statement to the "long" yesterday that some political entities large stipulated negligence votes of any political entity that does not get less than 150 thousand votes, and considering this figure threshold of a national order to avoid the loss of votes, which differs from the denominator of the electoral law requires that achieved by each deputy .



He stressed that "the proposed Tmizaaly considering that there are deputies will investigate the price of the seat, but they are deprived of the lack of representation of their national threshold list, likely to be the subject of law stabbed in the case was about the compatibility of this paragraph by small blocs and independent lists.


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