The Commission is required to hold parliament elections end next April

The Commission is required to hold parliament elections end next April

07-10-2013 | (Voice of Iraq)



Range Press / Baghdad

The Board of Representatives on Monday, forcing the Election Commission to hold elections parliamentary history defined the end of next April, as recommended updating the voter register and instruct the government, regardless of financial dues to the Commission, stressed the need to vote on the election law on October 30 current maximum or refer to the law of elections 2009 in case of failure of the vote on the law.

A source in the information department of the parliament said in an interview to (range Press), "The House of Representatives voted during its meeting of 26 of the first legislative term of the legislative year fourth, which was held today, the decision required the Electoral Commission for elections to hold parliamentary elections on the 30th of April 2014" .

The source, who asked not to be named, said "Parliament recommended updating the Commission to register voters and instruct the government regardless of all dues of Finance," noting that "the Presidency of the Council of Representatives confirmed the vote on the election law on 30 October 2013 a maximum or refer to the Electoral Act 2005 in the case of failure of the vote on the current electoral law raised in the agenda of the meeting, to be adopted at the next election. "

The Iraqi Council of Representatives held today, its the 26 of the first legislative term for the fourth year legislative headed by Osama Najafi and the presence of 229 deputies, to vote on the proposed law to amend the law on parliamentary elections.

And accused the Liberal block of the Sadrist movement accused on Monday, and national coalitions of Kurdistan and the Iraqi List of trying to "monopolize" seats in parliament, while confirming that those blocks do not want to hold elections on schedule, ruled out the vote on the law of parliamentary elections.

He ruled out the leader of the Kurdistan Alliance, Mahmoud Othman, on Monday, the adoption of the Law of the parliamentary elections during a session of the House of Representatives to be held today, and warned passed without the approval of the Kurdistan Alliance, and while stressing that "the marginalization of the Kurds would harm the political process," expressed their willingness to vote on the law amended .

The head of the Kurdistan region, Massoud Barzani, a student, on Sunday, (October 6, 2013), the adoption of a system of "constituency" one in the next parliamentary elections, and stressed that the people of the region "subjected to injustice in the 2010 elections," While he stressed that the province " will not pay for the low participation for the rest of the components, "threatened" not to participate in the elections in the event of failure to adopt a single constituency system. "

He urged the UN envoy to Iraq, Nikolay Mladenov, on Sunday, (October 6, 2013), the political parties all to reach a "compromise and appropriate" to the draft electoral law ", returned to the involvement of the components of society are all a" crucial "to the parliamentary elections the timing nor the specific constitutional .

The accused MP from Kirkuk's Arabs Omar al-Jubouri, on Sunday (October 6, 2013), the Kurdistan Alliance to "exploit" divisive political blocs on the electoral law "to stir up" articles on Kirkuk, called the Presidency of the Council of Representatives to end the work as "a game harmonic" As stressed that the Iraqi people will not allow bargaining on Kirkuk and put it on the table of political deals and bargains, carry the historic responsibility of each of "Etwati on Iraqi Kirkuk."

The State of Law coalition led by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki predicted, the first on Saturday, (October 5, 2013), migrate to vote on the election law until after the holiday of Eid al-Adha next, while likely boycott by some political blocs next meeting of the Council of Representatives, confirmed his refusal to extend the work of the Council, stressing the "inevitability" of the legislative elections on schedule.

And raised the Presidency of the Council of Representatives of Iraq, in the (third from October 2013), the meeting of the 25 of the first legislative term of the legislative year the fourth, to Monday, (October 7, 2013), after undertaking the Kurdistan Alliance to vote on the proposed law to amend the law on parliamentary elections.

The decision of the House of Representatives Muhammad Al-Khalidi attributed, Thursday (third from October 2013), the reasons for postponing the vote on the election law to "incompatibility" the political blocs on some points of contention in the law, noting that those points will be in the form of multiple options are supported which option gets the highest percentage of the vote.

And warned the National Dialogue Front, led by Deputy Prime Minister Saleh al-Mutlaq, on Tuesday (the first of September 2013), of trying some of the blocks "to postpone the adoption of the electoral law in order to postpone the elections," and called on religious references to "pressure on the political forces to approve the law," In while stressed the need for "the prohibition of dual nationality to stand for election," demanded "a vote of the public and private sectors on the same day to ensure the integrity of the elections."

This means closed list system that provides political entity list Bmarchah and after ratification by the UNHCR and the end of the deadline for electoral lists and the coalition can not be political entity to change the order of names on the list and announce the winners of the candidates on the list according to the number of votes obtained by the entity and in numerical order contained down menu.

Specialists believe that the ordinary voter to vote for the electoral list he does not know the members of this list, because this is the electoral system does not allow voters to choose no other name from the list pursuant to the free choice (open menu).

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