Parliament without legislation since the withdrawal of the Sadrists and is preparing to enter a new

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[size=52]Parliament without legislation since the withdrawal of the Sadrists and is preparing to enter a new recess[/size]

[size=45]Baghdad / Firas Adnan[/size]
[size=45]Parliament is currently preoccupied with deciding the presidencies of its committees before going to a new legislative recess on the ninth of next month, while it is indicated that no law has been enacted since the withdrawal of the Sadrist bloc in the middle of this year.[/size]
[size=45]Parliament had suspended its work for about three months as a result of the storming of its building by Sadrist demonstrators, before it held its sessions again at the end of last September, while most of the Sadrist seats went to substitutes from the coordination framework.[/size]
[size=45]“Parliament had extended its legislative term for a month, and this period is nearing its end, and it is not permissible, according to the constitution, to repeat the extension again,” said Thaer Makhaif, in an interview with Al-Mada.[/size]
[size=45]He added, "The legislative recess will begin on the ninth of December, and will continue until the same day of the following month, after which Parliament will resume its work." He pointed out, "There are laws prepared by the parliamentary committees, some of which have passed the stage of the first reading and the other passed the second reading, and we are working to submit them to a vote."[/size]
[size=45]And Makhaif stressed, "The committees will continue to perform their work during the legislative recess in order to end discussions on laws and draft them so that they are ready to be presented to Parliament when its sessions resume."[/size]
[size=45]Regarding the reason why no law has been legislated since the Sadrist movement withdrew from Parliament, Makhaif replied, “Enacting laws is not an easy process, and there are objections to some paragraphs and discussions, in addition to the government withdrawing a number of projects that are not consistent with the ministerial curriculum.”[/size]
[size=45]And he added, “The law, in order to be legislated, must be mature, and therefore we must remember that Parliament was paralyzed for months and was unable to exercise its role in legislation and oversight.” And Makhaif continues, “The real beginning of the parliament came with the formation of the government of Muhammad Shia al-Sudani on the 27th of last October.”[/size]
[size=45]In his view, “the election of committee chairs did not affect the legislative process in parliament, given that the committees are currently managed by the oldest member.”[/size]
[size=45]He concluded, "The coming period will witness an understanding between the political forces that formed the government in order to resolve the committees' file, and this will not be delayed for a longer period."[/size]
[size=45]For his part, Representative Hussein Arab stated, "There is more than one meeting that was held at the headquarters of the First Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Mohsen Al-Mandalawi, regarding the committees." Arab continued, "There is almost agreement on resolving the distribution of presidencies, but some committees need time for discussion and discussion between the political blocs."[/size]
[size=45]He expressed his belief that “the coming days will resolve these committees, especially the important ones such as the Security and Defense Committee, the Finance Committee and the Integrity Committee.”[/size]
[size=45]And Arab finds, "The agreement on the presidencies of these three committees means that we are moving towards completing the rest of the committees in just one day."[/size]
[size=45]And he stressed, “Parliament is determined to completely end this file before the end of the current legislative term, so that we can prepare to receive the budget law.”[/size]
[size=45]And Arab continues, “There are other important laws awaiting parliament that have been included in the ministerial curriculum to be approved within a certain period not exceeding 6 months, such as the oil and gas laws, the Federal Supreme Court, and local and parliamentary elections.”[/size]
[size=45]And he added, “Without the completion of committee presidencies and the status of their work, the process of passing laws in general will be difficult, especially with regard to controversial issues.”[/size]
[size=45]Arab concluded, "Some of the laws are important and related to the political agreement. They need a role for the concerned committees, and not to name their presidencies, because the process of passing them is very difficult."[/size]
[size=45]It is noteworthy that the parliament in its current session succeeded in passing two laws before the withdrawal of the Sadrists, namely the law criminalizing normalization with the Zionist entity and the law of emergency support for food security and development.[/size]
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