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    Report: Sadrists resort to the position of Najaf to refuse to amend the election law

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    Report: Sadrists resort to the position of Najaf to refuse to amend the election law Empty Report: Sadrists resort to the position of Najaf to refuse to amend the election law

    Post by Rocky Sun 26 Feb 2023, 6:07 am

    [size=30]Report: Sadrists resort to the position of Najaf to refuse to amend the election law
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    Baghdad - Nas   
    While most of the influential forces in parliament, led by the Coordinating Framework, seek to make a fundamental change to the election law and return it to the formula of the old St. Lego law, the Sadrist movement led by Muqtada al-Sadr and most of the civil and secular forces and small parties are struggling on the front of maintaining the current law that has been implemented. According to it, the parliamentary elections will be held in its last session in October 2021.  
      
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    The adoption of the multiple constituency system led to the rise of the largest winning candidates within one constituency to Parliament, while this was not required by the St. Lego Law, which was adopted in most of the previous sessions, and in light of it, it was possible for the biggest loser to obtain a parliamentary seat, given that his coalition or party list won the highest number of votes. Within one constituency, usually a governorate, such as Baghdad or others. And the last formula that allows the losers to win is the essential point that was and still is objectionable to independent personalities and small parties, because it allows the big powers to swallow most of the votes. As for the Sadrists, they want to maintain the multi-constituency law by virtue of the great discipline that characterizes sympathizers and loyalists to the movement, and they actually achieved victory in the highest parliamentary seats in the last elections (72 seats), before Muqtada al-Sadr decided to withdraw his deputies in August 2022.  
      
    Saint-Lego is a method invented in 1912 by the French mathematician Andre Saint-Lego. The purpose of this formula is to distribute votes to electoral seats in multi-seat constituencies in a more equitable manner. However, the Iraqi experience sparked controversy after using this formula for the first time in the 2014 parliamentary elections, and one of its results was that small lists won limited seats, which sparked discontent, especially on the part of independents and civil forces.  
      
    The campaign of objections to amending the law launched by the Sadrists and others seems to have found support for it in a sermon by the representative of the Najaf religious authority, Sheikh Abd al-Mahdi al-Karbalai years ago, when he said in one of his speeches: “We say and clarify the opinion of the religious authority and we say: No to the closed-list system, no to the one-electoral district system This is a serious issue, and we do not want to repeat the failed experience in the closed list, and we also say: No to the one district.  
      
    In the context of the Sadrist positions, the resigned deputy speaker of Parliament and a leader in the Sadrist movement, Hakim al-Zamili, announced his objection to amending the election law. Al-Zamili posted on Twitter a video clip of the representative of the religious authority, Abd al-Mahdi al-Karbalai, and wrote on it: "No to the closed list, not to the one circle."  
      
    In addition to reminding Al-Zamili of the sermon of Najaf’s authority, many activists re-published the sermon on various social media sites yesterday, and the official spokesman for the “consciousness” movement, Hamid Al-Sayed, said, “The efforts of the framework forces and their allies to bypass the will of Najaf and its reference by returning to St. Lego, came As a result of its failure to preserve its Shiite incubator.  
      
    In addition to objecting to the formula of the law in the light of which the electoral process takes place, quite a few parties object to the new amendment going to combine general parliamentary elections and local elections in one law and formula.  
      
    Representative Haider Al-Mutairi announced, the day before yesterday, that he had collected more than 70 parliamentary signatures to withdraw the proposal to amend the local elections law. He said during a press conference: «We strongly object to the amendments to the provincial elections law, which are not consistent with the aspirations of the Iraqi people seeking change. The proposal for the provincial elections law enshrines the continuity and survival of power in the hands of one party over the other, and circumvents the votes of Iraqi voters.  
      
    In what appears to be an attempt to reduce pressure on Parliament, which is discussing the version of the new amendment, the Regions Committee in Parliament believes that the Provincial Councils Law proposal is a starting point for its discussion.  
      
    Committee member Muhammad al-Shammari said in a press statement, "The provincial councils law, which was read for a first reading, has not started to be amended yet. The committee is still awaiting its effects and the proposed amendments by the deputies, and then making changes until a final version of the law is reached."  
      
    Quoted from "Asharq Al-Awsat"  
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