Parliament extends its term and ends reading of three laws

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[size=52]Parliament extends its term and ends reading of three laws[/size]

[size=45]Baghdad: Al-Sabah/ Muhannad Abdul Wahab
11/27/2024
The House of Representatives voted, during its seventeenth session of its second legislative term yesterday, Tuesday, to extend its legislative term for one month, and while it voted to appoint Halo Mustafa Kaka Reda as Minister of Environment, it completed the first reading of the draft law amending the first federal budget law.
This comes at a time when the parliamentary legal committee confirmed the existence of a package of laws that will be reviewed, which were carried over from previous parliamentary sessions, some of which need legal reformulation to keep pace with societal developments.
A statement by the media department of the House of Representatives, received by “Al-Sabah”, stated that “the session, chaired by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dr. Mahmoud Al-Mashhadani, and attended by 168 representatives, witnessed at its beginning a vote to extend the legislative term for one month, in addition to removing the paragraph of voting on the draft law ratifying the air transport services agreement between the government of Iraq and the government of the Russian Federation from the agenda.
The Council also voted to approve the appointment of "Hello Mustafa Kaka Reda" as Minister of Environment in the current government, and to take the constitutional oath, after approving the addition of the paragraph to the session's agenda.
The statement pointed out that "the Council completed the first reading of the draft law regulating the rights of the victims of Ibn al-Khatib Hospital, the victims of al-Naqa Center, and the victims of the al-Hamdaniya incident, submitted by the Committees of Martyrs, Victims and Political Prisoners, and Health and Environment.
On the other hand, al-Mashhadani noted that the legal contexts related to the Council's exercise of its oversight role by questioning any executive body are ongoing and without defect, stressing that the Council will not take any step that violates the internal regulations of the House of Representatives and the Constitution. During the session, which was chaired by the Vice President of the Council, Shakhwan Abdullah, the Council completed the first reading of the draft law amending the fifth amendment to the Civil Aviation Law No. (148) of 1974, submitted by the Transport and Communications Committee.
The statement of the Media Department indicated that “the Council completed the first reading of the draft law amending the first federal budget law of the Republic of Iraq for the fiscal years (2023, 2024, 2025) No. (13) of 2023 submitted by the Finance Committee, in order to appoint a specialized international technical advisory body to work on calculating the fair estimated costs of producing and transporting oil produced in the Kurdistan Region, for each field separately, preserving national wealth and enhancing actual federal revenues, and enabling the State Oil Marketing Company (SOMO) to make optimal use of export outlets and diversify them, after which it was decided to adjourn the session. In a related context, a member of the Parliamentary Legal Committee, Ahmed Fawaz Al-Watifi, stated that “after extending the legislative term, there is a package of laws that are supposed to be discussed in Parliament and included in the agenda, and there are many of these laws that need consensus to discuss and pass them.”
He added that “the most important of these laws are; The general amnesty law, as well as the cancellation of the decisions of the dissolved Revolutionary Command Council, and the Personal Status Law, in addition to several other important laws that are supposed to be completed during this parliamentary session,” explaining that “the new presidency of the parliament stressed the importance of expediting the discussion and drafting of these laws and proceeding with voting on them.”
Al-Watifi continued, “The current parliamentary session played a major role in legislating many important laws carried over from previous sessions, which were the subject of controversy. Some of them were approved and the rest will be included in the agenda, most notably the agricultural land rental law, which was carried over from previous parliamentary sessions and was approved in the current legislative session this year.”[/size]
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