Mounting calls to change the electoral system and reducing the number of depu

BAGHDAD - Mahmoud Mafraji

It escalated calls and claims in the Iraqi Council of Representatives, to change the electoral system in Iraq, and reducing the number of council members in half in order to reduce state spending and find the perfect political quality more than quantity, which has no benefit.According Taperalnwab. The MP said the National Alliance, Jawad al-Bolani told (Il Giornale), Sunday (February 7, 2016), that "Iraq needs to be reviewed in the current election law that spawned Kthera members of the House of Representatives, as well as in the provincial councils." He added that "Iraq today needs to blocks and members of parliament Two types, as the problem of Iraq is related to the quantity but the quality that can serve the country through the sectors that run through it." He stressed Bolani the need to "reduce the members of the House of Representatives and members of the provincial councils in half in order to achieve the quality as well as reduce the expenses that had exhausted the Iraqi state significantly." 
For his part, called on the Kurdistan Alliance MP Majid Chenkali, to put electoral law in line with the nature of the smaller parties and independents who are able service to the country, calling for the abolition of the quota system as a whole. Chenkali said in a statement (Il Giornale), Sunday (February 7, 2016), "The current election law in line with the major parties, is incompatible with the smaller rival that can not, and on jurisprudence, to reach the center of the Iraqi decision." He added, "The quota system in Iraq that destroyed all levels, therefore, cancel by creating parties and blocks Control and Other oppose, is the only solution to lift the country from the current reality." 
But Chenkali said, he was "not against the big parties, which owns a big role in the political process, but against the quota system, which must be removed in line with the electoral law and the existence and the existence of small parties and personalities. " It is said that the Iraqi election law in line with the approved Iraq's parliamentary system, where it is through election of a president and a prime minister and ministers across the parliament itself, and this makes it imperative for everyone to resort to consensus and quotas between the political blocs in the House of Representatives and within the same political blocs . 
the number of members of the Iraqi Council of Representatives is the 328 deputies representing all Iraqi provinces, including the provinces located within the boundaries of the Kurdistan region.