Iraqi parliament is preparing for a decisive round about important laws pending

Iraqi parliament is preparing for a decisive round about important laws pending

24-06-2013
Baghdad: Hamza Mustafa

Preparing the Iraqi parliament during the current session of the new legislative term, which began the middle of this month for a crucial round of political debate on the adoption of a series of important laws and pending before the end of the current session of Parliament, which ends in March next year.

At the time being the debate now about the compatibility to the inclusion of a set of laws across what is known as «Basketball per» for a vote, a law criminalizing the Baath and amendments accountability, justice and the general amnesty, there is a tendency to discuss other laws, including the Law of the demarcation of the administrative border of the provinces.

In this context, called the First Deputy Speaker of Parliament Qusay al-Suhail Committees of provinces and legal discussion of the draft law administrative demarcation of the border of the provinces with the Presidency of the parliament. Suhail said in a statement yesterday that he presided over a meeting of the heads and representatives of parliamentary blocs to discuss a number of laws, indicating that «the meeting discussed the draft law on the demarcation of the border of the provinces and administrative infrastructure bill.

According to the statement, demanded Suhail Committee of the Regions and governorates not organized in a region and the Legal Committee to hold a joint meeting with the Presidency of the Council of Representatives to discuss the draft law on the demarcation of the administrative border of the provinces, pointing out that «also called on the heads of blocs to exert more efforts to reach consensus on a number of laws the task before the vote.

For his part, the President of the Kurdistan Alliance bloc in the Iraqi Parliament, Dr. Fuad Masum, told «Middle East», that «there is a tendency for the adoption of important laws, and must be approved before the end of the current parliamentary session, such as the law of the Federation Council and the law of the Federal Court and the amendment of the law Parliament elections and the law of parties, in addition to the law banning the Baath Party and the dissolved entities.

And about whether the atmosphere ripe now to pass these laws, Masum said that «the atmosphere is now generally positive, and there is a planned visit by Massoud Barzani, president of Kurdistan, to Baghdad, and interviews to be conducted by Barzani will be comprehensive with all forces and political parties», adding that «the issue of the inclusion of these laws within one basket or not subject بالتوافقات of the political.

Iraqi President Jalal Talabani gave in October (October 2011) a bill to the Parliament for re-demarcation of the administrative border of the provinces covered by Article 140 of the Constitution to what it was before the change. The proposal provides Talabani to cancel all decrees of the former regime on the administrative border of the cities and towns and return to normal, ie, before 1968, the year in which the Baath Party came to power in Iraq.

If it were law enforcement, many of the provinces covered by the law will lose large tracts large territory in particular, Salahuddin province, which did not exist before 1968 and formed the decision of the regime of Saddam Hussein early seventies of the last century, after the annexation of some districts and areas to the provinces of Baghdad, Kirkuk.

And whether it was possible the adoption of a series of important laws in the coming months, after that remained a matter of dispute for years, said the appearance of al-Janabi, a member of parliament from the Iraqi List, said that «Unfortunately, the agendas of Foreign Affairs entered into everything in Iraq, to ​​the extent that it has become it is hoped to reach an agreement without having to be these agendas role in some way. Janabi said that «things if left but the Iraqis to agree on everything, because there are no real differences as far as there are agendas managed to entrench itself in many important joints in the political process.

The member of parliament from the Sadrist movement, Mohammad Reza Khafaji, it was considered that «some parties, especially the ruling party (in reference to the Dawa Party, led by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki), does not rebound, but in light of the crises and instability, including that these things can create a stable politically in which you can open all the files, it is not possible for these parties to make the situation stabilizes towards the legislation of laws and provide necessary services to the citizens, which is still waiting ten years ago.

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NOw that it appears as though they will have the freedom to adopt many laws, I am sure they will be very busy.