Congress to expedite the enactment of the Federation Council

Confirmed that the points of contention where technical
BAGHDAD - Muhannad Abdul Wahab
Called on Congress to expedite the enactment of the Federation Council, which enemy Room legislative second after the House of Representatives and the boundary to pass laws and their application and the guarantor President for Human provinces.and Article 65 of the Constitution stipulates that "is created Legislative Council -called (the Federation Council) comprising representatives of the regions and governorates that are not organized in a region, and organizes its composition, terms of membership and terms of reference, and everything related to it, the law enacted by two thirds of the members of the House of Representatives. " The Council has wide powers equivalent to the powers of parliament to approve or veto laws and representation of all the provinces and territories and the executive and legislative powers.
National Alliance MP Ihsan al-Awadi, saw the enactment of the Federation Council establishes the composition of the Legislative Council motherland in Iraq synonymous with the House of Representatives. said al-Awadi said in an interview for "Center Brief for the Iraqi Media Network," that "pass laws Federation Council The Federal Court and the Judicial Council contribute to building a nickname Iraqi general. "He MP for the hope that is measures of this law quickly to guarantee the continuation of the laws and the distribution of wealth properly among all the provinces, adding that the Federation Council has the power to veto laws and this is what missing from the House of Representatives, which prescribed laws may collide with the reality of implementation with the cabinet. said Deputy to the presence of some of the points of contention on ways to elect the members of the Council and its composition, believing that while if the communication and dialogue between the political blocs on the points of disagreement will arrive viable solutions. pointed Awadi that the law has read the first reading and will be read the second reading after the consensus being a sensitive topic and important and needs to be consensus among the political blocs, pointing out that the law did not refuse, but was called before passed in the House of Representatives, noting that the disagreement president between the blocks on the subject is the number and the method of selecting representatives of the provinces within the Council and this will be subject to discussion and proposals and thus to compatibility. demanded Committee of the Regions and the provinces parliamentary yesterday Presidency of the Council of Representatives to slow down in the second reading of the proposed law on the Federation Council, until the arrival of the bill from the government and its comparison with the proposal of the Legal Committee of the Parliament. was House Speaker Osama Najafi confirmed, that the law of the Federation Council in connection with the second reading, as pointed out the United Nations to the Federation Council will help the House of Representatives to accomplish tasks in a smooth, while considered, that the Federal Council and the Council senior policy themes are different, stressed the necessity of activating the Federal Council during the current parliamentary. For his part, MP Mahmoud Hassan member of the Legal Committee to comply with the decision of the Federal Supreme Court, which came a new mechanism for the bill as relates to the powers of the three.
said MP for "Center Brief for the Iraqi Media Network," that after the first reading of the draft law has been challenged in court Federal Supreme Court, but the Presidency of the parliament and put it on the agenda of today's meeting. said Hassan need to meet the law all the conditions stipulated in the decision of the Federal Supreme Court on the law, noting that the descendants of the law because it regards Authority seconds in addition to the House of Representatives mission is safeguarding the interests of provinces and monitor the implementation of laws. ruled Hassan to read the law a second reading because the project submitted is not consistent with the conditions that came by a decision the Federal Supreme Court, pointing out that the task of the law is that the functions of the purpose of formation laws approval of the constitution in addition to carrying out certain tasks relating to the relationship of the center governorates regular or irregular province.
, in turn, said the National Alliance MP Abbas al-Bayati, the importance of the Law Council of the Union promise founder of the room the second legislative called in some countries, "the Senate" or "Senate." Bayati said in an interview for "Center Brief for the Iraqi Media Network, "" The importance of this Council comes from its review of laws that prescribed by the parliament, "he said, adding that in the past was the President of the Republic has the power to veto-wielding laws but now it has been stripped of this right and therefore there should be a Council exercised this role and pass laws that had received from the House of Representatives.
between MP said the law need to read again because of some remarks upon, as it must focus on the philosophy of its founding and choose its members that it was on the basis of competence and experience or on the basis that they represent the provinces and regions.
expressed Bayati hoped that represents Council all the components as well as the representation of the provinces because it would be a third of the current parliament any limits of 130 members so you do not need to allocate 10 or 15 percent of its original size to represent components, confirming the absence of obstacles stand in the adoption of the law because it is less laws, unlike the fact that the dispute technically only attributing the lack of controversy that all blocs will repeat itself in the new council.

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