" The Dinar Daily " .......... Tuesday, 14 May 2013
Prosecution calls for the election of a new president of Iraq parliament rejects
14-05-2013 | (Voice of Iraq)
BAGHDAD - AFP
Monday, May 13, 2013
Called for the prosecution in Iraq's parliament speaker to elect a new president of the country, having considered that the position of Jalal Talabani has become a "free" because of his illness, in a move rejected by the Parliamentary Legal Committee and deemed unconstitutional.
Prosecutors Presidency published a statement posted on the Supreme Judicial Council which stated, "demanded the presidency of the Public Prosecution Mr. Speaker to take legal action, due to the passage of the long absence of the President of the Republic from office."
The statement added that this "request came pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (c) of Article 72 of the Constitution, which provides that in the case of vacancy of the office of President of the Republic for any reason a new president is elected to complete the remaining period of the mandate of the President of the Republic."
And published presidency prosecutor letter addressed to the President of Parliament Osama Najafi, and carried the signature of the chief prosecutor Ghazanfar Hamoud Al-Jassem which considered that the "Talabani position became empty due to the passage of a long absence due to illness."
However, the Legal Committee of the Parliament was quick to reject the request.
The Chairman of the Committee Attorney Khaled Huani, in a statement to Agence France-Presse that "the Legal Committee met today and discussed this request," he said, adding that the committee "refused this request because the request is unconstitutional and illegal."
He pointed out that "there is no constitutional text or substance in the law of a public prosecutor gives the head of the prosecution authority to make such a request," and that "Article 72 of the Constitution talks about the vacancy of the President of the Republic and not absence, and now Vice President Khodair al performs tasks the presidency. "
He pointed out that "the House of Representatives is not bound to implement this demand."
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