Iraq-Sinjar conversion to require the approval of the Government and Parliament





Legal expert, said Tariq Harb, Sinjar, West of Mosul continued to the Federal Government and is not linked to the Kurdistan region, and convert it to a province required the approval of the Cabinet and Parliament.

War, he said in a statement received by each agency in Iraq, that "the President of the Kurdistan region yesterday, need to convert Sinjar to the counties that did not fall within the jurisdiction of the territorial Government or Parliament but within the competence of the federal authorities in Baghdad and local authorities in Nineveh as Sinjar spend federal and not spending linked to the territory".

He said "it [Sinjar] part of Ninawa Governorate, which is linked to the federal authorities in Baghdad and that the law applies to governorates that are not organized in a region no. 12 of 2008 so it differs from the juvenile justice Halabja-turned-Mayor two years ago because Halabja spend regional regional province of Sulaymaniyah to the Kurdistan region, i.e. the creation of the province of Halabja was part of that territory".

He explained that "the conversion of Sinjar to the province requires the approval of the Council of Ministers by preparing and submitting a Bill to Parliament for a vote and approval by majority after quorum at Board 165 deputies before all these actions to be the opinion of the local authority in any province of Nineveh provincial Council and the Governor, where the opinion of the local authority is not binding but has a great role in promoting this proposal and whether that influence in the Council of Ministers or deputies, especially the development of the County Many implications such number of deputy provincial Governor in Parliament and several members of the provincial Council of Nineveh representing clusters known in the provincial Council [Kurdish, Sunni and Shiite] ".

He noted the war "also affect the demographic distribution is currently in the province and has a significant impact on the referendum on the accession of Sinjar to Kurdistan or not in accordance with article 140 of the Constitution, which defined and adopted in the referendum for the province and not the judiciary and this is evident from the words [and ending in a referendum in Kirkuk and other disputed areas] that the majority for a referendum that must be adopted is the majority in Nineveh's Governor as a whole including Sinjar if Sinjar as spend"

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