Legal expert: reducing the number of Deputies does not need to amend the Constitution


2016/10/23 10:26


[In Baghdad]

A legal expert said, to reduce the number of House members does not require an amendment to the Constitution. "

Tariq pointed out in a statement received war all Iraq [where] a copy thereof, to submit a draft amendment to the Constitution on Saturday with reducing the number of members of Parliament since the issue does not require a constitutional amendment, especially since the Constitution of rigid constitutions which requires several conditions for modification as specified in article [142] and article [126] and the first review of the provisions of paragraph I of article [49] of the Constitution which is a constitutional basis for determining the number of members of Parliament any new must read this Paragraph of this article, where salvation of modification and complex procedures which reduce the number of Parliament members to less than half. "

The one who reads this article will find they first identified two constitutional number of Parliament members and other number of seats and the number of members has been set wrong reading this article so that American experts and United Nations experts called electoral experts in our country office in 2006 elections depended on the number of seats and the number of members, the number of seats as stipulated in that article per hundred thousand inhabitants, seat of the souls of Iraq while the number of members in the article didn't specify.

"War" as the condition decision percent thousand inhabitants is not due to the number of members but due to the number of seats there are concrete benches and a number of members of Parliament is not specified, the number of members who set them that article never came and General and comprehensive unlike seats that had a special restricted and fragmented with many hundred thousand people had so many members at the first session of the 275-member as many souls Iraq 27 million and a half and divide that number on one hundred thousand is equal to 275.

"You missed the UNHCR and its experts and legal Committee in the House of representatives when it adopted several hundred thousand members of the House were 328 deputies as to Iraq's population of more than 32 million and if we apply this bug in the next election as Iraq's population now 37 million, it means that the number of members of Parliament would be more than 370 deputies and this is the error that resulted in inflated the number of members of Parliament."

"The time has come to turn on interpretation and reject this interpretation mistake and return to the first paragraph of article [49] incorrect reading and note how to differentiate between a number of members and the number of seats so we reach the highest reform and codification and reduction in the number of members of Parliament if we adopt any number of voters who went to the ballot box and set their representatives and avoids adopting many souls of Iraq as it did previously and that has led to a parliamentary member in inflation."

He stressed a war on "not to adopt a number of voters because some voters do not go to the polls and the adoption of Iraq's population or the number of electors of an electoral fraud and falsification of the election will take a vote at the ballot box and we'll get a real result when counting number of votes just for example practically in past elections elections of 2014 where the population was more than 32 million population had been adopted, the number of members of Parliament 328 deputies and no voters were at the age of majority and has the franchise more 20 million and if we adopted the electorate says some [ignorant] so that the number of members of Parliament will be more than 200 members, the number of voters in previous elections over 12 million adopt this real number which proved to vote means that many members of Parliament would be more than 120 members of the few. "

Legal expert explained, "If the upcoming elections which will go to the polls and vote by 15 million voters, the number of members of Parliament will have 150 deputies only this explanation and read compatible with article constitutional and correspond to the calls of reform to reduce the number of Parliament members and correspond to rejection and experience of United Nations representatives and other employees of foreign experts and members of the Committee for the 2006 Commission adopted this rule and inform Parliament and legal Committee adopt correct and avoids this error avoid Complicated amendment procedures. "

The speaker was Selim Jabouri, forwarded in Saturday's Parliament session, the Special Representative proposed a reduction in the number of members of Parliament to the Parliamentary Committee on constitutional amendments.

Article 49/I of the Constitution: the House consists of a number of members by one seat per hundred thousand inhabitants of the souls of Iraq representing the whole Iraqi people, elected by direct secret public ballot, and shall represent the other components of the people. "


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