Tariq Harb: possible to reduce the number of MPs by half



2016-10-24 02:54:00 | (Voice of Iraq) - Baghdad

He said legal expert Tareq Harb today, it 's possible to reduce the number of MPs by half , according to the Constitution.

He said the war in a statement Sunday, "to reduce the number of deputies does not require a constitutional amendment," adding, " We must reconsider the provisions of the first paragraph of Article 49 of the Constitution , which is the constitutional basis for determining the number of members of parliament , meaning they do not need to be a new reading of this paragraph of this article wherein the salvation of the amendment and the complex procedures and the reduction of the number of members of parliament to less than half. "

He continued , saying that "Article 49 of two things firstly identified the number of members of Parliament and secondly , the number of seats has been determined number of members read wrong with this article , where the UN experts and the Americans , and so - called experts of election in our country and the Electoral Commission in 2006 adopted a number of seats and not the number of members" .

He said the war "The number of seats is also stipulated that article is a seat for every one hundred thousand people , while the number of members in this article did not specify as to the condition set per thousand people is not due to the number of members, but due to the number of seats there are specific seats and there is a number of members the parliament is certain. "

He noted legal expert that " the number of deputies who Orteurthm that article came absolute and general and comprehensive as opposed to the number of seats , which was a special restricted and fragmented several hundred thousand people , so the number of members in the first round 275 members , considering that the number of the souls of Iraq 's 27 million and a half and dividing this number by the hundred The resulting 275 thousand. "

He added, " The Commission and the Legal Committee in the Parliament erred when cent adopted thousand people, was the number of members of the House of Representatives 328 deputies , considering that the number of Iraq 's population of more than 32 million, and if we apply this error in the next election and including the number of Iraq 's population , now 37 million, it It means that the number of members of parliament will be more than 370 deputies and this is wrong and the mistake which resulted in inflated the number of members of parliament. "

He called the war to correct the error and rejected this interpretation of mistake and go back to the text of the first paragraph of Article (49) intercepts a correct reading and note how dispersed between the number of members and the number of seats and thus get to the highest degree of reform, regulation , and the reduction in the number of members of parliament.

He said at the end of his statement, "This interpretation, reading consistent with the text of the constitutional article and comply with calls for reform to reduce the number of members of parliament."

It was to submit a draft amendment to the constitution to the Iraqi Council of Representatives during the Saturday session, includes reducing the number of members of parliament , which currently stands at 328 members.

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