Parliament blocks agree to postpone the local elections just a few months




07/11/2016 (0:01 pm) - The number of readings: 62 - Issue (3777)




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Parliament blocs agreed to form several committees to follow the laws "controversial," while approaching the semi final agreement on the postponement of local elections for a few months.

This came during a meeting held by the President of the House of Representatives in the presence of his two deputies, and the participation of the heads of blocs.

It is supposed that the other committees follow, endorsed by the meeting, the issues of constitution amendment, and the amendment of the rules of procedure of Parliament, in addition to the new legislation for the election commission.

The meeting reached an agreement on the "separation" of parliamentarians who Gaabathm exceeded the allowable limit, put on the back of the speaker of parliament before the leaders of the blocks.

The al-Jubouri, had said, during the last parliamentary session that preceded the meeting at his home a few hours, the next week will be the date for the declaration of the names of deputies who "Gaabathm exceeded the legal limit."

A parliamentary statement, issued on Saturday, said that "Speaker Salim al-Jubouri, held a meeting at his home, which included the Presidency of the Council of Representatives and the heads of parliamentary blocs."

Attendees discussed during the meeting, according to the statement, a number of important issues, most notably the upcoming laws, which will hopefully be included on the agenda of future meetings agenda to be discussed and voted upon. The statement quoted the heads of parliamentary blocs reaffirmed "the importance of looking at the laws and committees within the House of Representatives, in addition to the importance of resolving the issue of absences of the masters of the members of the House of Representatives and to take legal methods that prevent it."

He said al-Jubouri, according to the statement, "the importance of moving the adoption of the necessary laws and regulations and that the move is an important driver for the desired reform, and we urge everyone to cooperate with us in this section."

Backstage meeting

And the highlight of the house at the home of the speaker of parliament, MP Messenger Abu Hasna, a member of the Dawa party bloc, said that "the meeting came out with an agreement to set up a parliamentary commission headed by First Deputy Chairman of the House of Representatives Hamoudi to receive proposals blocs on the controversial laws broken."

He said Abu Hasna, conducted through contact with him (range) yesterday, said that "the agreement was reached to determine the duration of the timeframe of one week to send its observations on the political blocs broken laws."

The current parliament and inherited a number of phase of the past sessions, which failed political blocs all passed laws, notably the Federal Court Act, the oil and gas.

In turn, revealed that the MP Mohammad, a member of the Badr bloc, said the meeting stressed the "unification of visions about the laws of the People Kalhacd, and the budget, and the counting of the land, and the law of the Electoral Commission, and the law of elections, abandoning nationality acquired."

The latter law had failed to parliament, a few days ago, in a presentation to the vote, despite the completion of the reading for the second time in the previous sessions.

And resort to the tactic of blocs prejudice quorum to abort the adoption of some laws, some of which may depend on only four deputies.

It is expected MP Mohammad fact that contributes to the last meeting, which he described as scarcely, on the speed of resolving these laws, and reducing the differences between the political blocs gap.

And missed the meeting, head of the Kurdistan Democratic parliamentary bloc, also missed the members of the bloc.

Amend the constitution

The political blocs agreed, during the meeting with the Speaker of Parliament, on the formation of other committees on important issues as an amendment to the Constitution.

In this context, MP pointed Messenger Abu Hasna, who had attended the meeting, to "agree on the formation of a committee consisting of 37 members to study the amendments to the Constitution, headed by Salim al-Jubouri." But Abu Hasna confirms that the meeting did not specify a date in time for the end of the Commission's recommendations in writing or development of proposals for amending the Constitution.

He called on the Speaker of Parliament, last July, the parliamentary blocs and personalities to present candidates for the formation of a committee of constitutional amendment. And gave al-Jubouri, then, parliamentary figures a maximum period of one week, to nominate names for the formation of a committee to amend the constitution, to be then display the names for a vote by the Council.

Parliament has been shaped in 2014 a committee of deputies from different blocks, according to a document written by the political agreement such as the Government of Haider al-Abadi, in order to amend the constitution. He stopped the Commission's work on the background of the launch of Prime Minister reforms packages.

The fate of the deputies

Abu Hasna revealed the formation of another committee consists of 27 members, chaired by Second Deputy of Parliament Aram Sheikh Mohammed, for "legislation of new laws for the election commission." He stressed that "there is a near agreement on the postponement of provincial elections to June or July of next year, maximum."

It is supposed that the next local elections take place in April 2017.

He said a member of the block call that "the meeting approved the formation of a committee consisting of 19 members, headed by Hamoudi, to study writing new rules of procedure of the House of Representatives.

He pointed to the MP that the meeting discussed the issue of the deputies, and expected to issue a separation of some absent from the House of Representatives decisions "to make them an example to the rest."

The absence of members of the House of Representatives for the parliamentary sessions at a rate of 100 deputy in a single session. The order for the parliament to achieve a quorum in the presence of 165 deputies out of 328 deputies.

Parliamentarians and confirms that most of their colleagues who are absent from the slice and wealthy merchants who Aatotheron cut 500 thousand dinars a meeting of absence from each session also endorsed by the parliament earlier.

As the House of Representatives in unexcused absences, the Parliament tried to raise the amount of the fine to one million dinars for each session, but failed to do so.

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