Lawmakers support national government steps to deal with the region

Legal expert confirms that the spread of federal forces in Kirkuk {constitutional}

Parliamentary deputies and figures confirmed their stand with the condition of the executive authority, which calls on the Kurdistan Regional Government to abide by the "national constants" in return for starting a dialogue with them and resolving the crisis that broke out after the insistence on holding a referendum on secession on the twenty-fifth of last September.
The MP for the parliamentary bloc of advocacy Mahdi al-Zubaidi: "The national constants must be adhered to by the region in accordance with the Constitution and laws in force in the state, calling for the abolition of the referendum held by the region and the consequences thereof, in addition to the withdrawal from the disputed areas entered by the Peshmerga after the occupation "Calling" for the provinces of Nineveh and Kirkuk.
"The federal government is supposed to extend its authority over all land, air and airport ports," al-Zubaidi said in an interview with Al-Sabah. He called for accountability for what he described as "separatist" leaders.
Zubaidi said that "the decisions of parliamentary and government must be implemented by the region because it is part of Iraq and it has to submit to the Constitution and federal law."
For his part, said MP from the independent parliamentary bloc Mohammed al-Shammari: The basis of dialogue between the center and the region is the national constants taken as decisions at the level of Parliament, and commissioned by the government after a referendum of the region, which triggered negative reactions regionally and internationally.
Al-Shammari said in an interview for "morning" that "the region deaf ears of the votes that advised him to cancel or postpone the referendum and struck by the wall and went solo to take a decision contrary to the Constitution and the will of all countries," noting that "the federal government alerted the advocates of secession on more than one occasion and a message Not to proceed with such a decision that threatens the unity of Iraq, which was one of the most important principles written by the Constitution, and the Kurds believed in the people and leaders and were the drafters of the Constitution and therefore, after they went solo decision to want to impose the will of the reality on the government and the world, Can never be dealt with " .
Al-Shammari called on the executive authority to "abide by what it announced not to dialogue with the region until after the cancellation of the referendum and its consequences and any consequences that result from it," stressing "the need to return the territory to the central authority and subject to its laws under the powers approved by the Constitution being part of Iraq."
He urged al-Shammari not to repeat the previous mistakes in dealing with the region and to overlook the excesses and violations in exchange for agreements and deals, calling for the completion of the policy of courtesies and compromises that have threatened the unity of Iraq.
In turn, the legal expert Tariq Harb said that what the government is taking at the moment is less than the Constitution.
He explained to the "morning" that "the presence of the forces of the province outside the places specified by the Constitution in Article 143 of it is an explicit violation as Article 58 / A of the Law of the State Administration of Iraq areas under the authority of the Peshmerga on 19/3/2003 before the entry of coalition forces to Iraq , But we see the presence of those forces in the territory of an area greater than the territory of the territory, "noting that the forces of the territory in their control of these territories act as" heir to Daash. "
He added that "Kirkuk, with all its causes, aspects and villages, belongs to the federal government and the presence of the Peshmerga and the staff of the region in these places violates the Constitution. The presence of the staff of the region south of Arbil and the south of the city of Qosh is contrary to the provisions of the Constitution as long as the presence of the province ends in this city." The land by the federal forces of the army and police and popular mobilization and the fight against terrorism came in implementation of the provisions of the Constitution, especially what is stated in Article (143) clear that determines the presence of the territory in terms of land does not require the provision of this article to interpretation or interpretation.

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