Long-Presse / Baghdad
Legal Parliamentary Committee began creating a draft of the Federal Court Act in order to be submitted to a vote at the earliest session, while I went back to law legislation constitutes a "real start" to reform the judiciary, the court accused of issuing decisions "unconstitutional", and to allow the former prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, to intervene in affairs and the appointment of judges.
In this context, revealed the mass of the Iraqi parliamentary powers Union, a claim of Najaf, a reference to the President of the House of Representatives / Saleem al-Jubouri, the need to "maintain the independence of the judiciary", and promised a major Sunni blocs, that "judicial corruption and interference in his work, behind nearly 100 thousand prisoners in state prisons ".
She stressed the national document, under which formed the Government of Haider al-Abadi, to ensure the independence of the judiciary, and to enable the legislature to take its oversight role during the period of three months, with the achievement of a balanced representation of the components of the public jobs through legislation of the General Authority to ensure the balance and the formation of the Federal Service Board Act.
And consider the political blocs to the judiciary as one of the challenges facing the reform adopted by the Government of Abadi path, pursuing the presidency as the judiciary charges of "complicity" with the former head of the government, and prosecution of political figures from the "opponents of the owners."
He says the former minister and current member of the Legal Committee of the Parliamentary, Ali Yousef Shukri, said in an interview to the newspaper (range), "The reform of the judicial institution needs to approve the Federal Court Act, which regulates the work of the judiciary and live up to its level," and suggests that "the Legal Committee began on Sunday (16 November 2014 from the current), a project that studied law in order to set up and configured in order to put to the vote in the House of Representatives. "
He spoke Shukri, a member of the Liberal bloc and former planning minister, for "a significant political pressure exerted on the judiciary as well as terrorist threats that have affected the judicial institution's performance in the previous time," and shows that "the completion of the Federal Court Act Christsn judiciary fully guarantees freedom of issuance decisions ".
The Iraqi Council of Representatives, has finished reading the law in federal court, (19th of August), in the hope that the legal committee to include observations of the political blocs and submitted for the second reading.
In turn, says the other member of the Parliamentary Legal Committee, Secretary Baker, in an interview with the newspaper (range), "The institution of judicial reform process linked to change some of the political leaders who were to dominate the judiciary."
Baker adds, "The previous government was interfering in the affairs of the judiciary, and even in the appointment of judges," and asserts that "the fear of the political threats forced some judges to bow to pressure and non-observance of the independence of the judiciary."
And sees the Kurdish MP, that "the next stage requires the presence of the judges is politicized to the point or block or party, and provide protection for them to be able to perform their duties to the fullest," the Federal Court accuses b "version unconstitutional decisions, such as to deprive the House of Representatives to propose laws, what repair calls about professional and scientific. "
He continues, a member of the legal committee of parliamentary, that there is "interference in the work of the executive and judicial branches, as is the case in the investigations conducted by the Ministry of Interior, which can not be considered a judicial authority", is that "the reform of the judicial institution is part of a national paper under which the government was formed current. "
To say that the Iraqi Bloc MP for the Union forces, Mohammed Karbouli, in an interview with the newspaper (range), "The religious authority in Najaf, confirmed by receiving the President of the House of Representatives, Saleem al-Jubouri, the need for the independence of the judiciary and tackle corruption in it."
Karbouli adds, that "the legislation of the Federal Court Act is part of the agreed reform with the National Alliance," and shows that "the Sunni component to the suffering of the bitter with the elimination of the evidence the existence of more than one hundred thousand prisoners of his sons."
Article (89) of the Constitution provides that "The federal judiciary consists of the Supreme Judicial Council, the Supreme Federal Court, the Federal Cassation Court, the Prosecutor's Office, the Judiciary oversight, and other federal courts that are regulated in accordance with the law."
Meanwhile, the union called on the Iraqi forces, the Prime Minister, Haider al-Abadi, and leaders of political blocs, because take it upon themselves to application and document the terms of the political agreement, which is the originally specified time ceilings.
The leader of the Union, Haidar al-Mulla, during a press conference held in the House of Representatives, today, attended by newspaper (range), said that the "government has to do a package of reforms, including legislation to the General Amnesty Law and the abolition of the accountability and justice and legislation of the Federal Court Act and the reform of the judiciary."
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