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Parliament returns again to amend the constitution problematic
Baghdad Knight Fadel
Confirmed a coalition of state law, the chairman of the parliament called on the political blocs to provide representatives to form a committee to carry out constitutional amendments and put a time limit to this process, as called Kurdistan Alliance to accelerate the formation of a committee to amend Article 140 criticized talk about this national coalition, pointing out that it canceled a constitutional article and legally no justification for re-activated, while the Liberal bloc pointed out that the amendment of the Constitution has become a necessity, after the large number of problems, and multiple violations, and ambiguities resulting from Zlk.oukal MP for the coalition of state law that the Presidency of the Council of Representatives submitted a request to the heads of political blocs to nominate their representatives to the Committee amend the Constitution, noting that the committee would go to amend many provisions of the constitution, including placed to determine the states of the three presidencies, adding that is supposed to provide some of the names of the political blocs to form a committee to reconsider paragraphs Constitution, which need to be modified, pointing out that there are other special committee to Article 140 of the Constitution, pointing to the political blocs are required to submit representatives names to order Parliament to complete the Committees actions are legal and constitutional is noteworthy that Iraq held a referendum on the Iraqi constitution in 2005 and included the Constitution clause requiring modified after four months from the date of the referendum and despite the formation of a committee of the amendments during the session Previous parliamentary not amend the Constitution because of failure to reach agreement on contentious items relating to Article 140 or the powers of the central government and the powers of the region and the center and other items were controversial and required the entry of the Federal Court of Hsmha.mn his part, called on the President of the Kurdistan Alliance bloc in Parliament MP Mohsen al-Sadoun, chairman of the parliament to accelerate the formation of the relevant parliamentary committees to amend the Constitution and Article 140. Sadoun said that the Presidency of the Parliament demanding the speedy formation of important parliamentary committees concerning the constitutionality of things to take its oversight role, as a committee of constitutional amendments mandated by the Constitution and the Commission on the application of Article 140 provided for by the rules of procedure of the parliament, adding that Kurdistan Alliance did not receive until the moment a formal letter from the chairman of the parliament to choose representatives in the committees and in the event of arrival we will work to raise the names as soon as possible. He explained that the committees are built on the basis of consensus and the principle of balance with the participation of representatives of the areas covered by Article 140 in addition to the representatives of the political blocs and components, indicating that There are five offices for the application of Article 140 exist in the provinces of southern Iraq. For her part, MP for the National Coalition beautiful Obeidi: in the House every time we hear about the formation of a committee to Article 140 in the time that everyone knows that this constitutional article, turned to the law passed by the civil governor at the time, Paul Bremer, which clearly pointed out that this article if is not implemented in time than the (30 December 2007), and the article becomes void The law stipulates that the measures include normalization, census and referendum, and all of them did not get She added that consensus, selectivity and the balance of power is to impose itself on the Constitution and the law, which specifically makes the subject of the Commission pop up every time to the surface despite legally and constitutionally completion .oaodan that the Committee on Constitutional Amendments is the Committee dead originally Constitution and despite reservations on some articles breach of the parties which has struggled to pass .oahart that the Constitution was written in conditions were not appropriate, and can not rely on the Constitution books and the country is under occupation, adding that the real problem is selective laws and priorities that come from the government, the political forces that dominate the government sends a secondary laws and leave the important laws and confirmed al-Obeidi said the national coalition nominated three names for membership of the Committee of 140 either own constitutional amendments committee, we have no information available them. For his part MP for the Liberal bloc Majid Ghraoui that the mass as part of the National Alliance system seeks to pass all laws and procedures that will serve the Iraqi people and lift the injustice and oppression with him, adding that the Committee on Constitutional Amendments Committee task and provided for in the Constitution, noting that the Constitution was written in exceptional circumstances, it was race time is subject to the US occupation and the government of Paul Bremer, who was instrumental in passing a lot of articles, despite opposition from many of the blocks of those articles, noting that security and political conditions that were experienced by the country has had a fundamental role in passing the Constitution that the formula if offered at this time on the Iraqi people there was strong opposition to those paragraphs, pointing out that Article 140 has the support of Oalb blocs is noteworthy that the final decision to amend the Constitution remains the Iraqi people through the referendum on constitutional amendments, according to Article 142 of the Constitution is the referendum is successful approval of the majority voting, and if it did not reject the two-thirds of voters in three or more governorates, and this means that any change in the constitution will collide with the power to veto the three provinces.
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