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Legal expert: reducing the number of parliamentarians is constitutionally possible, and Abadi able to dissolve parliament
Saturday 12 September 2015 - 14:22
Legal expert Tareq Harb explained that reducing the number of members of the House of Representatives the process can not be implemented without an amendment to the Constitution by virtue of Article 49 of the First Constitution, which stipulates that each Member of Parliament represents 100 thousand citizens.
He added in his interview with Radio tow it accordingly, the number of members of the House now stands at 328, at a time when the population was over 32 million, and according to that article, the number of members may increase in the coming elections for up to 340 by virtue of the increase in the hearts of Iraqis who are over for the time being the barrier of 34 million people, which would entail an increase in the number of members of the House of Representatives in the event no amendment of that article in the Constitution.
He predicted that the war is not and find the amendment of Article 49 of the Constitution, any objection by the political blocs even if from different doctrines.
With regard to the dissolution of the House of Representatives, Harb said that the dissolution does not require any amendment in the Constitution as he was prime minister can dissolve the council after the approval of the President of the Republic, or that the Council dissolved itself to be after that early elections considering that the dissolution of the House of Representatives was before the period prescribed for the end of his work, which amounts to four years.
He expressed his belief that the war things in the Iraqi state moving towards the dissolution of parliament by virtue of the nature of the alliances and the current situation of the country. According to the saying.
The Bloc call to change the election law and hold early elections, while confirming the need to be reducing the number of members of the House of Representatives to half the current number.
He said the block behind the head Abdul Samad said in a statement on Saturday, said that after that the Iraqi people came out in demonstrations rightly sought to change the political reality, especially with regard to the salaries of MPs and ministers, so you must change the electoral law and early elections to be setting conditions are in line with street view Iraqi ones that are reducing the number of members of the House of Representatives to half the current number.
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Saturday 12 September 2015 - 14:22
Legal expert Tareq Harb explained that reducing the number of members of the House of Representatives the process can not be implemented without an amendment to the Constitution by virtue of Article 49 of the First Constitution, which stipulates that each Member of Parliament represents 100 thousand citizens.
He added in his interview with Radio tow it accordingly, the number of members of the House now stands at 328, at a time when the population was over 32 million, and according to that article, the number of members may increase in the coming elections for up to 340 by virtue of the increase in the hearts of Iraqis who are over for the time being the barrier of 34 million people, which would entail an increase in the number of members of the House of Representatives in the event no amendment of that article in the Constitution.
He predicted that the war is not and find the amendment of Article 49 of the Constitution, any objection by the political blocs even if from different doctrines.
With regard to the dissolution of the House of Representatives, Harb said that the dissolution does not require any amendment in the Constitution as he was prime minister can dissolve the council after the approval of the President of the Republic, or that the Council dissolved itself to be after that early elections considering that the dissolution of the House of Representatives was before the period prescribed for the end of his work, which amounts to four years.
He expressed his belief that the war things in the Iraqi state moving towards the dissolution of parliament by virtue of the nature of the alliances and the current situation of the country. According to the saying.
The Bloc call to change the election law and hold early elections, while confirming the need to be reducing the number of members of the House of Representatives to half the current number.
He said the block behind the head Abdul Samad said in a statement on Saturday, said that after that the Iraqi people came out in demonstrations rightly sought to change the political reality, especially with regard to the salaries of MPs and ministers, so you must change the electoral law and early elections to be setting conditions are in line with street view Iraqi ones that are reducing the number of members of the House of Representatives to half the current number.
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