• 12/07/2011 22:45
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Martin Kobler
"Gate of Iraq" BAGHDAD - The United Nations Mission in Iraq, Wednesday, that the Commission's new in the Electoral Commission for elections in Iraq will be selected by April of next year, 2012, and in affirming that the Iraqi Council of Representatives forward a request for participation in the selection of members of the , pointed out that the transparency and professionalism are the necessities of the forthcoming electoral process in Iraq.
The head of the UN mission in Iraq Martin Kobler in a report submitted to the UN Security Council on the sixth of December, the current, that "the College of Commissioners in the Electoral Commission for the Iraqi elections will be formed by April of 2012, to put out the integrity and legitimacy of the elections next , "asserting that" transparency and professionalism are the necessities of the next electoral processes in Iraq. "
The Kubler that "the Iraqi Council of Representatives made a formal request to the United Nations Mission to play the role of the extraordinary in the process of selecting members of the Commission's new," stressing the need for "the formation of that body that Iraq had a table crowded with electoral processes Kmajals provinces and the elections of the Kurdistan region."
The Kurdistan Alliance was announced in the 21 of November, the current MP for the selection of the National Coalition on the Keywords Chairman of the Selection Committee, the Board of Commissioners of the Electoral Commission.
And the voice of the Iraqi Parliament, in the 28 of July, refused to isolate the Chairman and members of the Electoral Commission for elections, while parliamentary source said 94 deputies just out of the 245 who attended the session voted positively on the proposal.
And completed the House of Representatives, in the 30 of June, questioning the prime Electoral Commission for elections Faraj al-Haidari, after being questioned in (2 May 2011), while the MP for the State of Law coalition Ibrahim Rikabi not convinced the presidency of the Iraqi parliament and all its members answers the last questions, He pointed to the emergence of the many administrative breaches.
And demanded the head of the Department of the elections in the election commission resigned Hamdiya Husseini, in the 16 of last April, to oust the President of the Commission for violating professional rules and the Law Commission, while accusing him of trying to discredit her resignation, considered to mislead the public opinion is "unacceptable."
It is noteworthy that the Electoral Commission for elections in Iraq was formed by order of the Coalition Provisional Authority Order No. 92 in (05/31/2004), to be limited to, the only electoral authority in Iraq, the commission is professional, independent, non-partisan self-administered and state-owned but independent of the executive authorities and legislative, judicial, and have the absolute force of the law, the authority to declare the application and implementation of regulations, rules and procedures for elections during the transitional stage, and not to the forces of the Iraqi political hand in the selection of members of the Board of Commissioners in the transitional phase, other than the Commission members present who have been selected by the Council of Representatives.
The Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki sent, in the (June 22, 2010), wrote to the Electoral Commission includes a stop work, while contained in the following day by refusing it, saying that the executive had nothing to do its work, and it is linked to parliament, exclusively, and is continuing to work in all cases.
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