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Legislative and regulatory performance of the Council of Representatives under the microscope
On: Tue 03/01/2012 8:44
Baghdad / Hossam Haj
despite the fact that the House of Representatives at its second session than in terms of the legislation of laws to his counterpart in the first electoral cycle by about thirty percent if it continues at the same rate for the year legislative first, but he has been the area widely criticized by the popular and elite in the country
Because of the emptying of the Council of the content of the legislative and regulatory framework and subject to political fluctuations may be suspended Congress coalition, the Iraqi participation in the meetings of the House of Representatives at the end of the year's most-watched, the House of Representatives managed to legislation and forty-one law and had read about a hundred and ten laws, a rate higher than the product of the previous board by significant according to observers is that these laws were limited to the ratification of international treaties and to cancel previous legislation as follows.
10 laws the ratification of the treaty had been concluded by the executive branch.
11 laws the abolition of the previous legislation had been issued by the Revolutionary Command Council dissolved.
20 laws is the output Legislative actual to the Council.
The most prominent of those laws.
the law of the federal budget for the year two thousand and eleven, which contained materials affected by loud demonstrations V of the month of February last, and most notably the abolition of social benefits for the three presidencies and a ceiling fixed for the exchange of Ministers of the budgets of which seventy percent of the total annual budget of a damaged is the minister an article from office.
in addition to the law of the Vice-President of the Republic and the law of the opinion and the law of service and retirement for the internal security forces and the law of Literacy . He says an expert in constitutional law, Dr. Ali pink in this regard, "Iraqi Council of Representatives at its second election, like the machine that is intended to manufacture bread only when needed in the sense that the necessities of stage He had passes laws serve the interests of the political consensus such as the federal budget, which was a response shy to the demands of filled by the Tahrir Square demonstrations in February 25 last February, however, have not been implemented mostly as it was an attempt to absorb the resentment of the street that looked scary actually to some ruling elites "and" The second law is the law of the Vice-President of the Republic, a law was intended to complete the political deal that led to the agreement Arbil, then the Council has disabled a legislative for several months due to political discord and lack of will the actual activation of the role of the House of Representatives. "
as well as vulnerable to political crises failed the House of Representatives forced the Government to implement legislation where the government arrested a number of legislation for various reasons, without moving the finger was most recently the law of the salaries and allowances President of the Republic and the Council of Ministers, which was stopped implemented by the Council of Ministers until an amendment to it, and illegal Integrity Commission and the Office of Financial Supervision, which legally amid objections from the State of Law Coalition led by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and some components of the National Alliance and the frequency in political circles that the Prime Minister intends to to appeal the Federal Court the validity of laws on the grounds that the law grants the right to nominate and vote for the President of the bodies of the Council of Representatives exclusively.
describes the deputies of the coalition, the Iraqi government's behavior coup explicit provisions of the Constitution, said MP Haider Mulla "actions and decisions taken by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is a coup clear and explicit provisions of the Constitution through the disruption of the laws of the legislature without legal basis and through the administration of the State Agency and outside the framework of the Constitution and by disrupting the provisions of the Constitution and the parliamentary blocs that support these procedures to be aware of its responsibility to protect the Constitution. "
The members of the Legal Committee of the Parliamentary affected performance Legislative House of Representatives political crises, where he says MP for a coalition of state law, a member of the legal Hussein net over "There are several themes influenced the legislative performance of the House of Representatives in 2011, most notably the political differences that have swept the country in addition to the presence of pressure exercised by the Presidency of the Council of Representatives to withdraw some laws and pass the other for pure political reasons. "
The level supervisory oldest of the Council on the processes of questioning of the first was for members of the Board of Commissioners of the Electoral Commission for elections in accordance with the request made by an MP for the coalition of state law, Hanan al is that they failed to persuade the Council to censure him as the most power representative felt that the motives of the interrogation was political, in addition to their belief that there is no need for no-confidence in the current parliament, which is nearing its term calendar to an end,
and the second is the question presented by the Attorney for the State of Law Shirwan Waeli against the Secretary of Baghdad Sabir al-Issawi it is hoped to include a vote of no confidence for when the resumption of Council meetings early next year in the presence of indicators demonstrate to mobilize enough votes to the inside of the Dome of the Parliament.
says MP from Kurdistan Alliance Ohoaq dry that "political influence left its mark deep in the practice of the House of Representatives for its oversight role defended MP questioned often be political and defenses provided by the Executive questioned based on the mobilization of the views of his forehead politically I do not think that one focuses on the charges and defenses professionally and evidence that most of the powers Parliamentary take its decisions unanimously, which means that the will of the Attorney individual completely absent in such interrogations. "
with the exception of these two processes did not exercise the House role regulatory and clear and has become subject to the degree of the impact of a clear political crises, which caused also disable important laws as law of oil and gas and the Law Council of strategic policies and the law of the Federal Supreme Court and the law of the Supreme Judicial Council.
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