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Conference in Babylon discusses draft law on political parties
21/01/2012
Participants stress the importance of overcoming obstacles and speed up the legislation
Hilla - Ali the Plumber
Discussed by academics and political activists in the province of Babylon, the most important obstacles that hinder the process of legislation law to regulate political parties in the country. The Dean of the Faculty of Political Science, University of Nahrain, Dr. Amer Hassan Fayyad, while attending a conference organized by the Centre for Development Research and Studies Strategy in the province of Babylon: The draft law regulating the the work of political parties in Iraq, which was read a first reading in the House, faced with a number of obstacles that prevent the final approval, noting that the main obstacles for fear of some political parties and political entities of the loss of the military wings possessed by considering that the draft law to prevent that, in addition to The draft itself obliges parties to disclose their resources and sources of funding in the form which does not appeal to some parties that receive funding from abroad, he said. He said that disabled the third is that the draft law imposes on the parties adopt the principles of democracy to elect their leaders and this conflicts with the policies of some parties that adheres to historic leaders can not change them, pointing out that the draft law and despite all the obstacles encountered is one of the important laws and should speed up the legislation.
For his part, criticized the Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Baghdad, Dr. Ali high, that the draft law provisions linking the political parties, the executive branch through the Department on behalf of the Department of Public parties linked to the Ministry of Justice and the granting of this department broad powers are granted the license and monitor the parties and resolved, considering the bill in its current form He makes this circuit is the rule and the opponent in that one, as he put it. He said the draft law also includes a tribunal on behalf of the administrative court does not follow the Judicial Council, but the Ministry of Justice, which means to link the judiciary to the executive branch, which generates a state of fear to the parties of decisions taken by the Court in the future. He added that the draft law contains many of the conditions which he described as »illogical» to be provided in any entity seeking to form a political party, including the composition of the constituent number of 2000 people representing six provinces as well as imposed by the draft of the sanctions harsh against parties that violate the law. He called on conference participants to the need for substantial amendments in the draft law that will ensure the enactment of an integrated, discreet and free of gaps that may require amendment of the law at a later stage.
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