Now in the political market: the new version of the game of "immunity"!
02.09.2012 0:00
The future of Iraq / Amjad Salah
came to the Iraqi political arena for the new game during the past few days was spreading the news by several media outlets to send the Supreme Judicial Council requests to the House of Representatives include the withdrawal of confidence from some of his deputies, according to various counts. To be seen later, and on the lips of MPs concerned that such news baseless, while others emphasize deputies also are concerned about it wrong and the news that they already received requests to the House of Representatives on the Supreme Judicial Council. According to deputies, who refuted the validity of the news that such a move intended to discredit them in front of citizens, while still of Representatives who have confirmed the validity of the applications that they intended to target the political exclusion from the political process by certain parties. He denied the independent MP Sabah al-Saadi and the arrival of any lawsuit against him to the office of House Speaker Osama Najafi, said in a press conference held at the House of Representatives yesterday, "I did not find any book in the office of Nujaifi a lawsuit against me, but the book last issued by the Office of Chief Justice Medhat al-Mahmoud on 9/20/2011 submitted by the complainant Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki faces, and on Bahanty him, according to the book "and called for Saadi of authorized media in a parliamentary source that" be brave and show himself in front of everyone, "and describing them the "adolescent politicians," calling at the same time the media to "confirm before publication," saying "we did not sue any media reported the story," and described political figures did not identify as "living on the political crises that they create between now and then , "said Saadi and that" the judiciary is politicized and pressures and that it is the executive bodies which put pressure on the media and the judiciary to their personal interests. " While a spokesman for the Supreme Judicial Council, Abdul Sattar Bayraktar has stated that the book lift the immunity of MP Sabah al-Saadi was sent to the House of Representatives for the purpose of its application, noting that "the decision to lift the immunity of Saadi has been issued for more than six months." And picked up and other news media to send the Supreme Judicial Council request to lift the immunity of MP from the block free Jaafar al-Moussawi, following the issuance of an arrest warrant against him on charges of being indicted by a blow up Parliament. To deny al-Moussawi, like its predecessor Saadi, yesterday, the issuance of any warrant for his arrest, saying that "some satellite channels targeted personally so so news, does not exceed that some of what passed on satellite TV just Takrsat by it" and confirmed that these reports are baseless and "we will criminal proceedings against these channels, and swarm with such a news, and will proclaim compensation and to stop the satellite TV broadcasting because it is news-driven price, I'll stand and sue both published so news against me, "stressing the need to remove" Media Almends which damages the reputation of honest people in this country ". The Supreme Judicial Council, in turn, absence of a request from it to the House of Representatives to lift legal immunity for al-Moussawi, said the official spokesman for the Supreme Judicial Council, Abdul Sattar Bayraktar said the news of the release request of the Supreme Judicial Council to the House of Representatives to lift legal immunity for the Attorney-Musawi is the news from the truth There was no request or a book on this matter of the Judicial Council. The storm swept requests to lift parliamentary immunity for the Iraqi List Haider Mulla, and asserted in turn that which Nfaah his two companions in parliament, Saadi and al-Moussawi, said that "the Presidency of the Council of Representatives informed me of the request the Supreme Judicial Council to lift the immunity Me," noting that he had submitted a request to the House of Representatives to "the need to lift the immunity of me to go to the judiciary," he said he was honored by any act done by the honor and his appearance before the court, he promised that the issue of immunity were not an obstacle to his appearance before the judiciary. The MP for the Iraqi List, a list of Salim al immunity, responded to this as "a political target," said he would present a request to eliminate it proves his point of view on this matter. He ruled out the leader of the Kurdistan Alliance, Mahmoud Othman, Tuesday, activating the lifting of immunity against some of the House of Representatives, and criticized with deployment of this issue through the media, likely to be behind those requests some pressure on the sides. He said the timing of raising immunity against some members of parliament at this stage "inappropriate", ruling that "the subject is taken seriously, especially since the last parliamentary session saw 12 request to lift the immunity of the judiciary but it did not." For his part, the legal expert Tareq Harb disqualification of the House of Representatives to discuss what is stated in the papers investigative on the lifting of the immunity of deputies in the Iraqi List, recently, and that the powers of the Board include the vote on the request or refusal after verification of a quorum of the meeting, and pointed out that what was released from Judicial Council to the House of Representatives "is a request, which is the prerogative of the House of Representatives for a vote or rejected after you select the session.
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