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Parliamentary inquiry on fraud some lawmakers to vote on important legislation
Ahmed Saadi / Shatt al-Arab - 27/02/2012 PM - 2:04 p.m. | Hits: 146
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Opened the Presidency of the Council of Representatives investigation after receiving information about access through electronic voting fraud on a number of important laws, which could lead to the cancellation of the vote in the event was reached confirms the results of its incidence and its impact in the process of approval or not.
This is the first incident in the House of Representatives, after the use of electronic voting by the month and a half, called the presidency of parliament to stop working in this way to vote and return to the lifting of hands, despite the exchange rate of about one million dollars on the voting system in the last parliamentary session.
According to parliamentary sources, the "morning", the 15th session of the House of Representatives on January 23 last, has to vote on a number of laws, then show that the deputies did not remember their names or their bloc, voted instead for their colleagues by taking them smart cards of their own, what summoned to open an investigation by the Presidency of the Council of Representatives.
It is said that the 15th session of the current legislative session saw the vote on the eight laws of the most prominent of the vote to approve a bill to fund recovery of Iraq's money and allowances, and the approval of the draft Law on the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, and vote to approve a bill organizing the provisions of the nomination for the post of President of the Republic and the provisions of a deputy or more of the President Republic. and confirmed a member of the Integrity Commission, the parliamentary deputy high Nassif "morning" of this information, she said: "The most important reasons to stop electronic voting in the House of Representatives is the receipt of information to the Presidency of the Parliament the adoption of a large number of deputies on the alternative vote for the exit of the hall and ask their colleagues an electronic voting. "
According to legal expert Tariq Harb told the "morning", that this information does not challenge the laws voted upon, except in the case have been discovered - after the announcement of results of the investigation - substantial convergence in the manipulation of votes and that the resolution is to admit or not.
The session was attended by the 15 only 165 deputies, according to data from the information department of the Council of Representatives, namely that the quorum-realized, but several sources confirmed that the deputies left the meeting after it commenced shortly, which may expose the quorum to the imbalance.
Article (23) of the Rules of Procedure of the Parliament as follows: "verifies quorum of the Council in the presence of an absolute majority of its members and shall take its decisions by a simple majority of the number of members present, unless the Constitution provides otherwise, and when equal to the casting vote, who voted with the president."
It is said that members of the House of Representatives in the current session of 325 deputies, according to the Legal Committee of Parliament, holding the regular session requires 163 deputies, that is half plus one, especially as the article (25) of the Rules of Procedure states that "The presence of a quorum is required when voting is not is necessary for the continuation of the meeting. " As mentioned MP Mahmoud Othman, "The incident led to stop electronic voting was to open an investigation with one of his deputies to vote and pressure for more than once for a number of his colleagues through an electronic voting." Othman added that "the prosecutor can be held accountable or conducting the investigation with him so that it does not take more than two hours," and according to the MP does not require it to stop electronic voting completely against the background of the incident in question.
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Ahmed Saadi / Shatt al-Arab - 27/02/2012 PM - 2:04 p.m. | Hits: 146
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Opened the Presidency of the Council of Representatives investigation after receiving information about access through electronic voting fraud on a number of important laws, which could lead to the cancellation of the vote in the event was reached confirms the results of its incidence and its impact in the process of approval or not.
This is the first incident in the House of Representatives, after the use of electronic voting by the month and a half, called the presidency of parliament to stop working in this way to vote and return to the lifting of hands, despite the exchange rate of about one million dollars on the voting system in the last parliamentary session.
According to parliamentary sources, the "morning", the 15th session of the House of Representatives on January 23 last, has to vote on a number of laws, then show that the deputies did not remember their names or their bloc, voted instead for their colleagues by taking them smart cards of their own, what summoned to open an investigation by the Presidency of the Council of Representatives.
It is said that the 15th session of the current legislative session saw the vote on the eight laws of the most prominent of the vote to approve a bill to fund recovery of Iraq's money and allowances, and the approval of the draft Law on the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, and vote to approve a bill organizing the provisions of the nomination for the post of President of the Republic and the provisions of a deputy or more of the President Republic. and confirmed a member of the Integrity Commission, the parliamentary deputy high Nassif "morning" of this information, she said: "The most important reasons to stop electronic voting in the House of Representatives is the receipt of information to the Presidency of the Parliament the adoption of a large number of deputies on the alternative vote for the exit of the hall and ask their colleagues an electronic voting. "
According to legal expert Tariq Harb told the "morning", that this information does not challenge the laws voted upon, except in the case have been discovered - after the announcement of results of the investigation - substantial convergence in the manipulation of votes and that the resolution is to admit or not.
The session was attended by the 15 only 165 deputies, according to data from the information department of the Council of Representatives, namely that the quorum-realized, but several sources confirmed that the deputies left the meeting after it commenced shortly, which may expose the quorum to the imbalance.
Article (23) of the Rules of Procedure of the Parliament as follows: "verifies quorum of the Council in the presence of an absolute majority of its members and shall take its decisions by a simple majority of the number of members present, unless the Constitution provides otherwise, and when equal to the casting vote, who voted with the president."
It is said that members of the House of Representatives in the current session of 325 deputies, according to the Legal Committee of Parliament, holding the regular session requires 163 deputies, that is half plus one, especially as the article (25) of the Rules of Procedure states that "The presence of a quorum is required when voting is not is necessary for the continuation of the meeting. " As mentioned MP Mahmoud Othman, "The incident led to stop electronic voting was to open an investigation with one of his deputies to vote and pressure for more than once for a number of his colleagues through an electronic voting." Othman added that "the prosecutor can be held accountable or conducting the investigation with him so that it does not take more than two hours," and according to the MP does not require it to stop electronic voting completely against the background of the incident in question.
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