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Dissatisfaction after the street .. Pressure and the reference .. House of Representatives voted to repeal Article purchase armored vehicles
07.03.2012 0:00
The future of Iraq / Bushra Al Shammari
decided session twenty-sixth of the second legislative term of the year the second legislative, in the House of Representatives, on Tuesday, the abolition of Article purchase of armored vehicles designed to protect deputies in the presence of 220 deputies of the total number of deputies of 325 members. This comes after he had seen the street wave of discontent by voting on the material to purchase the armored cars of the deputies $ 60 billion dinars, the equivalent of $ 50 million, and the voice of members to approve the article on Iraqi long witnessed the death of 60 Iraqis and 350 wounded. and Parliament decided transfers of funds appropriated for the purchase of armored vehicles to other sections to support the capacity of security agencies and assist victims of terrorism who are the Iraqi government said recently that the number amounted to 70 thousand victims between 2004 and 2011, in addition to more than a quarter million people. The religious authorities in Iraq attacked the House of Representatives in 23 of the last month to vote on the purchase of armored vehicles. As stated cancel the purchase decision, after circulating information about the direction of the Iraqi presidency to overturn paragraph purchase at the time made a political blocs proposals for the replacement of these armored vehicles to those that will be used by Arab leaders and members of their delegations during the Arab summit in Baghdad on 29 this month, its 400 armored car, terms will be agreed between the House of Representatives and the government on how the distribution of these armored vehicles to MPs, especially in areas of security tensions. Earlier called reference Shiite cleric in Iraq, Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani House to abandon the purchase of armored vehicles, and the allocation of amounts to carry out service projects and care for victims of terrorism and the widows and orphans. also called on House Speaker Osama Najafi House of Representatives to delay access to armored cars in spite of that constitutional right, as confirmed, addressed Najafi in a letter to the House of Representatives, saying, "I understand your desire to get the armored cars and that the circumstances of your business special, which is right enjoyed by your peers in the Iraqi state presidents, ministers, the judiciary and independent bodies - but who are the lowest of you in the grades. "It is noted that although the 222 deputies out of 325 are members of the Iraqi Council of Representatives had filed earlier request to provide them with armored vehicles to protect them, but having voted in blocks of the Council last week to balance the country, including the purchase of 350 armored vehicles, they began to pressure the Iraqi street, and his frustration and criticism of the religious leaders Petrahq charges among themselves about the vote of the substance or refusal where the cast blocks on each other's responsibility to approve the purchase armored vehicles.
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