Editor: NK | BS Thursday, 08 March 2012 15:54 GMT
The counting of votes in the Iraqi parliamentary elections that took place on the seventh of March of 2010
Sumerian News / Baghdad
called for the UN mission in Iraq, "UNAMI", Thursday, to ensure the transparency of the process of appointing members of the Electoral Commission the new foundations of a professional to ensure the credibility of all future elections in the country away from sectarian interests or partisan, and with renewed support experts to Iraq in the selection process Board of Commissioners, confirmed the importance of ensuring the representation of women in the electoral commission. The head of UNAMI Martin Kobler said in a statement on Thursday received the "Sumerian News" copy of it, on the sidelines of his meeting with the parliamentary committee charged with choosing the members of the Electoral Commission, said that "It's important to ensure the transparency of the appointment of members Commission and is based on professional standards to ensure selection of independent persons with experience in the field of elections. " said Kubler that "the selection of members of the Commission on the basis of professional standards does not guarantee the credibility of the Commission only, but also ensures the credibility of all the upcoming elections in Iraq," stressing "the need not to seen the Iraqi people to a variety Commission next to it represents the interests of sectarian Oouhzbah. " and stressed "the need to complete the selection process in a timely manner before the expiry of the mandate of the Board of Commissioners present by April 2012 to ensure that provincial elections after nine months on schedule for it." The President of the United Nations Mission in Iraq on "the need to ensure representation of women" in the council next to the commissioners of the Electoral Commission for elections, once again support the Mission's experts to Iraq in the selection process. and was Chairman of the Selection Committee members of the Electoral Commission on the Keywords said in a news conference on the seventh of February, The "Committee for the selection of candidates in the Board of Commissioners of the Commission on the Electoral accepted as a first stage 4400 advanced a total of seven thousand and 771 for the selection of nine commissioners of them," noting that "the Commission developed a set of standards in the process of trade-off to start the second phase for the selection of 600 candidates from among the applicants." referred that the establishment of the Electoral Commission for elections in Iraq was ordered by the Coalition Provisional Authority No. 92 in the 5/31/2004 to be limited to, the electoral authority only in Iraq, and the Office of the independent professional non-partisan, self-administered and state-owned but independent of the executive, legislative, judicial, and have the force of absolute law, the power to declare the application and implementation of regulations, rules and procedures relating to elections during the transitional period, and was not the forces of the Iraqi political hand in the selection of members of the Board of Commissioners in the transitional phase, other than the Commission members present who have been selected by the House of Representatives at its previous session. It is noteworthy that Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki sent, in the June 22, 2010, letter to the Electoral Commission includes a stop of work, when responded the next day by refusing it, saying that the executive had nothing to do its job, and it is linked exclusively to the parliament, and is continuing to work in all circumstances.
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