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Parties in the Iraqi political parties than the total U.S. and Britain, Egypt and Jordan
Date: Monday 12/03/2012 10:42
Baghdad / Majid flood
despite the lapse of nearly nine years on the change in Iraq, and parliamentary elections for three times (the National Assembly elections in 2006 and 2010) and vote on the Constitution, left the political scene undisciplined, and loose in terms of organization, as is still the country lacks a law regulating work parties,
This has resulted in the dominance of parties given the reins of power, with the marginalization and clear to other destinations
Recent statistics to the presence of more than 500 party working in the political arena, and with the draft to pass a law of parties in the House of Representatives, but he has not received approval, with the reactions came rejecting the formula of the law as devoted to the dominance of the current parties, does not give room for the emergence of new parties could be competing with them.
expert in the elections considered that the multi-party, is permitted in any democratic state, and that a large number of parties is not a bad thing in the case of them clumping according to the work of a serious and real, and the expert said Adel al-Lami said in an interview with the term, there are 504 political parties in Iraq and there is nothing to regulate their work, which is certified by the Electoral Commission for elections only, and for the purposes of the election, and therefore they are not licensed, and their ends loose, and governed by the general rules only , and the Parties Law, which is scheduled to vote on it, said al-Lami, "that the law is broken and dictatorial, and allows for government intervention work parties, which is time itself stand in the way in front of any activity which adversely have, in addition to the observations of the many tainted, including, but not limited to conditions that can be described Baltjeezah which stand in anyone who wants to establish a new party, "and what the current parties Can be called by name the party, said al-Lami," she configurations bohemian, and not the organization, and both hold a press conference in which a set of slogans that touches the public become a leader among overnight, and thus is a small shops. "
concluded Al-Lami his speech by saying that the dominant parties currently are hindering the law of parties, electoral law, and freedom of access to information and a lot of laws that conflict with its interests. "
It should be noted that in the U.S. four parties, two of which are competing on the election, two Republican and Democrat, either Britain wherein six parties, three of them major, and three other subsidiary located in Wales and Scotland, are vying for power in which parties are, the Labour Party and the conservatives, either in the Arab region, the State such as Egypt and the size of a population that exceeds the 80 million people, after the overthrow Mubarak, the number of parties which 27 party only, either in a country like Jordan Vioagd the 35 other parties licensed.
professor of political science at the University of Baghdad, Dr. Hamid Fadil, in an interview with long pointed out that number of parties enormous in Iraq than the number of parties, any country in the world, and that such a large number of parties is part of the chaos that spread over the past nine years, and that the transition from one-party system has produced for us this mess is calculated organizationally. said Fadel "It seems that we - Iraqis - are passionate about achieving the record, at the expense of quantity rather than kind, we have a bigger government, which took time to record significant for its formation, so we are passionate about numbers without results, "
He stated that the Democracy needs the tools of thought a crane, and that political party is one of the highest tool carrier between Authority and the people, and the disabled parties law, said Fadel "There is deliberate large part of major political parties dominating the political process do not want to be a law of real parties, citing that he devotes the parties and governed by the political scene, and that these parties are not on the fingers of one hand , and hinted that the election law related to the law of parties separated for the survival of the major parties in power, and that what is happening now is a focus on sub-identities and secondary schools, and that the current parties are not of a character sectarian or denominational, but is the title of President of these descriptions. The new law for parties of Iraq and approved by the Government and referred to the House for discussion and voting on it, has sparked controversy and political concerns of the lead text to government funding of political parties financially from the state budget and put it subject to the whims and pressures of the executive branch, at the time worried parties a window of possibility revealed law to finance the external received since 2003.
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