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Kurdistan: the right to three provinces to put a "veto" against any constitutional amendments
16/3/2012 | (Voice of Iraq)
(Rn) , said Vice President of the Kurdistan Alliance bloc in the Iraqi parliament, on Friday, that the rejection of three provinces of the state constitutional amendments in the future be regarded as a "veto," noting that the Committee on constitutional amendments will not be able to make changes in the constitutional articles of substance.
said Mohsen Saadoun told the Kurdish news agency (Rn) that "the Federal Constitution noted in Article 142 to form a committee of the constitutional amendments from the various political blocs and members of the House of Representatives and the Iraqi people." He said, "after the end of the current legislative term will be chosen members of this committee, which will not be able, similar to their counterparts in the previous session, to go to make amendments in the articles of constitutional fundamental. "
And the chief powers of parliamentary and the Presidency of the Council of Representatives, had agreed at a meeting they held, last Sunday, in the hall's Constitutional Council building, to form a parliamentary committee in particular the constitutional amendments. According to al-Sadoun, a member of the legal committee of parliamentary, that "the work of the constitutional amendments will be limited to some formulations of constitutional or some of the material in which it has approved in the House of Representatives."
and that "a mechanism to amend the constitution in Iraq is different from other countries because it is a parliamentary system," explaining "When are the Committee inter amendments, will be presented to the House of Representatives at once, and last, if voted on, will send them to the President who will put on the Iraqi people." He added by saying "the condition is important here is the acceptance of the Iraqi people to these amendments, and if rejected by the three provinces will be considered as the draft amendments is viable, meaning it is a veto popular representative population of three provinces. "
On the position of the Kurdistan Alliance of constitutional amendments proposed, he drew Sadoun that "he could support the action formulations of some of the doors and the constitutional articles, as well as from the addition of clarification on some of the other, "but he also said," but the amendments to the constitutional articles that may be considered crucial and represents the tragedy of the past for various components of the Iraqi people, it is not able to the committee amendment, and it is possible that we support in this. "
and noted that "we do not want to anticipate events, because work of this committee is very slow, it is possible to go on to two years without access to the amendments because the hard work ".. Noting that "in the session the previous parliamentary committee was formed similar to the same purpose, and in four years could not provide any constitutional amendments." Articles 128 and 142 need to form a committee to consider constitutional amendments to be put to a popular referendum, and under these articles formed a committee in the election cycle the former is that it can not resolve the major differences in respect of articles which should be amended in the Constitution. of: numbness of acetate, the Open: Peace Baghdadi
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16/3/2012 | (Voice of Iraq)
(Rn) , said Vice President of the Kurdistan Alliance bloc in the Iraqi parliament, on Friday, that the rejection of three provinces of the state constitutional amendments in the future be regarded as a "veto," noting that the Committee on constitutional amendments will not be able to make changes in the constitutional articles of substance.
said Mohsen Saadoun told the Kurdish news agency (Rn) that "the Federal Constitution noted in Article 142 to form a committee of the constitutional amendments from the various political blocs and members of the House of Representatives and the Iraqi people." He said, "after the end of the current legislative term will be chosen members of this committee, which will not be able, similar to their counterparts in the previous session, to go to make amendments in the articles of constitutional fundamental. "
And the chief powers of parliamentary and the Presidency of the Council of Representatives, had agreed at a meeting they held, last Sunday, in the hall's Constitutional Council building, to form a parliamentary committee in particular the constitutional amendments. According to al-Sadoun, a member of the legal committee of parliamentary, that "the work of the constitutional amendments will be limited to some formulations of constitutional or some of the material in which it has approved in the House of Representatives."
and that "a mechanism to amend the constitution in Iraq is different from other countries because it is a parliamentary system," explaining "When are the Committee inter amendments, will be presented to the House of Representatives at once, and last, if voted on, will send them to the President who will put on the Iraqi people." He added by saying "the condition is important here is the acceptance of the Iraqi people to these amendments, and if rejected by the three provinces will be considered as the draft amendments is viable, meaning it is a veto popular representative population of three provinces. "
On the position of the Kurdistan Alliance of constitutional amendments proposed, he drew Sadoun that "he could support the action formulations of some of the doors and the constitutional articles, as well as from the addition of clarification on some of the other, "but he also said," but the amendments to the constitutional articles that may be considered crucial and represents the tragedy of the past for various components of the Iraqi people, it is not able to the committee amendment, and it is possible that we support in this. "
and noted that "we do not want to anticipate events, because work of this committee is very slow, it is possible to go on to two years without access to the amendments because the hard work ".. Noting that "in the session the previous parliamentary committee was formed similar to the same purpose, and in four years could not provide any constitutional amendments." Articles 128 and 142 need to form a committee to consider constitutional amendments to be put to a popular referendum, and under these articles formed a committee in the election cycle the former is that it can not resolve the major differences in respect of articles which should be amended in the Constitution. of: numbness of acetate, the Open: Peace Baghdadi
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