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Confirms that the Sadrists will be Bhuzeiran next elections, paving the provincial elections
Thursday, April 26 / April 2012 15:39
Announced the Sadrist movement led by Muqtada al-Sadr, on Thursday, it will be next June, paving the primaries for the elections of provincial councils and districts and areas, stressing that it form a higher committee to supervise the elections, with several set conditions for accepting candidates.
He said Sadr's spokesman Salah al-Obeidi told a press conference held at the headquarters of the political body of the stream and attended "Alsumaria News", "the latter face a primary election, paving the provincial elections and districts and areas," stressing that "which will be an opportunity for people to choose who represents the mass of the Liberals in elections. "
Obeidi said that "has been commissioned from the chest to form a higher committee to supervise the elections scheduled in June this year, according to a schedule begins stages," noting that "the first of these stages is receiving applications for applicants to contest the primaries from the first day of next June and until the fifth tenth of it, through the committees formed for this purpose in all the provinces. "
He said al-Obeidi that "the move will be followed by a period matching those requests to be met by the applicant and approval of applications by the Committee during the period of ten days announced after the names of those eligible to contest the primaries on the mass of the free," stressing that "this is done according to the criteria, will be awarded applicants a period of seven days to promote themselves in various media, according to legal regulations in place for the official Electoral Commission. "
The al-Obeidi that "there will be a whole month to contest the primary elections throughout Iraq through four stages," noting that "the first phase St_khas sector provinces of Basra, Maysan, Dhi Qar and later held on June 8, 2012, and the other provinces of Diwaniyah and Samawah and Wasit in the June 15, 2012, and the third provinces of Najaf, Karbala, Babylon on June 22, 2012, and the fourth the provinces of Baghdad, Diyala, Salahuddin, Kirkuk and Nineveh, on June 29, 2012. "
For his part, Secretary General of the Liberal bloc MP Zia al-Asadi that "there must be several conditions that the candidate, is to be an Iraqi and Iraqi parents, and completed the age of thirty, and the same province, which purports to run it, as is required to have obtained a bachelor's degree as a minimum and diploma or prep for the province and district councils. "
The al-Asadi that "no right of the applicant to nominate for more than the Council, and it should not be advanced or a relative of the first class of workers in the Baath party, or proved it is without prejudice to his integrity, as required to be of good behavior is known in the social , and The political experience, every Iraqi is entitled to stand for election primaries, regardless of religious affiliation or national or sectarian. "
The al-Asadi that the "conditions also included that is not the candidate sentenced misdemeanor or felony or has under criminal except for political prisoners detained during the former regime or in the period of occupation, and that his position intact, both legitimate and legal, within the guidelines approved by the Electoral Commission, as not be required to Advanced contractor or from dealers contracting and processing of government departments. "
The condition of the current candidate must not be a member of any military organization, ideological or party dictatorship or former also required to not be wearing uniforms spiritual religious current or former, are required to adhere to the candidate controls and codes of conduct national set by the Office of the elections for candidates and political entities. "
The Electoral Commission for elections announced, in January 23, 2012, for completion of the final draft of the provincial elections law and the districts and areas, confirming near forwarded to the House of Representatives for a vote, pointed out that it is hoped the elections next year.
The head of the House of Representatives Osama Najafi called, (February 27, 2011), the Iraqi government, Parliament and the Electoral Commission for elections to hold early elections for provincial councils and districts and areas, within three or four months, stressing that the Parliament will amend the law on provincial elections.
The provincial elections were held in 2009 in all parts of Iraq with the exception of Kirkuk and the Kurdistan region.
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