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Parliament raises and postpone its discussion of the electricity issue
On: Friday 5/4/2012 6:02
Baghdad / range
raised the Presidency of the Council of Representatives on Thursday, its the 38 of the legislative year second to tomorrow, next, while the parliamentary source that the meeting saw the vote on the members of the Federal Court of Cassation, and three other bills, as has been postponed voting on the draft law seeds seeds and read the report of the asylum Iraqi asylum forcibly deported from European countries.
The source said that "the President of the House of Representatives Osama Najafi adjournment of the Parliament of the 38, which was held today under his chairmanship and the presence of 212 deputies, to Saturday day on the fifth of May current," noting that "the meeting saw the vote for 23 members of the Federal Court of Cassation of 24".
The source added, "The session also saw the vote on the bill exempting farmers and peasants borrowers of the benefits of previous loans incurred discharged, and the draft registration law and the adoption of pesticides, and the draft law regulating the circulation of agricultural products," adding that "has been reading the reports I on the reality of power and the other on administrative error which caused bring the Iraqi Olympic team from qualifying for London. "
The source added that "Parliament decided to postpone the vote on the bill the seeds of seeds, and read the report of Iraqi asylum-seekers deported forcibly from European countries."
The Committee on Energy parliamentary, has been accused in earlier Ministry of Electricity existence of files, financial and administrative corruption and waste of public money worth millions of dollars.
The House of Representatives was scheduled to read a report at its 38 th on the reality of power in Iraq, but the lack of quorum prevented the convening of the meeting and present it to the session on Thursday.
Iraq has suffered a severe shortage of electric power since the beginning of the nineties of the last century, and increased hours of rationing power after 2003, in Baghdad and the provinces, because of made a lot of stations, as well as sabotage attacks on vital installations during the past years, and the steady increase in consumption due to public demand to buy electrical appliances and equipment which have been deprived of them over the past decades as a result the economic blockade.
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