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Thursday, November 8, 2012
Committee voted legal in the Iraqi parliament yesterday majority on the proposed law to limit the jurisdiction of the three presidencies two sessions elections, includes specifically mandate of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, amid strong objections by the bloc «rule of law» faction which threatened to resort to the judiciary «to challenge unconstitutional law.
He announced committee member MP cute Mustafa in a press conference yesterday that his committee «approved by a majority of its members at a meeting (yesterday) on the legislation law requires mandatory paragraph states the three presidencies, and was sent to the Presidency of the Council of Representatives for inclusion on the agenda of future meetings».
The mass Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr (HSS) prepared in July last bill to limit the jurisdiction presidencies of the Republic and the Cabinet and Parliament, and presented to the committee after amendments to a number of paragraphs, and voted for him ten members out of 16, while casual 6 others are 5 of a coalition of state law and a member of the bloc «patriots».
A member of the legal committee and deputy «rule of law» Hussein Net's «life» that «Legal Committee committed a constitutional violation and clear and voted in favor of the law can not be passed in Parliament», pointing out that «paragraphs of the law as well as being bucked Article 72 of the Constitution, came loose and ill-considered.
He added that «the bill text on the mandate of the three presidencies two sessions without definition session or determine the number of years, as the Constitution Select mandate of the President of the Republic and is silent on the states of the prime ministers and the parliament because the parliamentary system in any country in the world does not specify the mandate of the Prime Minister and that is right the candidate of the largest parliamentary bloc.
Net considered that the motives of the law proposal «political par excellence, not political crises and atmosphere of harassment and tugging no proposal from the ground up. And between the bloc considers that «the bill will not pass in Parliament to the lack of political majority in favor, although I found it shall amend the constitution first because we Sentan legislation in Federal Court and will never see the light».
Article 72 of the Constitution provides that «define the mandate of President four years and may be re-elected for a second term only», and «end the mandate of President end the session the House of Representatives», with no constitution provides for the mandate of the Prime Minister.
The bill includes the expiration of the mandate of the three presidencies the end of the election cycle in which elected president by parliament, may not take over as President of the Republic by the same person for more than two consecutive or non-consecutive.
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