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Iraqi parliament amended the Law on Local Elections and Najafi leads the new bloc to fight
12.14.2012 | (Voice of Iraq) - Add a comment -
BAGHDAD - Abdul Wahid Tohme Friday, December 14, 2012 announced currents within the «Iraqi List» bloc as «united», led by Parliament Speaker Osama al-Nujaifi, to contest local elections, as Parliament voted yesterday to amend the law which provides for the re-calculation of votes. announced Sheikh Ahmed Abu Risha, head of «Awakening Conference Iraq», that alliance «united» which announced its establishment the day before yesterday: »Select Najafi president to run for provincial elections». and fall in the new bloc formations «Iraqi» and «future» and «Turkmen Front Independent» and «humpback», as well-known political figures, such as Finance Minister Rafie al-Issawi, and leaders of the Islamic Party, including the Minister of Science and Technology Abdul Karim al-Samarrai, and Chairman of the Commission on Human Rights Parliamentary Salim al, and Diyala governor Omar Aziz Humairi, and governor of Nineveh province, Atheel Najafi. According to information to declare a prospective for the Alliance of Deputy Prime Minister Saleh al-Mutlaq and Jamal Karbouli, the leader of the «solution», and are also components of the «Iraq», alliance and to engage in elections April in a single list. Moreover, Parliament voted yesterday majority on the Fourth Amendment to the Law on Elections No. 36 provincial councils for the year 2008. The text of the amendment that «divided valid votes for each entity on the individual numbers the number of seats constituency then being sought highest number of results division to give the seats and reiterates the case until it is exhausted seats constituency (the method of St. Lego)». and re-edited «distribution of seats on the candidates open list and re-sequencing of candidates based on the number of votes obtained by the candidate and be the first winner is who gets the largest number of votes in the open list, and so on for the rest of the candidates to be a woman at the end of every three winners regardless of the winners of the men ». He attributed the amendment reasons to »the decision of the Federal Court declared unconstitutional the fifth paragraph of Article 13 of the provincial elections law and district and provincial No. 36 of 2008 as amended, the incumbent on the House of Representatives legislation law guaranteeing the application of the provisions of the constitutional articles in a way gives the citizen the right to vote for those who want does not give voice to those who did not turn his will to his election. Dar Al Hayat
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