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Representatives discuss holidays and demanding to cancel the vacation Saturday
BAGHDAD - World
House completed the second reading of the draft law on public holidays, which included 123 days of official holiday, including Friday and Saturday.
While lawmakers have demanded the abolition of a holiday on Saturday, just like countries in the region that are running disruption on Friday alone, let the others need to be limited time on Saturday and the Ministries of Health and Education.
While eliminating the law holiday on April 9 and all previous system malfunction.
A statement posted on the House of Representatives, and seen by "the world" on Wednesday, "The Council completed the second reading of the draft law on public holidays provided by the committees of Awqaf and Religious Affairs and Culture, Media and legal," noting that "the meeting saw presentations to Congress, including an invitation MP Hamid vegetative to cancel a holiday on Saturday or converted to Thursday with the exception of the Ministries of Education and Higher Education. "
The statement added that "MP Hassan Auzmn cancel holiday on July 14 because of the events that took place in several cities, but he opened the door of military coups."
The statement, that "MP Moussawi recommended names as on December 30, a national holiday because it is linked to the withdrawal of U.S. troops, in addition to the importance of the addition of Eid Ghadir Trafalgar to the bill."
He stated that "Bahaa al-Araji urged Iraqi Army Day celebration rather than make it an official holiday, similar to the celebration of Teacher's Day, and that priority will be to unite the Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha in the Shiite and Sunni requirement of respect for the opinion of the religious authority."
A statement to the House of Representatives that "claim MP Noor البجاري formation of complex scientific between Islamic sects to unite the holidays and perused some Hijri months, also pointed to support MP Mohamed Hindawi to make the request on starting revolted official holiday."
According to the statement, "He called Kanna to make the first day of April holiday for Christians on the occasion of the Spring Festival, the Babylonian calendar, with the definition of the dates contained in the law, according to the nature of the special occasion the Christian religion."
For its part, saw MP Hanan al according to the statement on "the importance of reducing public holidays in the bill and give the provincial councils the power to determine the holidays."
He said, "MP Mohammad Iqbal proposed change clause granting the government the right to give a holiday for a week and the need to link the accession of natural disasters and security events and others, while MP sincere Aichoa that are Christmas and Easter for 3 days in addition to the adoption of a holiday belonging to religious holidays for the component Christian."
He Haider Mulla according to the statement that "the holidays and events in all states bear a national dimension," explaining that "Iraq is part of the international system and hence the holiday on Friday and Saturday are consistent with the daily trading with the countries of the world", also urged Abdul Khader al-Tahir, a member of the Board of House of Representatives, the "cancel long holidays for the festive days and identify each of the two days Eid al-Adha and Fitr and distribution of working hours for a holiday on Saturday to the rest of the days."
For his part, MP Amin Farhan to "Add Holiday Prophet Khader Elias to the holidays special Pallaisiden and select a day for each province celebrated to be an incentive on her tender, while the MP Khalid Amin to" reconsider determine Christmas Mandaeans ", adding that" the real number of days of festivals where a great injustice. "
For his part, pointed purity of net debt and the Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs, to "the importance of resolving the bill soon after came from behind for years," he said, adding, "government's adherence to the draft law submitted by it." The law refers to the number of public holidays in the event of approval by the House of Representatives to the presence of between 120 to 123 days in government departments.
It turns out that public holidays and that does not include public holidays for the components and minorities account for nearly a third of the year as there are 52 weeks in the year and every week day, two Friday and Saturday in the sense the presence of 104 days holiday on Fridays and Saturdays.
And there is approximately 16 to 19 days holiday there occasions been included in the Act holidays inactivated since 2008, which has the second reading to him at a meeting on Wednesday (the difference in days may occur in determining the day of the Eid al-Fitr and Adha where the law between that it must not exceed 5 days).
The law also eliminates the ninth of April vacation on the entry of U.S. forces into Iraq and malfunction of the former regime.
The following public holidays in the law:
1 - Friday and Saturday of each week.
2 - the first day of Muharram (Islamic New Year).
3 - the tenth of Muharram on Ashura.
4 - 12 April first (the birth of Prophet Mohammad).
5 - the first to the third of Shawwal (Eid al-Fitr).
6 - the tenth to the thirteenth November (Eid al-Adha).
7 - One January (New Year's Day).
8 - the sixth of January (Army Day).
9 - Twenty-one March (festival of Nowruz).
10 - one of May (Labor Day).
11 - the fourteenth of July (the announcement of the establishment of the Republic of Iraq).
12 - the third of October (Independence Day, National Day of the Republic of Iraq).
Holidays of the Christian community:
1 - Twenty-fifth of December.
2 - the big feast day.
Holidays range Mosaic:
1 - the Day of Atonement.
2 - Easter days.
3 - day Sukkot.
Holidays for Sabean:
1 - the fifth and sixth days of the month of April (Eid Abannja).
2 - the seventh day of August (great feast).
3 - the third day of November (small feast).
4 - day festival a Amava unit.
Holidays range Alazerah:
1 - the first Friday of the month of December.
2 - the first Wednesday of the month of April-east.
3 - the twenty-third day to the thirtieth of September east.
4 - on the eighteenth of July east.
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