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Calls for commitment to the law of political parties
03/08/2011
With the start of the House of Representatives discussing
Baghdad, Omar Abdul-Latif
Escalated claims to abide by the law of the parliamentary political parties, although some lawmakers expressing concerns about the lack of commitment by some parties. This comes at a time proceeded to the House of Representatives to discuss law and completed its first reading yesterday. He said a member of the Legal Committee of the Board of Deputies, Deputy bright Naji Abboud: "The law of parties is of great importance to harmony with the democratic transformations that has gripped Iraq after the fall of the regime after it was there is a one-party system. "He noted that" after 2003 and there was a multi-partisan, but even this has become a multi-disciplined and disorganized, and became not know the sources of funding for the party or parties linked. Thus we see that the bill of parties of the important projects being built by the constitutional institutions, governmental and otherwise. " He said in a statement the "morning", that "the importance of this law lies in the statement of how to establish those political parties and bodies and sources of funding and the number of its members and quality and who is running this party so that it can be no clear vision of the government and the Iraqi street, on the existing parties," he said. " We are with the multiplicity of parties, but according to a mechanism and methodology incorrect ", saying:" We are in the Legal Committee had put forward this project to discuss, but there are many of the observations it and therefore will jot down those notes to be taken into consideration. "and the most important observations that were discussed by the Committee in this law , between Abboud said, "Through our audit of the system, we note that there is interference by government authorities in many of the leaves of incorporation and the issues dealing with the subject of the parties, and therefore we want the entity granting such leave," but he also said: "It is better that there be a An independent Electoral Commission or the other to be agreed with the Council of Representatives to exercise the grant of such licenses for that according to existing law, the Justice Department is granted leave, and that this ministry of the Government, There can be guaranteed neutrality of those parties, as well as to deal impartially with all those parties and non-selectivity in dealing. "He continued:" The law needs to be no study Mmahsh him out a mature project in line with those changes, in addition to seeking to hold several workshops with civil society organizations, parties and heads of political blocs. Because we consider that there must be agreement on this project and the satisfaction of all parties as is consistent with the democratic, federal Iraq's new. "And MP for the Liberal bloc was" no doubt that this law when it is prescribed and vote it into law the duty of the implementation, application, and there are rights and obligations, as that there are rights to be given to the parties in its composition and its statement and sources of funding, announced as there will be sanctions and obligations of this project can be borne by or issued against those parties in the case of any violation of this law, so it must be bound by this law if the legislation because it is enforceable and the application after approval The vote is the argument. " He added by saying: "We are keen to go out in the law in an integrated manner according to the vision is correct and in line with the Constitution and laws of the State of Iraq."
For his part, independent MP, Sheikh Sabah al-Saadi: "we have given the proposed law on political parties signed a 150 deputies, members of the House of Representatives and the law of great importance, signed by so many members." Said Saadi, "We hope that the Presidency and the Legal Committee to resolve this issue quickly on the grounds that the political situation in Iraq is still a precarious situation, and the organization of political action is very confused, well that the text of the Constitution in one of its articles on the need for a legislation regulating political action and party in Iraq. " And Saadi said in a statement the "morning", that "the law which we have presented includes material head in the process of formation of parties and composition and to obtain passage of a party and reference in granting the license is the Electoral Commission for elections as well as in this law we have stated that the most important priority to monitor the growth of the money to the parties The sources of these funds, funding and relationships with the parties, State, and how to be. " He continued: "The current law is different from the draft law submitted by the Government, considering that there are loose ends left by the government in its law .. But we have made the law the same ends closed is open to interpretation and contains penalties of up to dissolve the party and attended if they are found linked third-party or in the event of being funded from abroad or in the case of the growth of his money at the expense of the authorities and state funds, "adding that the law prevented the Full to deal the party with the state in financial investments, directly or indirectly. "It is said that the" morning "was published last month, the text of the law of political parties, the rate that has been read the first reading by the House yesterday. in turn, said a member of the legal spectrum Mustafa MP from the Kurdish bloc of change that the committee at the last meeting prepared a report on the draft law on political parties, and members of the committee expressed their comments, formality is not beyond the surface stuff and we reported him to the Presidency. He noted that the "legislation such as this law is important during this phase for a number of considerations including the organization of party work, not to the country remains in chaos and then regulate the issue of insurance and financial disclosure of financial sources of parties, as well as the organization of party work, in addition to that as long as the party is one of the important means of representative democracy, and until this moment there is no system of representative democracy on earth without a party, where one of the chief pillars of the system of Deputies must be the organization of work if the law was to regulate other activities of life there must be a law to regulate political work. Increased Mustafa said, "We must distinguish between the two sides of practical and theoretical Valenzera of the law becomes effective from the date of publication or issuance in the Official Gazette, as it should be bound in all parts of the country and its failure to perform constitutes a crime, but unfortunately in Iraq, the laws are not enforced, especially by some parties or influential, but may be implemented on the other and not implemented on some of the other, so the lesson is not legislation of laws, but to apply it on the ground, expressing lack of optimism about the implementation of the law of parties. Mustafa said that "Parliament should monitor the response of the executive bodies of law enforcement in the case of non-implementation of those laws must be based its procedures and accounting controls of the question, question, and down to the withdrawal of confidence from the official concerned." As a member of the Legal Committee Hassan Jubouri has confirmed "the existence of separate blocks of political laws and legislation at the aperture."
Jubouri said the "morning": that "the purpose of the legislation, the law is moving away from the formation of parties based on sectarian or ethnic," noting that such a thing could not serve some of the parties, expressing the expected accession of understanding and mutual accommodation between the blocks to the legislation of the law of parties. He noted that "the importance of this law lies in the process of organizing work parties and entities, many of the country and the organization of the political process," stressing "the need to comply with the law by the parties, if enacted," expected that there would be opposition from some parties to this law.
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