04-05-2013 | (Voice of Iraq) - Add a comment -
Erbil, May 4 / May (PNA) - independent Kurdish MP Mahmoud Othman, Saturday, that federalism is the best option for Iraq at the moment, calling on the government not to oppose the requirement in the event received the highest number of votes to be on the basis of geographic or administrative.
Osman said that "the option of federalism in Iraq is the best at this time to resolve political differences among the provinces and territories and the government in Baghdad," adding that "the federal requirement is consistent with the Constitution, because Iraq is a federal, federal."
Osman explained that he "must be implemented as demanded by the people, but must be based on geographic or administrative, and not on a sectarian basis," calling on the government to "lack of demand in the event of opposition won the highest number of votes" If you were voting on it.
He added that "we must wait to see the result in the questionnaire provinces Almatsamh about the options and who can get the highest number of votes even taken into consideration."
The MP Shaalan Karim one of the biggest supporters of the demonstrations in Salah al-Din announced that squares sit in the province began distributing tens of thousands of forms on the protesters and residents of a questionnaire reviewed the three options, while warned Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, from entering the country in the "endless war" if the department to regions on the "sectarian basis."
It is noteworthy that Article 119 of the Constitution stipulates that, every province or more, the composition of the territory at the request of the referendum it, offers one of two ways: first request of one third of members in each of the provincial councils intending to form a region, and secondly the request of ten voters in each of the governorates intending to form a region.
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