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the closer the date of the elections the Iraqi parties large drafting a new law for the election fits measured and guaranteed victory, which is what is happening now in the House of Representatives, with exchange of Representatives yelling at sessions noisy discusses the law the next parliamentary elections in 2014.
Ironically, that is full of the process politics in Iraq since 2003, is the absence of fixed laws and specific for electoral processes, whether parliamentary elections or provincial elections.
weeks ago, trying to parliament amendments to the election law, the House of Representatives (16) for the year 2005, but the resolution of these amendments is not an easy task, because each Party participant in the political process wants to be the new amendments suitable for popularity.
According to a poll conducted by "talk" with deputies belonging to different blocks on their demands about the shape of the electoral law Parliamentary new show that these demands conflicting with each other, and still the parties are unable to agree on compromise that satisfies everyone.
says Mohammed Kayani, Chairman of the Committee of the Regions and provinces in parliament, a committee charged with conducting the amendments to the election law, for "discussion" that "the political blocs presented their proposals and we on our part we have gathered all in the draft and one to facilitate discussion."
But Kayani recognized the difficulty of find a consensus among the parliamentary blocs big on amendments and says "the political blocs seek to formulate a law suit developed and size, provides a guarantee of victory in the elections or maintain their current positions."
issues prevent dual nationality from running in the elections, and the number of constituencies, and how the distribution of seats, and the way counting and sorting, and the theme of "quota", and the date of the special voting security men were the main points of contention between the main blocs according to Kayani.
gave up a coalition of state law, led by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, his demand that the elections will be according to the closed-list, but he refuses to distribution of votes voters according to a system of "Saint Lego" which has been applied in provincial elections that took place on the twentieth of April last year and lost the party "Islamic call" a lot of votes compared to the elections that preceded it.
says a member of the "coalition of state law," Abbas al-Bayati's "Talk "" The Saint Lego was not successful in the recent elections, and apply large parties were denied access to thousands of the votes of their constituents and should not be relied upon again. "
But the Sadrist movement led by Moqtada al-Sadr supported Saint Lego. He says MP Jawad al-Jubouri, the Liberal bloc, for "discussion" that "Saint Lego gives small blocks and the rest of the candidates individual a chance to win and prevents large parties from monopolizing work in Parliament."
As for the rest of the differences فتطالب block "the Kurdistan Alliance," that the elections will be in accordance with open list that there will be a single electoral constituency in all of Iraq instead of circles multiple.
Ktlta "Iraqi" and "National Alliance" reject circuit per call for that there are 18 constituencies spread over the number of Iraqi provinces, while includes a requirement Sadrist movement in this case that there are circles even multiple within each province.
issue of "quota" of minority religious and ethnic groups in the elections is the other disputed issues, and demands component Yezidi increase "quota" for its one deputy in parliament to five.
while demanding a number of deputies women among them Safiya al-Suhail, an increase "quota" of women from 25% to over 50% of the total number of deputies of the parliament's 325 deputies. On the other proposals, a proposal to prevent persons who hold foreign nationality alongside Iraqi nationality from nomination to election except in the case of abandonment of foreign nationality.
these points of contention and the subsequent long debate between the major parties, has become a familiar phenomenon in the political process preceding each election process conducted in the country.
deputies are independent in Parliament spoke for "discussion" provided no reference to the names of the existence of concerns for the emerging democracy in the country, as long as the essence of democracy represented in the elections is not subject to the law of constant, and that every electoral process conducted require legislation of a new electoral law.
these Concerns also exist with civil society organizations and activists in the field of rights and freedoms and the public, while asking others about the reasons for the phenomenon that keep pace with the political scene.
activist Hanaa Edwar demanded during her speech with "talk" the need to put an end to this and says "the parties separate election law suits its size before the election Just as a person goes to the tailor to separate garment on measured. "
In the first legislative elections gripped Iraq in 2005 acknowledged the political blocs closed list system and make Iraq a single constituency, and negatives known for this electoral system that limits the winners parties large and deprives voters to choose particular candidate and only select list complete without the knowledge of their candidates.
Against the backdrop of public criticism and international way the 2005 elections confirmed the political blocs to a new law for legislative elections, the second took place in March 2010, includes the election mixed, which combines existing open and closed, and Iraq was then 18 constituencies after he was constituency one.
and produced this law cons new was the marginalization of parties and forces small, while أسعفت quota electoral ingredients and ethnic and religious minorities (Shabak, Turkmen and Christians) of marginalization, and increased the influence of political forces large at the expense of small businesses.
former president of the Independent High Commission for Elections Faraj al-Haidari recognizes that the laws of Elections enact according to the wishes of the political blocs large and said the "debate" that "the Commission can not intervene in the work of Parliament, except offer advice and explain theories and electoral mechanisms universally adopted in a democracy."
He drew observers and political analysts, in conversations them with "talk" to the The change that reality depends on intensive efforts are supposed to involve civil society organizations to operate in two directions, the first is by clicking on the current political elites to change the second position and orientation of the Iraqi street through ongoing awareness campaigns to voters.
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