Expectations of a heated session in parliament today
11/08/2011
Huani «morning»: No amendments to the law of the Policy Board
of Baghdad - Shaima Rashid
sources expected a representative to witness the parliamentary session today, debates heated between the House of Representatives, after it announced the inclusion of discussion of the National Council of the Supreme policies strategy on the agenda of the meeting.
The head of the Legal Committee of the House Khalid Shwani in a statement the "morning": "We are in the Legal Committee and agreed to the inclusion of the law of the Policy Board within the work of the House of Representatives today .. and will be read the first reading as it is without change as stated by the Presidency of the Republic."
and denied Shwani " make any amendment to the law, and will present the law to read as it is without modification and will be edited by the second reading. "
middle of this picture, varied views of MPs in a press statement on the Policy Board and its role and powers, where the MP said the National Coalition on foot: "The political blocs obliged to pass the Law Council senior policy in Parliament, being a part of an agreement of Arbil. "
He added, "The Council has been agreed in the Erbil, and must be binding on all the blocks passing, and this is the right of the Iraqi List."
But he said: "The question and that has raised controversy in the area of powers of the Council, since it needs a common vision between the blocks to determine these powers. "
For its part, confirmed the MP for the Liberal block the names of al-Moussawi said the draft law "includes violations of the law and constitutional."
She explained that "The draft gave the Council powers executive, legislative, judicial, and included legislation to the Council the Federal Court Act, and this is contrary to the Constitution, "noting that" the draft, other than as stated in the Constitution that the Iraqis are equal, involved a breach of the balance in the composition of the Council, in terms of provincial representation and the representation of the blocks. "
In turn, called National Alliance MP Mohammed Saadoun Chihod House members not to vote on the draft Law on the Council strategic policies as contrary to the Constitution and the general trend towards Limbering government.
said Chihod in a statement quoted by his press office: "The members of the House of Representatives are required not to vote on the draft Law on the Council Policy strategy being contrary to the Constitution, which did not refer in any material from it to so the Council as well as being contrary to the agreements of the political blocs on Limbering Ministers. "
However, the MP for the Iraqi List of Staff Zebari said: "What appears in the media of the notes exchanged between the Iraqi and the State of law, will not affect the pass, "noting that" the Supreme Council policies listed in the agreement of Arbil, and what is included in this agreement will pass. "
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