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Parliament to read policies council draft law
11/08/2011 13:18
Baghdad, Aug. 11 (AKnews) – The first reading of the draft law for the National Council for Strategic Policies (NCSP) was passed in parliament today.
Kurdistan Blocs Coalition (KBC) MP Shuwan Mohammed told AKnews that according to the 10-point draft bill issued by the Iraqi presidency to parliament, the new council will contain 17 members.
Fellow KBC deputy Fateh Daraghayee however, said the number of council members has not yet been decided.
What is certain is that the Prime Minister, the deputy PM, the President and the Vice Presidents will make up the board along with representatives of the four main political blocs and the Judicial council, Daraghayee affirmed.
The Kurdish MP also explained that any proposal that wins 80% of the new council’s votes must be enforced regardless of the party proposing it.
According to the bill the council will be effective for a four-year term and whose extension is subject to the approval of the political blocs.
In October 2010, Kurdistan Region President Massoud Barzani launched an initiative, the Erbil agreement, by which all Iraqi political leaders agreed to form a national-partnership government thus bringing to an end a 9-month political impasse over the country’s three key executive seats of power.
Under the Erbil agreement, Maliki and Iraqi President Jalal Talabani – a Kurd – were to retain their offices for a second term, and al-Iraqiya List leader Ayad Allawi, who secured a narrow majority of votes in the elections, would head a new executive body called the National Council for Strategic Policies (NCSP) as an attempt to maintain balance.
The council is expected to be responsible for drafting internal, foreign, economic and security policies, as well as forming strategies for managing the country’s natural resources and energy.
With the NCSP still unformed since the new government was inaugurated in December last year, the al-Iraqiya List has repeatedly accused Maliki - whose list only overcame Allawi’s by controversially forming a super-bloc, the National Coalition (NC), with the Sadrist Current following the elections - of not abiding to the terms of the Erbil agreement.
In an attempt to broker peace between the feuding political blocs once more, President Talabani brought the leaders of the political factions together recently in his Baghdad home for a series of talks intended to resolve the outstanding points of contention between them.
The draft NCSP law read in Baghdad today, stems from this latest round of reconciliatory talks.
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11/08/2011 13:18
Baghdad, Aug. 11 (AKnews) – The first reading of the draft law for the National Council for Strategic Policies (NCSP) was passed in parliament today.
Kurdistan Blocs Coalition (KBC) MP Shuwan Mohammed told AKnews that according to the 10-point draft bill issued by the Iraqi presidency to parliament, the new council will contain 17 members.
Fellow KBC deputy Fateh Daraghayee however, said the number of council members has not yet been decided.
What is certain is that the Prime Minister, the deputy PM, the President and the Vice Presidents will make up the board along with representatives of the four main political blocs and the Judicial council, Daraghayee affirmed.
The Kurdish MP also explained that any proposal that wins 80% of the new council’s votes must be enforced regardless of the party proposing it.
According to the bill the council will be effective for a four-year term and whose extension is subject to the approval of the political blocs.
In October 2010, Kurdistan Region President Massoud Barzani launched an initiative, the Erbil agreement, by which all Iraqi political leaders agreed to form a national-partnership government thus bringing to an end a 9-month political impasse over the country’s three key executive seats of power.
Under the Erbil agreement, Maliki and Iraqi President Jalal Talabani – a Kurd – were to retain their offices for a second term, and al-Iraqiya List leader Ayad Allawi, who secured a narrow majority of votes in the elections, would head a new executive body called the National Council for Strategic Policies (NCSP) as an attempt to maintain balance.
The council is expected to be responsible for drafting internal, foreign, economic and security policies, as well as forming strategies for managing the country’s natural resources and energy.
With the NCSP still unformed since the new government was inaugurated in December last year, the al-Iraqiya List has repeatedly accused Maliki - whose list only overcame Allawi’s by controversially forming a super-bloc, the National Coalition (NC), with the Sadrist Current following the elections - of not abiding to the terms of the Erbil agreement.
In an attempt to broker peace between the feuding political blocs once more, President Talabani brought the leaders of the political factions together recently in his Baghdad home for a series of talks intended to resolve the outstanding points of contention between them.
The draft NCSP law read in Baghdad today, stems from this latest round of reconciliatory talks.
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