Council to vote on Allawi .. and Dolhaleghanon Taheddb "Federal" If the form of "policy
On: Friday 12/8/2011 7:01
Baghdad / term
voice of the House of Representatives voted in principle to the draft Law on the Council policy strategy, as decided to form a committee to follow up the implementation of Article 140. According to press sources yesterday that "the House of Representatives voted during its meeting of 19 of the legislative year the second headed by Najafi and the presence of 232 deputies, the draft Law on the Council strategic policies in principle, after finishing the first reading, "while a condition of the political blocs not to oppose its provisions and principles with the Iraqi Constitution.
And approved the blocks to walk legislative action and legal completion of second reading and debated in the parliament for a vote once.
while objected deputies of state law on some articles of the draft law, but after listening to the views of the political blocs participated by voting, the fact that the Policy Board is part of the political consensus.
Article III of the Act states that the aim of establishing the Council is to contribute actively in solving the decade that hinder the political process in Iraq and the guidelines of the Supreme policies of the state, and to make recommendations and proposals on legislation and laws and on the reform of the judicial system in accordance with the constitutional contexts.
It also includes terms of reference for the Council to provide proposals for the legislation of laws task in accordance with the constitutional contexts, and discuss the conventions and treaties strategy related to security, defense and the country's sovereignty and opinion, and make proposals to amend the laws in force and in particular of the dissolved Revolutionary Command Council.
The membership of the Council of the President of the Republic and his deputies, the Prime Minister and his deputies, parliament speaker and two deputies, and the President of the Kurdistan region, and the President of the Supreme Judicial Council, two members from all the blocks to the four.
threatened a coalition of state law, on Thursday, by resorting to the Federal Court in the case of voting on the Council of strategic policies, and among some Iraqi MPs and alliances national and Kurdistan assert that the Board is contrary to the Constitution , considered that the vote marks the end of democracy.
The MP said the state law Hussein al-Asadi told a news conference yesterday, "The meeting of the Council of Representatives has seen the first reading of the rules of procedure of the Council of strategic policies" and threatened to "resort to the Federal Court in case the vote on the Board ".
He Asadi that "some Iraqi MPs and members of the National Alliance and the Kurdistan assert that this Council is contrary to the Constitution," adding that "the vote marks the end of democracy in the country," as he put it.
The Asadi that "the agreement for this Council to the Convention on Arbil was political and not constitutionally, "noting that" the House of Representatives is the legislative, regulatory, and can not pass a law the Council of strategic policies without the approval of Parliament. "
He Asadi that "the policy strategy of the State of the jurisdiction of the Council of Ministers, is not entitled to the Policy Board to resolve this role", describing the the "dictatorship lining."
In a related development, the form of Parliament, a committee of more than 30 deputies to monitor the implementation of Article 140 of the Constitution.
as expected MP for the Kurdistan Alliance bloc Chuan Mohamed Taha to increase the members of this Committee, explaining in a statement singled out the "long "yesterday" that these committees useless and will further complicate the situation instead of resolving the crisis and that she was working in coordination with the government, which formed for this purpose. "
and stated that "of all members of the committee, was chosen seven of the Representatives of the Kurds in its membership, while a selection of other members of all the parliamentary blocs, and there is potential to increase the number of members of the committee in the future. "
Taha added that "the task of the Committee which was formed is limited to a follow-up and monitoring Aldaúmah Affairs Committee for the implementation of Article 140 of the Constitution, which follow the Prime Minister of Iraq."
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