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Independent High Electoral Commission announced the elections on Tuesday, for approval of the Board of Commissioners on both entities and monitors the registration of political blocs for the upcoming parliamentary elections scheduled to be held in the year 2014.
He said UNHCR spokesman Safaa al-Moussawi, said in a statement, received a (Presse term) a copy of it, "The Board of Commissioners approved the system and procedures for the accreditation of agents and observers."
Moussawi said, "The Board of Commissioners also approved the system and procedures for the registration of political entities and coalitions to elect members of the Iraqi parliament in its next session, which begins in 2014."
The Parliament has committed the Electoral Commission for elections, in (the seventh of October 2013 present), to conduct parliamentary elections history defined the end of April 2013 the next, while recommended updating the voter register and instruct the government, regardless of financial dues to the Commission, stressed the need to vote on election law (thirtieth of October now), max, or refer to the 2009 election law in case of failure to vote on the new law.
The Iraqi Council of Representatives held, on the seventh of October now, its the 26 of the first legislative term of the fourth legislative year under the chairmanship of its President, Osama Najafi, and the presence of 229 deputies, to vote on the proposed law to amend the law on parliamentary elections.
The positions of the political blocs are still far apart on the electoral system to be adopted, and if it supports the open list or closed, the circuit one or multiple, as well as how to calculate the votes, and other differences, though everyone agrees on the need for election timing nor.
He urged the UN envoy to Iraq, Nikolai Mladenov, in (the sixth of October 2013 present), the political parties all, to reach a "compromise and appropriate" to the draft electoral law ", returned to the involvement of the components of society are all a" crucial "for the holding of parliamentary elections timing nor constitutionally defined.
This means closed list system that provides political entity list Bmarchah and after ratification by the UNHCR and the end of the deadline for electoral lists and the coalition can not be political entity to change the order of names on the list and announce the winners of the candidates on the list according to the number of votes obtained by the entity and in numerical order contained down menu.
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