Mahmoud Othman: the political blocs have to be held accountable deputies absent from the meetings of the House of Representatives Friday, February 10, 2012 14:49

Mahmoud Othman: the political blocs have to be held accountable deputies absent from the meetings of the House of Representatives
Friday, February 10, 2012 14:49


Baghdad {: News} Euphrates called the Kurdistan Alliance MP Mahmoud Othman, to take measures to to reduce absence from the meetings of Parliament House.

Osman said in a statement to the Euphrates News Agency {} on Friday that "the repetition of the deputies from the meetings of the House of Representatives a negative impact on the political situation of the country as well as the adoption of important laws into law the financial budget for the year 2012."

"The day before had been scheduled to discuss the budget for the year 2012 and completed them, to vote, but the lack of a quorum prevented to do so."

Othman said that boiled "the political blocs to give them orders deputies to attend sessions of Parliament, as well as activation of Parliament for the punishment of the law are frequently absent and illegal for these sessions."

The House of Representatives Iraq had agreed earlier in the application of measures to reduce the absent member is to cut the proportion of the monthly salary in the event of absences without a legitimate excuse or sick leave, and if repeated absences of five sessions, foreshadowing, and miss the ten sessions of the legislative term of the one addressed formally and displays it to the Council of Representatives for action.

Some observers expect that the replacement of members of the law if implemented will create a list of differences between the National Alliance and the fact that the Iraqi leader Iyad Allawi's Iraqi List will include the law because of his absence to attend frequent meetings of the Council of Representatives.

Paragraph II of Article 18 of the Rules of Procedure of the House of Representatives that "the Presidency directed in case of repeated absences without a legitimate excuse five consecutive or ten times is a row during the annual session a warning in writing to the member absent invites him to commit to attend in the case of non-compliance with the Presidency presents the matter to the Council at the request of the Commission. / End 2 ".


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This is a great article! I hope they pass a law that has some teeth in it to keep the parties from disruping the GOI.

Thanks Helend!

Thanks Helen...I hope they pass this...They need to be held accountable..Not showing up is just plain Wrong!!!!!!!!!! No excuses...They already have enough holidays.

parothead wrote:This is a great article! I hope they pass a law that has some teeth in it to keep the parties from disruping the GOI.

Thanks Helend!

Amen to that!

gemini5 wrote:Thanks Helen...I hope they pass this...They need to be held accountable..Not showing up is just plain Wrong!!!!!!!!!! No excuses...They already have enough holidays.

And they are highly paid to do nothing

helend wrote:

gemini5 wrote:Thanks Helen...I hope they pass this...They need to be held accountable..Not showing up is just plain Wrong!!!!!!!!!! No excuses...They already have enough holidays.

And they are highly paid to do nothing

Political crybabies. geesh..... They got the job, they should do it. I know how quick I'd be fired from my job at the shop if I didn't show up.

Reflection wrote:

helend wrote:

gemini5 wrote:Thanks Helen...I hope they pass this...They need to be held accountable..Not showing up is just plain Wrong!!!!!!!!!! No excuses...They already have enough holidays.

And they are highly paid to do nothing

Political crybabies. geesh..... They got the job, they should do it. I know how quick I'd be fired from my job at the shop if I didn't show up.

Exactly! They got much better than they think, just get something done and the whole country can live like kings. At least they have the resources to get things back together in the country and be better than they ever imagined.