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Parliament tries today pass a law "Federal Court" despite the "rule of law"
Baghdad / Wael grace
Being the House of Representatives today a new attempt to pass a law of the Federal Court, which still faces conservative than State of Law bloc, favored the possibility of passing the law Congress through repeat the scenario of vote on the law defining the mandates of the three presidencies, which was last Saturday.
Despite the State of Law bloc denied the inclusion of the issue of voting on the law of the Federal Court on the agenda of today's meeting and replace it with another paragraph, confirmed the decision of Parliament to vote on the Federal Court on the agenda.
Does not rule out the Liberal bloc in Parliament to be re scenario session last Saturday during which he managed Representatives up 170 votes to pass a law to determine the mandate of the three presidencies only two sessions despite the withdrawal of the state of law and trying to breach the quorum for the hearing.
The MP said the bloc Jawad Alcihla in a statement to the "long" All possibilities are open in the parliamentary session, "It is possible to approve the law by repeating scenario vote on the law of the mandate of the three presidencies, which was Saturday," but at the same time acknowledged the existence of difficult to pass law "because he needed two-thirds majority of members of Parliament and is difficult to verify without the support of the state of law" ..
He Alshahyla that "the rule of law is still the only party objecting to a law of the Federal Court, while all the other blocks in agreement passed," and accused Maliki's bloc to block the law was passed without justification real, "but it does not want to lose the Federal Court in its current form because it supports resolutions Prime Nuri al-Maliki government and head of state law. "
Does not show Alcihla optimistic on today's session to pass the law of the Federal Court, and likely to fail Representatives in acknowledging the need to 217 votes, which is difficult to achieve without vote Maliki's bloc, which has 89 votes, while stressing that this week will approve the budget bill as it fits with the demands of political blocs, including the Sadrists, who asked to be part of the distribution of income to the people within the budget items.
The Constitution provides that the enactment of the Federal Court is through a vote in the House of Representatives by a majority of two thirds of the Chamber of Deputies 325 a 217 deputies.
It denied the Attorney for the State of Law bloc Shaker Darraji yesterday that vote will be on the Federal Court Act drawer within the agenda of the meeting of the Council of Representatives, and explained that the paragraph was replaced for a vote on an alternative to the Deputy Aifan al-Issawi, who was killed by demonstrators targeted in Fallujah last week. "
But decision of the House of Representatives MP Mohamed Khaldi said yesterday in connection with the "long" that "vote on the approval of the Federal Court Act is within the Council's agenda for Monday as well as a paragraph replace MP Eifan al-Issawi." The edict mass does not object to the passage of the Federal Court Act in general, but objected to some articles of the law.
He said in a statement to the "long" We demand that they must enjoy the right of law scholars veto, as opposed to the voting mechanism on decisions within the court where it can not be a unanimous vote, but suggested that the majority (...), in addition to certain formulations in the paragraphs of the law ".
In the meantime, intends to block Iraqi attend the parliament session today despite the decision the day before yesterday to suspend its presence sessions, and between Iraqi MP Shaalan Quran that "Iraq will return for the suspension entering the Council of Representatives while voting on the law of the Federal Court, returned to pass a law court is one demands of the demonstrators. "
Shaalan said in a statement to the "long" yesterday that "the rule of law is the only party refusing to pass a law of the Federal Court, accusing Maliki's coalition to block all important laws."
The Iraqi bloc announced the day before yesterday comment attend meetings of the Council of Representatives to protest the government's policy and "suppressed" the demonstrators and their rights, and stressed at the same time it will attend meetings to be allocated exclusively for "no confidence" in Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, or discuss the demands of the demonstrators.
He succeeded the House of Representatives in the middle of last December to approve the law of the Supreme Judicial Council in the presence of 175 deputies despite the withdrawal of state law, but he has failed more than once to vote on the Federal Court Act. The head of the Legal Committee Khalid Shwani in an interview earlier to (long-Presse) The "House Speaker Osama Najafi decided during the seventh meeting of the second legislative term of the year legislative third postpone the vote on the law of the Federal Court to-day parliament session that will be held on Saturday, (26 of January 2013), which was postponed to today's session. Huani added that "the postponement came at the request of the Commission to make way for an agreement on some paragraphs of the law."
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