November 1, 2009
The Presidency of the parliament planned to introduce election law to a vote today.
Barzani refuses to give special status of Kirkuk, and the 35 deputies calling for postponement of elections in the province
بغداد - الصباح BAGHDAD - morning
Presidency of the Council of Representatives intends to introduce legislation to a vote in the elections today's meeting.
As President of the Parliament refused to Kurdistan, Massoud Barzani, giving Kirkuk a special status in the elections, 35 deputies called for postponement of the National Merit in the province.
Omar al-Mashhadani announced the Press Secretary to the President of Parliament for the "morning" the determination of the Presidency Council to submit the election law to vote, that the voting will be on all the proposals submitted on Kirkuk.
In Arbil, the Kurdish regional leader said during his meeting with Nicolas Trophy Swedish Ambassador to Iraq in Salaheddin resort yesterday, not to accept grant any province in the privacy of the election and distinguished from the rest of the provinces.
It was during the meeting covered the latest developments on the political situation in the Iraqi arena and the relations between Sweden and the Kurdistan region and ways to consolidate, in addition to the pending issues between central government and provincial government.
Barzani said the Swedish ambassador to the problems of the electoral law, highlighting the outstanding issues between Baghdad and Erbil, which emphasized region's commitment to a permanent constitution, to resolve differences and problems and ways to find solutions to all problems. For his part, the Kurdistan Alliance is his insistence on not excluding Kirkuk in the coming elections and introduced special laws.
The MP said Rauf Osman told a news conference with members of the cluster: "The holding of elections on time popular demand and legal, which emphasizes the alliance during its meetings and meetings with other blocs." Uthman added: "The Kurdish Alliance insists that Kirkuk province, like the rest of the other provinces, and should not be excluded Awadkhalha in special laws.
Othman said that "the Kurdistan Alliance showed great flexibility for the sake of higher interest, while keeping up who wants to disrupt the elections in the present draft illegal alien to the spirit of democracy and fair elections."
For his part, Deputy Bayazid Hassan at the conference: "There are many parties want to postpone the elections does not want to open list, and thus want to sabotage the political process and to return Iraq to the pre-2003", at a time in which it pointed Rep. Abraham to complete that "if there is no agreement the new law Vsissar to the old law, which requires a presidential decree for adoption at the elections.
MP Ismail thanked the mass was confirmed, "the letter of Mr. Ammar al-Hakim heads the Supreme Council to the President of the Kurdistan Regional Government the best evidence to support the important actors in the political process for the coalition's position," indicating that "the end of the introduction of the governorate of Kirkuk in the electoral law, is to complicate matters the failure to hold elections on schedule, "as he put it. In contrast, student 35 deputies to postpone elections in Kirkuk for a period of one year. The MP said the Sadr bloc, Fawzi Akram Tarzi said in a statement quoted by news agency Nina:" The MPs also demanded that a committee of the Chamber of Deputies with the assistance the United Nations to maintain audit records, including records of the electorate. "Meanwhile back leadership of the Arab Caucus Iraqi Omar al-Jubouri said what he (the loss of voter registration scandal in 2004) involving political goals. He said" the best solution after this scandal is to postpone elections in Kirkuk for one year to form a committee to look in the records of Kirkuk, which the voter register, "and warned of" holding the elections in Kirkuk, in the absence of a record is true, because this affects the political process in Iraq due to what caused the repercussions could be very damaging. "In turn, MP from the Sadrist bloc Nasir al-Issawi that: "the current atmosphere in the House of Representatives go to the postponement of elections in Kirkuk for one year."
Issawi noted that "the strongest possibilities so far is to postpone elections in Kirkuk for a year." referred to the House of Representatives failed to reach a solution on the issue of Kirkuk, have hampered the adoption of amending the election law the whole. "Meanwhile, MP for the United Iraqi Alliance Abbas al-Bayati, attempts to extend the work of the parliament and to postpone the elections as" a serious blow to democracy and to abort the political process "
And Bayati said: "The moves by some deputies and parliamentary blocs in this direction contrary to the department and sworn in, and unfortunately has to make such calls from members of the House of Representatives should be careful not to break the constitution and uphold the national principles," adding tt "advocates the extension of work of the parliament of the Iraqi people given the choice between two options, Ahalihama over, either the extension and postponement of elections or the adoption of closed-list system in elections. "middle of this picture, revealed sources in the House of Representatives of the existence of proposals to resolve the Kirkuk issue in the election law.
The agency quoted Nina news sources as saying:
"The first proposal provides for a three constituencies in Kirkuk, where the seats are divided according to the current House seats are five seats to Kurds, Arabs and three for three and two of the Turkmen minority."
It continued: "The second proposal is to elect MPs on Kirkuk for a year and they pledge to resign after one year and this year a committee of fact-finding and checking the voter register," noting that "these proposals may pose to the vote because the political blocs have agreed that the number of crystal agreed proposals, and then put to the vote. "In the same regard, MP Turkmenistan Muhammad Mahdi al-Bayati said the Kirkuk issue in the election law and reached a dead end.
And that "all attempts failed after the meetings held last Thursday," explaining that "meetings are currently underway between the Presidency of the Council of Representatives and the United Nations to reach a solution and other proposals."
However, the Accordance Front MP Rashid al-Azzawi is expected to vote on the election law on Monday in the case reached the political parties in the House to compromise.
He said in a press statement: "The law must be the subject of a consensus solution to all political parties without a vote on one of the options put forward due to time constraints," adding that "there is an informal committee formed of representatives of Congress outside the province of Kirkuk to put forward proposals may be successful solutions agree by the political blocs in order to be voted on this law.
