November 8, 2009
Abdul-Mahdi and Hashimi lend themselves to accelerate the adoption of the electoral law
بغداد - الصباح BAGHDAD - morning
Urged Vice President Adel Abdul Mahdi and Tariq al-Hashimi to accelerate the adoption of the electoral law. Abdul-Mahdi and al-Hashemi held a meeting at the headquarters last night, in search of a number of important issues. Hashemi expressed by a presidential statement of concern about how to deal with the deadline for parliamentary elections future in light of the vote on the election law until yesterday. He pointed out that
This situation will show the country to a constitutional problem, and efforts should devote themselves to address the technical election law, not political rhetoric is a call we made through the political council for national security.
"Hashemi announced his disagreement with the privileges accorded to members of the House and privileges guaranteed by law members of the House of Representatives last.
He said: "The presidency council has exhausted all constitutional procedures to reject the law, and that according to the constitution, remain the last word to the House of Representatives voted on this law," he said: "We do not agree to these privileges, and the views were identical and we have spoken on how to remedy this issue in the future through the introduction of this paragraph in the proposed constitutional amendments so as not to be any leadership position in the country working on the legislation of laws on the future status and privileges.
"He said al-Hashemi said there is no divergence of views between him and Dr. Abdul-Mahdi, particularly in the file election law . For his part, Abdul-Mahdi said "The meeting was fruitful and constructive which have been addressed to many of the files on the internal and regional situation."
He continued: "We now stand on the threshold of elections, which are very important, and we need to make absolutely sure that these elections will be fair and transparent, that, the Presidency Council, the paper bases of voting behavior, which received wide acceptance in the House of Representatives and the House of Representatives hope to discuss this paper as soon as it is a basic guarantee for the proper conduct of the elections
