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The Last Chance for the Election Law ...

November 5, 2009

The election law before the last chance Continue efforts to agree on the issue of Kirkuk


I returned to parliamentary sources the next few hours as "critical" to decide on the electoral law, after you select the Election Commission on Thursday at the latest for approval for National Merit in January 16 next year.

Started yesterday evening and energetic moves by the Presidency of the parliament and political leaders to unify the positions on the election law for a vote on Thursday, in a time when representatives of the Arabs and Turkmen in Kirkuk to the government's call to postpone the elections to maintain in the absence of Parliament was able to reach a compromise, while urging the Kurdistan Alliance to resolve the law was passed not to take optional delay or return to the 2005 Act is rejected by most political forces.

Sources in the presidency of the Parliament: "The Presidency and a number of political leaders embarked on moves to agree on elections law. The sources said the" morning "that" objective of these moves Hoaltousel unified view on the election of Kirkuk, "alluding to the existence of new proposals, refused to disclose its contents.

It is said that the Election Commission on Thursday set the deadline for receipt of election law in order to hold elections on schedule in January 16 next year. Meanwhile, the U.S. Attorney Abd Mutlaq al-Jubouri for "directed at Arab and Turkmen of Kirkuk to demand the government use its constitutional powers to postpone the city elections in the event of failure to reach a compromise solution by the Parliament.

The United Nations has submitted a proposal on Kirkuk provides for the first three paragraphs of the election timing with the rest of provinces and the second allocation of two Taweidien Arabs and Turkmen, and the third to form a committee to audit the register of voters and the increase in the elections and returned to Kirkuk after year. in turn, warned the Kurdistan Alliance MP Sirwan Zahawi the risk of postponement of general elections or the adoption of the 2005 elections in the event of the failure of Parliament to reach a compromise on Kirkuk node in the new electoral legislation, noting "The arrival of the discussions between representatives of the political blocs and the Legal Committee on a dead end," as he put it.

Middle of this picture, revealed MP Abbas al-Bayati of the new proposal said that he enjoys most of the admissibility of parliamentary blocs on the issue of Kirkuk in the elections the next parliamentary and paves the way for a vote on the law

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