Friday, November 27, 2009

A member of the Iraqi parliament to deny the postponement of the elections next March

A member of the Iraqi parliament to deny the postponement of the elections next March

Iraq - Parliament - Elections

27/11/2009

Karbala, November 27 (AKnews) - The deputy in the Iraqi parliament, on Friday, that the parliamentary elections will be held as scheduled, dismissing postponed to March next year.

The MP said the block (independent) member of the parliament's legal appearance of Hussein al-Hakim told the Kurdish news agency (AKnews) today, that "the next parliamentary elections will be held as scheduled in the atheist of the month of January of 2010 as part of the constitutional period set by the federal parliament with an agreement all the political blocs, denying postponed to the month of March he said. "

He added that "the Electoral Commission for elections with the general lines of the law and work procedures, and which the Vice-President Tareq al-Hashemi did not stop its work."

He said the doctor "I think that Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi will not dare to veto the amended law that once again it will result in a coup d'etat of public opinion which will be against him this time, considering that the position of vice president is for all Iraqis and not for one category or the other."

The Iraqi parliament had been revised election law vetoed by Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi especially with regard to a paragraph has been displaced outside Iraq to restore law to the Presidency of the Republic for approval in order to take the Commission to undertake preparations for the electoral process scheduled for next year.

The spokesman Kazem Abdul Ilah al-Hashemi told (AKnews) said on Thursday that "Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi met with leaders of political blocs and members of the Electoral Commission and a delegation from the United Nations," noting that the delegations had "provided guarantees access for all the provinces of their rights and to be fair to all the Iraqis. "

He added that al-Hashemi "waiting for written assurances from the Electoral Commission and the agencies that put these safeguards in order to ensure the rights of all Iraqis and the provinces without any harm."

He pointed out that al-Hashemi "will take a positive attitude of the amended election law in the event of receipt of such written guarantees."
Kadhem was told earlier that al-Hashemi has been studying the amendments made by the Iraqi parliament to the law with a number of his advisers in order to take a decisive stand it.

aoknews