Tuesday, November 24, 2009

The Office of the elections: the election date will be postponed for a month or two months behind schedule

The Office of the elections: the election date will be postponed for a month or two months behind schedule

2009-11-24 15:32:09

BAGHDAD (Iba) .. Electoral Commission insisted that the elections for the next parliamentary elections will not take place on schedule, is likely postponed for a month or two months behind schedule.

It was due to hold elections on the eighteenth of January next year. Commission President Faraj al-Haidari's visit to the House of Representatives to the headquarters of the commission "in all cases, we can not dare elections in January."

Haidari said we have asked the Ministry of Commerce provide us with records in 2005 officially, adding that the population of the Electoral Commission indicates that the population of Iraq in 2005 to 28 million and 385 الف and 534 people, but the Commission want to receive the figures are official from the Ministry of Commerce.

For his part, said Commission member Judge Qassem slave there were no problems applying the law in any manner whatsoever, stressing the calculation of one seat per 100 thousand Iraqis, he postponed the election for a month or two months behind schedule.

And the slave that the extra seats will be distributed to the provinces, do not count towards any increase in the population of the province, if in excess of 2.8%, indicating that the minority seats will be part of the seats in the provinces.

The President of the Legal Committee at the House of Representatives Bahaa al-Nay to a defect in the forthcoming elections can not bear the House of Representatives or the Commission alone, but money will be all.

Araji and that there was unfairness will fall on some provinces, the number of parliamentary seats Nmstdricka saying we will try to be less as possible and we will try to address that in a technical collaboration with the Office of the elections.

In this context, he Chairman of the Board of Deputies Iyad al-Samarrai said the provinces of Kurdistan and Baghdad are the beneficiary of the new amendment to the electoral law, noting that other provinces will decrease their share of parliamentary seats

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