November 2, 2009
The proposals and a new bid to resolve the "complex of Kirkuk,"
Al-Maliki and al-Samarrai discuss ways to accelerate the adoption of the electoral law
بغداد - الصباح BAGHDAD - morning
Intensified in the last few hours of meetings and communications with the consensus on what are called "node Kirkuk," in the election law, after the submission of proposals and new insights.
According to sources, the "morning", the Presidency of the Council of Representatives going to put a new proposal to representatives of Kirkuk and the parliamentary blocs to resolve the crisis.
The sources said that the new proposal provides for the adoption of new voter records with the formation of a committee to investigate the facts about population growth made up of ministries (Interior, Planning and Trade and a number of bodies in addition to representatives of Parliament), which works within a specified period, then adjustments are made on the distribution of parliamentary seats in the event of the Commission's report is inconsistent with the results of elections in the province that is a National Merit in all governorates of the date of the decision, with the possibility of granting the Arabs and Turkmen of Kirkuk compensatory seats.
"The two prime ministers and deputies Nuri al-Maliki, Ayad al-Samarrai had met late yesterday evening and discussed according to an official statement received" morning, "a copy of, the latest developments in the political arena and the obstacles facing the adoption of the electoral law and ways of resolving the Kirkuk crisis.
And consider the Co-political alliances for the next stage, and exchanged views on the political process and the prospects for development in order to achieve the aspirations of the Iraqi people.
As part of the connected, the Kurdistan Alliance bloc expressed its reservation on some paragraphs of the proposal, the UN special issue of Kirkuk. The deputy chairman of the cluster Saadi Barzanji said in a statement quoted by the agency Nina news:
"The proposed cut into four districts of Kirkuk, by calling for the adoption of the 1957 census and according to the current administrative border," pointing out that "districts, which are cut off by the proposed Kifri and Chamchamal and Klar and Tuz."
proposal involves the United Nations to form a committee of the House of Representatives to work with the Office of elections, the United Nations to set standards of the voter register will be the future, after review and audit of the increase in the basis of available sources including the census in 1957 within the administrative borders of Kirkuk, and also provides the allocation of seats Taweidien the Arabs and Turkmen, and give the two lists, which were receiving the greatest number of votes from the Arab and Turkmen components ,
To conduct the elections in Kirkuk on January 16 next with the rest of the provinces adopt the current register of voters for 2009.
indicated that the Speaker had announced in parliament yesterday the existence of problems in the electoral law has not been agreed upon so far, "adding" the continuation of attempts to reach a compromise by all parties ", and called at the same time the political blocs to exert more effort in this area to vote on the law on Monday.
In Arbil, the Chairman of the Kurdistan Parliament Kamal Karkukli with the President of the Electoral Commission for elections in Iraq during Faraj their meeting yesterday, UNHCR's preparations for the parliamentary elections.
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