Commission expects the Federal Court's response within hours

February 7, 2010

Five days to resolve the discriminatory constitutional functions

Talks between the blocks before the parliamentary session .. And the Commission expects the Federal Court's response within hours

بغداد - الصباح BAGHDAD - morning

Presidencies of the meeting yesterday, and the meeting of parliament today, stands in front of the discriminatory choices in resolving the issue are excluded from nomination for election, either to resolve the file during the remaining five days to start a propaganda campaign

Which called for a meeting yesterday of the three presidencies, or no confidence in the event of them failing to find a legal solution to the crisis that is still the forefront of the political scene, with legislative elections on the doors.

Is scheduled to hold the House of Representatives this afternoon a special meeting to discuss the crisis exclude candidates, preceded by intensive meetings between the political blocs in a bid to formulate a unified stance towards the file exclude candidates covered by the procedures of accountability and justice.

A source in the Presidency of the Council of Representatives: The parliament will discuss at its meeting today issuing a binding decision of the Commission provides for the discriminatory importance of resolving the file excluded from the elections this week, which corresponds to the presidencies of the content of the meeting yesterday.

The source added the "morning" because otherwise you may decide Council of Representatives may withdraw confidence from the Appeals Chamber.

The three presidencies had called at the end of meeting earlier in the day, to resolve the issue of excluded before the start of advertising campaigns, with emphasis on the importance of holding elections as scheduled on the seventh of March.

During the meeting, attended by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and parliament speaker, Dr. Iyad al-Samarrai, the Chief Justice Medhat al-Mahmoud, in addition to the Deputy Speaker Sheikh Khalid al-Attiyah, Deputy Prime Minister, Dr. Rose Nouri Shaways, research on the implications of discriminatory decision of the Commission on the excluded.

Agreed presidencies, according to a government statement received "morning," a copy of, the need to resolve file excluded according to the law and provide explanations to the discriminatory, and to consider the appeals by the evidence presented, on the last tasks to be completed no later than the start of the electoral campaign, scheduled for Friday, in order to allow the Election Commission to terminate its proceedings within the deadline for the elections.

And was a member of the House of Representatives Rashid al-Azzawi has announced that the "Committee for Justice and Accountability parliamentary consideration of the files are excluded from the elections reduced the number from 511 to 181.

Rashid said in a press statement: "Anyone see the deportees did not come out, unless he was satisfied with the resolution passed right through the documents carried by", as he put it, but the Chief Election Commissioner Faraj al-Haidari said that the names are not reduced, However, there are political entities replaced the names of a number of candidates excluded.

Expected Haidari in the context of his statement to the representative of the "morning" Omar Abdel-Latif, said the Commission received on Sunday or tomorrow, the Federal Court's response on the information about what the Appeals Chamber decision.

For its part, revealed the Supreme National Commission for Accountability and Justice is conducting interviews with the discriminatory resolving the issue of the excluded, reaffirming that the functions of the body is limited to coverage is unlikely to take action on accountability measures or not.