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"revealing the need to resolve the discrimination issue in the next few days near the start of a promotional campaign that must start a month before the election date" (That would be today February 7th - one month before March 7th - yep that's the ticket)
February 7, 2010
Three Presidencies calls to resolve the issue of deportees before the start of propaganda
Assertions on the need to hold elections as scheduled And invitations to give more time to check the files
بغداد - الصباح BAGHDAD - morning
Invited the three presidencies in the Appeals to resolve the issue of deportees before the start of election campaigns, stressing the need to hold the elections as scheduled on the seventh of March.
These developments come at a time when continued over the disparate reactions to the Authority's decision to let the discriminatory measures covered by the accountability and justice to go to the polls.
Presidencies meeting
The three presidencies held a meeting in the office of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki yesterday afternoon. During the meeting, attended by Prime Minister and Chairman of the House of Representatives, Dr. Iyad al-Samarrai, the Chief Justice Medhat Mahmud, Deputy Speaker Sheikh Khalid al-Attiyah, Deputy Prime Minister, Dr. Rose Nuri Shaways, search the implications of the discriminatory decision of the Commission on the excluded. presidencies and agreed 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 wanted clarification and consideration by the appeals, according to evidence submitted to it, to be completed by the Appeals duties no later than the start of the electoral campaign to allow the Electoral Commission for elections to function and hold elections on schedule. It is said that the discrimination competent to hear appeals on decisions of the accountability and justice has postponed a decision to veto both formal and substantive until the completion of the electoral process and allow them to participate in the nomination for the elections, and if they won the election according to law No. 16 of 2005 amending the Ajrib to win this right to a seat in the House of Representatives does not entitle them to enjoy the rights and privileges granted by law for members of the House of Representatives pending case. confirms observers that the call of the three presidencies came to cut the road in front of any problems may occur due to the delay, revealing the need to resolve the discrimination issue in the next few days near the start of a promotional campaign that must start a month before the election date.
رفض ضمني لتأجيل النظر بملف المبعدين An implicit rejection of the deported to defer consideration of the file
The head of the House of Representatives has called for giving a specified period to provide the accountability and justice of all documents and evidence against their candidates, and otherwise exclusion is null and void. A statement by the Office of the President of the Chamber of Deputies, said Samarrai, expressed during his meeting with Ed Melkert of the United Nations official working in Iraq, yesterday, about concern over the deportation of the crisis until after the elections after the indicated number of votes obtained by each candidate and so will the atmosphere of exclusion are more severe and prone to politicization. The President of the Parliament the importance of having control and audit at all joints of the electoral process until the final results, noting that the next stage is a stage very sensitive and must be conducting to ensure the utmost transparency and clarity. In a related development Dr Faraj al-Samarrai with the Chairman of the Board of Commissioners of the Electoral Commission during a meeting between them, the Commission's procedures in light of the decisions of the discriminatory and the criteria for election to the displaced inside Iraq and outside it.
الهاشمي يرحب بقرار الهيئة التمييزية Hashemi, welcomed the decision of the Appeals
In turn, counting the Vice-President Tareq al-Hashemi decision taken by the discrimination "is a step in the right direction. He said in a press statement during his visit to Washington:" The problem was related to the legal and legitimate aspect of issuing such resolutions, and on this basis, we are waiting for what comes next from the discrimination is to recognize that the decisions of the accountability and justice were not legitimate from the outset and be reckoned with. He also added he was "not left enough time to form a body of legal accountability and justice, elections are about to start and decisions of that body after its formation begins, not before it did not form so far and therefore not time left to form ", he said, noting that" is absolutely right to suspend the matter after the parliamentary elections so that the next parliament to form a new body ratified, or to reconsider the law, with the exception, the State will fall in legal trouble. and increased Vice President Republic said: "We are with the law and the Constitution and its application with the safety and respect for the political process, and elections are held in a relaxed atmosphere for all, and on this basis, we are with the political process and elections.
خفض عدد المبعدين Reduce the number of deportees
In the meantime, said Rep. Rashid Azzawi, "The committee of Parliamentary accountability and justice to consider files are excluded from the elections reduced the number from 511 to 181. Rachid said in a press statement:" Any person of the deportees came to the Commission had not come out, but is satisfied with the the decision has been issued through the documents carried by ", as he put it, noting that" the discriminatory, you can see the files in a week or ten days and will assist them to open files in communicating information to serve as a parliamentary resolution to be certain Iraqi and without delay in this matter and change the will of the voters in case Iraqi de-candidate. But the chief election commissioner Faraj al-Haidari said that the names have not been reduced, but 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.
The decision to discrimination on the return of the exiles to participate in the election to postpone the Electoral Commission for elections date of the election campaigns of political entities and candidates in the parliamentary elections to 12 of the current month instead of VII, according to the president constituency Hamdiya Husseini, who said in a press statement: The This deferral in order to give enough time for the Federal Court to answer to her inquiries.
الائتلاف الوطني يهدد بمقاطعة الانتخابات National Coalition threatens to boycott election
Within the policy responses to the Appeals Chamber decision, it was revealed MP Mohammed al-Bayati of the National Coalition that "the coalition of all factions threatened not to participate in the elections to come if we were to pass a resolution by the Appeals. Bayati said in a statement quoted by news agency Iba:" The House of Representatives had agreed to all its members to be ready to hold any special meeting. MP Kamal Saadi (a member of a coalition of law) has called the decision to defer consideration of the discriminatory exclusion in the case of proceedings covered by the accountability and justice as "Black Day" in the history of Iraq. Saadi said in a statement quoted by news agency reported that the decision to the "dark day" in Iraq's history that disregard the blood of martyrs and prisoners and all tasted the horrors of the Iraqi Baath buried, adding that the decision was not prosecuted because he did not take any file from the files of the excluded. "The American intervention and clear in this case because this resolution was designed and carried out at home and was by agreement between conspirators inside and out all the enemies of the Iraqi people and the political process, "he described. For his part, Deputy Faleh Al-Fayad:" What was done by the discriminatory came under international pressure and clear, expressed by the Deputy U.S. President and U.S. ambassador to Iraq in violation of the Constitution. He hospitality in a press statement that the National Coalition "will not be allowed to hold elections that are the gateway to the return of the Baath," stressing that the return of the Baathists "red line" can not be bypassed and we will make every effort to prevent it. The Deputy High Nassif (a member of the Iraqi movement) has confirmed that the Appeals Chamber decision to let the body covered by the measures of accountability and justice to participate in the elections was not a decision but postponed for consideration. Nassif, indicated in a press statement that the approach came at the Federal Court on the grounds that to defer consideration of the bill is not based on legal or unconstitutional because the Appeals had to consider the substantive aspect, indicating that it "considered the formal side and had to consider the appeals, but defer consideration and had to issue a decision in this regard. Nassif showed that" such decisions can be contested by to the Constitutional Court and the Appeals Chamber did not find a legal justification that can be based upon, and its resolution led to a state of political confusion, "asserting that the election commission is the executive service is implemented according to the orders on the books issued by the relevant authorities and this could not be implemented This decision therefore approached the Federal Court.
Kurdistan Alliance is taking the position
In the meantime, said the Kurdistan Alliance MP Mahmoud Othman, he should not decide all appeals filed with the Commission on discriminatory decisions covered by the accountability and justice in one go but should be alone.
Othman announced that the Kurdistan Alliance is studying the decision of the Appeals and take a position on it, noting in a press statement that "some media quoted him as false statements about the fragmentary Appeals Chamber decision. On the other hand, hinted Osama Nujaifi MP (member of the Iraqi movement) to the intention of some parties within the parliament to impeach the Appeals for consideration of Tonat excluded from the elections. Nujaifi said in a statement carried by news agency Nina: "That it's possible, and contained and not be ruled out, and I think it is one of the scenarios in the possession of some political blocs," indicating that " objective of this session the House of Representatives today is to disrupt the work of the Commission discriminatory, which means a disruption of the judiciary and the legal non-recognition of Bmarjeitha, this is a dangerous escalation of the crisis and a major setback for the political process, "as he put it.
Nujaifi and stressed "the need to preserve the independence of the judiciary and non-interference in its affairs, because it gives a picture Tafrdia approach began to emerge recently in the Iraqi political scene.
The head of the House of Representatives Iyad al-Samarrai called on parliament to convene a special meeting on Sunday at the request of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to discuss the decision by the Appeals Court to allow the body covered by the decisions of accountability and justice to participate in the forthcoming legislative elections. For its part, said a member of the Supreme Council of the Islamic bloc MP Layla al-Khafaji : "The Appeals Chamber decision was purely a political decision in which the violation is clear and explicit law and the constitution, in addition to violating the views of political circles and public insurers to build the modern Iraqi state and its institutions. and al-Khafaji said in a press statement," The decision violated three articles of the Constitution is Article VII, which prohibits party Saddam's Baath and Article 32 which obliges the State under the auspices of the families of martyrs and victims of the previous regime, and the first priority of care is not to allow the return of the perpetrators of crimes against them to the political forefront as well as Article Thirty-fifth in the third paragraph which prohibits covered by the dimensions of accountability and justice from running for any elections in the country . The MP pointed out that the parliamentary bloc of Virtue cream Yacoubi said the authority has provided a voice and a discriminatory point of view, not a decision on this subject. Yacoubi said that "the jury expressed its willingness to defer consideration of appeals until after the elections and this opinion is not binding decision of the Electoral Commission and the UNHCR can rejected because the powers of the confined only to the decisions of appeals filed and have no other tasks, "noting that" the Authority will complete its tasks and is considered obsolete after consideration of appeals, therefore, It is for the Commission to reject the request of the discriminatory and opinion.
هيئة المساءلة تستنكر Deplores the accountability
Middle of this picture, "said Ali Lami, executive director of the Justice and Accountability: The decision by the Appeals came in two parts, the first is the inability of the Appeals to consider all appeals submitted to it by the time of the elections in violation of the formulas prescribed by law for the discriminatory and determined twenty days to consider appeals affected, regardless of their participation in the elections. He said al-Lami told a news briefing: The second breach is allowed to be excluded because of their inclusion measures of accountability and justice to participate in elections The body can not be discriminatory to recognize the excluded to participate in or not.
Arab League hails
In Cairo, Arab League praised the decisions taken by the Appeals Chamber by opening the way for the exiles to participate in the electoral process.
The Arab League said in a statement released yesterday and got correspondent "morning," Isra-Khalifa, a copy of: "We are following with interest the ongoing political movement in the Iraqi arena, to prepare for the forthcoming parliamentary elections," calling for "all political forces to work to create the right atmosphere for elections in an atmosphere of national consensus and free competition, and the true expression of popular will in an atmosphere of transparency, integrity and credibility
