Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Legal Expert: In front of the Presidential Council has 15 days to call parliament to hold its first session

18/05/2010

Legal Expert: In front of the Presidential Council has 15 days to call parliament to hold its first session

Baghdad, (Akaniwz) - Iraqi legal expert said on Tuesday that in front of the Presidential Council has 15 days to call the new parliament held its first meeting after the ratification of the results of the elections that took place in the seventh month of March.

The Tariq Harb told the Kurdistan News (Akaniwz) that "the Presidency Council of the president and the First and Second Vice, binding, according to Iraqi law to convene the first meeting of the Iraqi Council of Representatives no later than 15 days after ratification of the election results."

He added that "any delay in calling for a breach of the law and the constitution of Iraq," noting that "the political blocs are also legally bound to respond to the invitation of the Presidency of that only authorized for this command."

And blocks waiting for the winner in the elections of the Federal Court, to endorse the results of the counting after the determination of all complaints and appeals.

The Election Commission in Iraq announced that the number of seats won blocks remained the case, after a manual recount in Baghdad, which lasted 12 days, following the appeal lodged by a coalition of law the current government led by Prime Nuri al-Maliki and accepted by the Appeals Chamber of the Office.

Witnessed in the Iraqi arena undecided wide, between the winners of the elections on the text of the constitutional entitlement winning cluster to form a government, as provided according to the Iraqi Constitution Article 76, on the eligibility of the parliamentary majority of the government formation.

He insists the Iraqi coalition (91 seats) that the text refers to the list of winning the election, is a coalition of state law (89 seats) means that the text of a cluster may arise as a result of a merger or alliance winning any of the blocks after the election.

Prior to the announcement of the results, stepped legs of the rule of law and the National Coalition (70 seats) of the contacts ended with the declaration formed the parliamentary bloc of weeks ago, interpreted by the leaders in coalitions that Pat has the right to form a government as the largest parliamentary bloc in the new Council of Representatives.

This raised the interpretation of the controversial, has outraged the leaders of Iraq, is viewed as a coup against democracy and the electoral and constitutional maturity.