June 14, 2010
Parliament holds its first meeting today in the presence of a formal and broad international
Baghdad operations: No curfew or a public holiday
بغداد- الصباح BAGHDAD - morning
House of Representatives today held its first session of the second round of elections in the presence of an official and an international scale, and expectations to keep the meeting open to make way for the political blocs to agree on the members of the three presidencies.
This comes at a time in which it denied the Baghdad operations impose a curfew or declare today a public holiday. General Manager of media for the House of Representatives said that the Office of the Council finished all preparations for the opening session of the new parliament held its first meeting today.
The head of department was quoted by the agency Nina's news: that the President of the Kurdistan region, Massoud Barzani and representatives of the Governments of the region and the regional parliament, would also attend, in addition to ex-MPs and all members of the diplomatic corps in Iraq », adding that» 360 journalists and media from various media will attend the first session of the coverage ».
It is worth mentioning that today's meeting will be opened at the tenth repetition of the oath of office for members of parliament after approval by the Federal Court on the results of the elections that took place in the seventh of last March and invite the Council presidency for the first session. For his part, described Mahmoud Othman, a member of the National Alliance of Kurdistan Parliament's first session as «protocol» to be opened and presiding over by the oldest member among the members of the new Parliament, pointing out that the new deputies will be sworn in and will then keep the meeting open to the pending agreement on three presidential positions.
And Othman predicted in an exclusive statement to »morning» to cast President Jalal Talabani's speech on the occasion.
For his part, Abbas al-Bayati, a member of the National Alliance for coalition rule of law that the parliament session will be informal and marked the beginning of the legislative session II. Bayati noted for »Sabah» it was not a function of the session that determined the biggest bloc, because it is up to Article 76 of the Constitution, only The meeting will of the parliamentary bloc, the Great. in turn, said Laila al-Khafaji, a member of the National Alliance that «and, according to the political arena, and therein was a political movement, today's meeting would not be conclusive on any topic except for the oath-taking of new members». She said al-Khafaji, in a statement »Sabah»: the «meeting will not exceed the activities that take place, where left open, although the constitution stipulates that the election of the Speaker and his deputies, the President and Prime Minister», afterthought to say: the «constitution text as well as to hold the meeting, which followed a period of not to exceed the 30-day and we are in the National Coalition insist on keeping the constitutional limitations and therefore can not be delayed meeting following today's meeting for a period longer than stated by the Constitution.
The leadership in a cluster Liberal Maha League has called in a press statement "not to let the ambassadors Masmtha States occupation in the presence of the parliamentary session today. In the meantime, the expert said the legal Salem Hawas Saadi:
The« parliament session scheduled for Monday will be a ceremonial swearing to Constitutional council members . He said Saedi was According to Article 54 which refers to invite the President to the parliament to hold its, can take place at the constitutional oath and the designation of presidencies since the first day of this meeting, and can continue, held open for 30 days ,
he that Article 72, paragraph II / b / of the Constitution supports this by referring to the President to continue its duties until after the elections new House of Representatives and the meeting, as well as Article 76 / II of the Constitution, which reinforces article 54, which suggested it could be the prime minister to form Ministry during the period of 30 days, which means the possibility to keep the meeting open for 30 days. the center of the photo, said the official spokesman for the Baghdad Operations Command, Major General Qassim Atta, the operational command has no intention to declare a curfew or closure of many streets of Baghdad with the the first session of Parliament.
Atta said in a statement quoted by the agency Aswat al-Iraq: The Baghdad Operations Command does not intend to declare a curfew or closure of some streets and security measures will be normal and the security forces control of the situation throughout Baghdad completely, and not fears of security violations», but he also said: But we take into account all possibilities, especially with regard to possible terrorist reactions .
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