July 12, 2010Iraq: the lack of agreement on the presidencies means breach of the constitutional deadline and the rule of law in our favor
Alsumaria News / Baghdad
Expected the Iraqi List, Sunday, a breach of the ceiling of the time set by the Constitution to elect the chair of the parliament and the Republic on the thirteenth of July present, the time of the meeting of the Iraqi parliament next, stressing that there should be prior agreement on a deal three presidencies, before going to the parliament session, which The coalition is supported by the rule of law.
A spokesman for the Iraqi List Haider Mulla said in an interview for "Alsumaria News" "The list would boycott the parliamentary session scheduled for next Wednesday if you do not agree the political blocs in advance to choose the three presidencies in order to be approved the deal in the same meeting," asserting that "coalition of the rule of law supported the Iraqi List, the need for agreement on a deal already blocks three presidencies before going to Parliament.
It is planned to hold the parliament session on Wednesday, the thirteenth of July present, after the first session was held on 14 June last, and then kept open until a solution to the problem of the new government formation.
The Iraqi constitution mandates that the President calls for new Council of Representatives to convene within fifteen days of the court's endorsement of federal election results, should the new Council be chosen at the first meeting as Chairman and two Vice-Presidents, then the House of Representatives during a maximum period of thirty days after the election of the President , and the latter within fifteen days after the election, a candidate commissioned the largest bloc in the House of Representatives to form a government, and is to the Prime Minister in charge of thirty days to complete the task, if not successful president assigns people substitute.
Al Mulla expected to be breached the time limit prescribed by the Constitution to elect the chair of the parliament and the republic, "There is no escape from the postponement of the election presidencies until after the time limit set by the Constitution," asserting that Iraq will seek to complete the issue of choice of the three presidencies before holding any meeting of the Iraqi parliament for a vote at once, because any attempt to split the three presidencies will mean choosing the complexity of the political landscape in the country. "
Al Mulla said, "Iraq sees in calls from some political parties for the holding of the parliamentary session without agreement on the three presidencies attempt to establish a known politician in the country working on the distribution of positions of sovereignty over the sectarian and ethnic grounds," noting that "the Iraqi stresses the need for the distribution of posts sovereign according to maturity political and not sectarian or ethnic. "
And saw the Iraqi political arena is a multiplicity of differences and the differences between the political blocs after the parliamentary elections which took place in the seventh of last March, there is disagreement about the interpretation of the constitutional article concerning eligibility cluster responsible for the formation of the government, and there is conflict over the candidate blocks for the post of prime minister, and then dispute within the bloc one of candidates for the position, as well as regional conflict of wills in that file.
The question being debated among the winners in the elections on the text of the constitutional entitlement Cluster winning the formation of the government, Iraqi constitution in accordance with Article 76 on the eligibility of the parliamentary majority of the formation of the government, while insisting coalition Iraqi (91 seats) that the text refers to the list of winning elections at the time of the rule of law is a coalition (89 seats) that the text means any farm that may arise as a result of a merger or alliance winning any of the blocks after the election.
