Parliament sets 15 September as the date for the election of the Presidency

05/9/2018 12:00 am

Baghdad / Sabah / Shaima Rashid
The Council of Representatives in its meeting on Tuesday, September 15, the last date for the election of his presidency (the President and Vice-Chairmen), and announced the President of the Council Muhammad Ali Zinni that the agreement on the date was after the consultative meeting held with members and representatives of parliamentary blocs to discuss the special constitutional deadlines The election of the Presidency of the Council of Representatives, and revealed Zinni in a statement to the "morning" that "did not send the lists of the largest bloc submitted by alliances to the Federal Court," and that "the matter is assigned to the new parliament speaker, who will be elected," Zinni announced the competition of 7 candidates - to date - to the presidency Parliament, among the legal expert that the parliamentary sessions do not have a constitutional violation that the Constitution gave a deadline of 15 days for the first sessions of the parliament to choose the president.
The parliament failed in the second part of its first session held on Tuesday to open the door to run for the post of speaker of parliament and his deputies after the absence of many of its members and the presence of 85 deputies only, prompting the President of the age to lift the meeting to 15 September.


Head of Age
"The meetings of the parliament is continuing, and was meeting with representatives of the political blocs in the Constitutional Hall in order to reach a final agreement on the selection of the presidency of parliament, it was agreed that it is better to stop the daily meetings of parliament until 15 of this month To be a deadline for the agreement to vote on the presidency of the parliament and his deputies, to be decided during this
the days".
He added that "the names nominated for the presidency of the parliament are: Ahmed al-Jubouri (Abu Mazen) and Talal al-Zubai, Ahmed Abdullah al-Jubouri, Osama Najafi, Mohammed Tamim, Mohammed Halbusi and Rashid al-Azzawi," noting that "the door of candidacy opened since the first meeting on the presidency of parliament and his deputies, That "the date of the meeting could be on any day of these days in the event of agreement on the candidates."

Statement of the meeting
A statement by the Information Department of the House of Representatives received by "morning", that the House of Representatives resumed on Tuesday the first session of the first legislative term for the first legislative year in its fourth election session headed by MP Muhammad Ali Zinni, the head of age, who stressed at the outset of the meeting on the importance of commitment to attend the session and the constitutional timing, Calling on MPs to pay attention to the interest of the country
And the people.
The deputies Ahmed Abdullah al-Jubouri and Hana Turki al-Tai, sworn in members of the House of Representatives. In the interventions of MPs, MP Majida al-Tamimi asked members of some parliamentary blocs to attend the meeting and not to be absent, and called MP Burhan al-Mamouri parliamentary blocs to adhere to constitutional terms and attendance at the meetings, warning of the repercussions of boycotting the meetings on
Status of the country.
The Deputy Enas Naji pointed out that the lack of respect for the constitutional timing will lead to negative effects on the reality, especially in the presence of problems suffered by the people. MP Sadiq Hamid called on members of the parliamentary blocs to attend the meetings and abide by the constitution in order to ensure the development of the political process.
Deputy MP Zaytoun al-Dulaimi stressed the importance of the performance of the political blocs for their parliamentary role in electing a president and two deputies. In turn, MP Amer al-Fayez said that the intended absence from the session represents a bad start for the work of the House of Representatives, especially that the people are waiting for the completion of important services and laws. Not to resort to partisan subjugation. On the other hand, the head of the age, Mohamed Ali Zinni, the opinion of the Legislative Adviser in the House of Representatives on the mechanism of electing the Presidency of the House of Representatives, and included the announcement of the President of the age on the opening of the nomination for the President of the Council and his two deputies and elected the first president first and then the first deputy and the second deputy by an absolute majority Members of the Council in the secret ballot according to Article VII of the Rules of Procedure, indicating that the nomination door shall be for the Chairman and his deputies at one time before closing the nomination.
Then the head of the age announced the determination of Saturday, September 15 present date for the election of the Speaker of the House of Representatives and his deputies.


Parliamentary Views
To that, a member of the House of Representatives on the mass building Amer winner, that the session of parliament remained ongoing because the constitution did not specify its duration despite the existence of seven names competing for the presidency of parliament.
Fayez said: "The morning": "Yesterday's session is limited to the validity of the election of the Speaker of Parliament and his deputies and the session is continuing to resolve the matter despite the meetings held for the purpose of this matter, and despite the presence of seven names for the presidency of parliament, but there are no names for the Vice-President because he did not open the door Filtering after ".
"The president of the country is required to open the door for the nomination of deputies of the speaker of parliament," he said, adding that "the seven names will be put to a vote on the presidency of parliament," noting that "the speaker of parliament and his deputies will be resolved in one basket."
Fayez said: "We must resolve the presidency of parliament within two days as the maximum extent, because it is not possible to prolong the period of the choice of the Speaker of Parliament, how will be resolved the issue of choosing the government," noting that "the presidency of the Council is not limited to the largest bloc, The republic is open to all Iraqis, only the prime minister is confined to the largest bloc. "
For his part, counted MP from the block «construction» Haneen al-Qaddu, to approach the Federal Court of the powers of the political blocs and the elected speaker only. Al-Qaddo said in an interview: "The powers of the head of the age is limited by calling for the oath of the oath and calling for the nomination of the speaker of parliament only." He explained that «the election of the two Vice-President of the Parliament and the naming of the largest bloc is the power of the President of the elected parliament», stressing that «the approach of the Federal Court is Of the powers of the political blocs and the president-elect only ».



Legal expert
On the other hand, the legal expert Tariq Harb, that in parts of the first session of the parliament does not exist any violation of the Constitution because the extension is 15 days in accordance with Article 54 of the Constitution and the breach begins after this period.
"The meetings are correct, but the head of the age before entering the issue of the largest bloc, to open the nomination for the presidency of parliament and the vote of deputies and we are sure that no candidate will get 165 votes, but as a constitutional action should have taken" .
He added that "the meetings that took place on Monday and Tuesday can be said that they are extended sessions but after the constitutional period, which is 15 days can not be an extension and there is a violation of the Constitution is clear," noting that "the powers of the President of the age is to put names to vote on the presidency of Parliament after the The constitutional right, despite the lack of agreement blocs, a constitutional procedure and not raise the issue of the largest bloc. "


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