Thread: Archive News - Iraqi Dinar Think Tank - 08/09/09 - 09/01/10

The election law before the last chance

I returned to parliamentary sources the next few hours as "critical" to decide on the electoral law, after you select the Election Commission on Thursday at the latest for approval for National Merit in January 16 next year.

Started yesterday evening and energetic moves by the Presidency of the parliament and political leaders to unify the positions on the election law for a vote on Thursday, in a time when representatives of the Arabs and Turkmen in Kirkuk to the government's call to postpone the elections to maintain in the absence of Parliament was able to reach a compromise, while urging the Kurdistan Alliance to resolve the law was passed not to take optional delay or return to the 2005 Act is rejected by most political forces. Sources in the presidency of the Parliament: "The Presidency and a number of political leaders embarked on moves to agree on elections law.

The sources said the" morning "that" objective of these moves Hoaltousel unified view on the election of Kirkuk, "alluding to the existence of new proposals, refused to disclose its contents. It is said that the Election Commission on Thursday set the deadline for receipt of election law in order to hold elections on schedule in January 16 next year. in Meanwhile, the U.S. Attorney Abd Mutlaq al-Jubouri for "directed at Arab and Turkmen of Kirkuk to demand the government use its constitutional powers to postpone the city elections in the event of failure to reach a compromise solution by the Parliament.

The United Nations has submitted a proposal on Kirkuk provides for the first three paragraphs of the election timing with the rest of provinces and the second allocation of two Taweidien Arabs and Turkmen, and the third to form a committee to audit the register of voters and the increase in the elections and returned to Kirkuk after year. in turn, warned the Kurdistan Alliance MP Sirwan Zahawi the risk of postponement of general elections or the adoption of the 2005 elections in the event of the failure of Parliament to reach a compromise on Kirkuk node in the new electoral legislation, noting "The arrival of the discussions between representatives of the political blocs and the Legal Committee on a dead end," as he put it. middle of this picture, revealed MP Abbas al-Bayati of the new proposal said that he enjoys most of the admissibility of parliamentary blocs on the issue of Kirkuk in the elections the next parliamentary and paves the way for a vote on the law.

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Fresh meeting between parliament’s chairmanship, legal committee

The legal committee started on Thursday a meeting with the parliament’s chairmanship and representatives of the political blocs and the UN in a fresh attempt to reach an agreement on the final formula of the election law, spokesman of the Iraqi Accord Front said.

“We have to vote on the election law during today’s session,” Saleem al-Juburi told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

He expected that the parliament’s session today will be crucial on the law.
Iraqi politicians have been turning up their rhetoric over Kirkuk, the oil-rich city that both Kurds in the north and Arabs in the south want to control.

The dispute has caused a deadlock over the country’s election law, threatening to delay Iraq’s nationwide elections set for January. Any vote setback could, in turn, disrupt American plans to withdraw troops from Iraq, scheduled to ramp up after the vote.

The immediate dispute centers on voting rolls listing who can vote in Kirkuk in the January national election. Kurds have favored using the 2009 voter registry, which probably reflects the Kurdish growth, while Arabs generally prefer the 2004 voter registry, when the Kurdish population wasn’t so large. That has delayed the necessary deal on the election law.

Any delay in the election date could push back the U.S. withdrawal. U.S. officials have said that they are still hoping the Jan. 16th date will go forward but say their troop drawdown plan is not set in stone.

As the election approaches, tensions have increased among lawmakers in Iraq.

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CBI’s dollar sales drop on Thurday

The Central Bank of Iraq’s (CBI) dollar sales fell to $125.200 million in its daily auction on Thursday, compared to $194.255 million during the previous session.

“The demand hit $4 million in cash, covered at an exchange rate of 1,183 Iraqi dinars per dollar, and $121.200 million in foreign transfers outside the country, covered at an exchange rate of 1,173 Iraqi dinars per dollar,” according to a CBI news bulletin received by Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

None of the 13 banks that participated in today’s session offered to sell dollars.


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Asadi: hardening of the attitudes behind not to vote on election law

MP and member of the coalition rule of law, Khalid Al-Assadi, a hardening of positions on the political blocs representing the Kirkuk of Kurds, Arabs and Turkmen and the issue of Kirkuk has become the only obstacle in the way of adoption of the electoral law.

The Asadi in an interview conducted by the agency "Iraq is our house" in the House of Representatives on Thursday expressed "regret the loss of all the efforts made to overcome that obstacle, which was the major reason why the adoption of this electoral law today, too." He noted that other reasons is the lack of agreement on a formula to be voted on by members of the House of Representatives, and the lack of a quorum to conduct the voting because of the travel of members of the House to their provinces and outside the country.

He called al-Asadi's political blocs to "take the positions of various alternative that can address the problem, basically, and adopt the electoral system was last in the restructuring and rules can be applied to general elections in Iraq," stressing the political blocs to take a bold and decisive action to turn the upcoming electoral process without hindrance or just think postponed.

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Vice Chairman Tai Hana: There is evidence to indicate that the possibility of adoption of the election law on Saturday

Said a member of the Iraqi parliament Hana Turki al-Tai of the United Iraqi Alliance, "The initial benchmark, or the primary message that can get them after the meeting of the Council of Representatives today is a sign of good points To the possibility of performing Election law."

Tai added in a telephone conversation with a reporter, "It is possible to end all the problems in the coming days, explaining that the items have been agreed upon variable at any moment there might be a trap. Today or tomorrow for any item agreed upon today, but that original agreement was that the election shall be a multi-circuit things fixed, but Mai_khas the Kirkuk issue and how the election shall be changing it at every moment and can be put Ray in order to implement such a law. "

She noted that "no opinion on the issue of Kirkuk, shall Requires the approval of All the blocks it before it is approved in the election law."

Tai and showed that there are many proposals submitted at the same time, a variable, but all indicate that there are signs bode well for the law was passed on Saturday.

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MP Sami Atrushi: There is a scenario for a vote on the election law on Saturday, the absence of the Kurds

MP Sami al-Atrushi of the Coalition The presidency of Kurdistan will refuse the election law if his vote in the House of Representatives the absence of the Kurds at a meeting next Saturday.

Atrushi said in a statement singled out by the reporter that "There is a scenario for a vote on the election law in the absence of Kurdish parliament session next Saturday, but the Presidency of the parliament was not satisfied with this scenario, noting that the Presidency will reject this law If what has passed this way and thus brought back to parliament again.

He Atrushi that there is no way to pass this law, non-compatibility mode between political parties pointing out that the Kurdistan Alliance has had to offer concessions during the negotiations in the Kirkuk issue.

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Hassan Sunaid: there is no agreement on the proposals on the election law so far

Expressed MP Hassan Sunaid the United Iraqi Alliance was surprised at the remarks of the Legal Committee in the House of Representatives on reaching an agreement on the issue of Kirkuk.

The head of the Legal Committee of the Council Bahaa al-announced an agreement between the various parliamentary blocs on the issue of Kirkuk.

Said Sunaid told the independent press (Iba) has been distributing a copy of the proposals to the heads of parliamentary blocs, but has not been agreed upon so far.

He said he will discuss the proposals and agreed on Saturday before displaying the election law to parliament for a vote.

At the same time stressed the need for Sunaid to hold elections on schedule for mid-January next year.

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Faraj al-Haidari: any day delay in approving the law is calculated on the post-deadline

Commission President Electoral Faraj al-Haidari, "Every day delay in approving the election law extends the time limit for the elections for another day."

He said al-Haidari told the independent press (Iba) "The commission is ready for any new law, but it is important to be enacted the law, saying that he will be added every day which delayed the House of Representatives legislation of the law on the date fixed for the holding of elections".

He noted that the type of list that elections will be held under that were closed or open, and was conducted in accordance with the Service and one or multiple will also affect the date, "Every law has a certain time."

Is noteworthy that the deadline for the holding of parliamentary elections next month is the middle of January next year.

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Bari Zebari: The issue of Kirkuk, a constitutional issue, not political

MP Abdul Bari Zebari, the Kurdistan Alliance, "The parliamentary blocs involved did not stand up now stand as one of the Kirkuk issue, noting that this issue is not a political issue but a constitutional issue."

He said Zebari, told the independent press (Iba) "as long as some people insist on subjects involving the unconstitutional and rejected the resolutions of the Federal Court and it is the constitutional powers we will be standing in the same place, stressing that it will delay the adoption of the electoral law."

Accuse the Kurds, Arabs and Turkmen representatives of the involvement of the Kirkuk issue in the process of approval of the election law, which led to postpone it all this time, which was scheduled to be adopted in mid-October last year.

Zebari stressed that "there are accusations of many of the MPs that external influences on the adoption of the electoral law, stressing the need to speed up adoption by order not to delay the date of the next election."

Is noteworthy that had been identified in mid-January of next year as the date for the upcoming parliamentary elections.

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Zafarani: Kurds exercising access policy to the brink of the abyss

MP Dhafir al-Ani, the head of the parliamentary consensus "that the Kurds exercising access policy to the brink of the abyss, or access to the last minute to grab the largest number of gains, noting that they would be attempting to everyone crammed into a tight corner."

The Kurdistan Alliance has accused the Arabs and Turkmen have caused the delay in approval of the election law by rejecting a United Nations proposal for the adoption of the electoral register for 2009.

He said al-Ani told the independent press (Iba), "The Arabs and Turkmen, they adhere to a record in 2004, but they agree on the record in 2009 as a partial settlement, noting that" stipulation of two additional seats from the national quota to address the partial deviation of population in Kirkuk. "He said.

He stressed that "the Kurds are reluctant to do that, but Aigblon and they continue to cling to the position is not justified on this issue, as if they want to impose a de facto acceptance of the demographic changes that have taken place in Kirkuk."

Between al-Ani, "The failure to reach a compromise solution to this problem under the dome of the parliament will give a negative message to the Iraqi people that the Parliament could not get to solutions."

It is noteworthy that the Independent High Electoral Commission for elections has announced that Thursday is the deadline for Agherarqanon the elections so they can fulfill their obligations to conduct the forthcoming elections on schedule, a sixteenth of the month of January next year.

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