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Iraqi Parliament: the profusion of proposals was the reason behind the failure to reach agreement on the election law

A member of the Iraqi List on Saturday, that the abundance of proposals on paragraph Almnicodp of the election law, submitted by the political blocs have created an atmosphere within the kiss parliament.

Husam Al-Azzawi told the Kurdistan News (AKnews) that "a number of proposals raised in the parliament on the election law, including, a United Nations proposal to grant 10% of the displaced, and another proposal involves the veto and the veto bill now heads to the Presidency again, and another would keep the 5% the proportion of displaced persons and to give minority quota of seats and make the national rate of 5% is reserved only for the Displaced."

He pointed out that "many proposals will reduce the opportunity to reach an agreement on the election law during its next sessions, and thus pull the delay on the date of the election," .. Stating that "the way the passage of the election law were inaccurate and carry law a number of contradictions did not address the members of the House of Representatives a bug in some paragraphs, and the differences today is the result of such legal problems."

Al-Azzawi said that "the absence of an accurate census was the reason behind the differences between the seats allocated to the provinces, there are many objections to the proportion of seats given to the provinces, and this is one problematic law."

Did not reach the House of Representatives at today's meeting to vote on the agreement on the election law because of the many proposals put forward by the political blocs, to amend the first article of the election law, revocation of Tariq al-Hashemi, Vice President of the Republic last Thursday.

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Kurdish lawmaker: We support the holding of elections on time, provided the distribution of seats in a fair

Deputy to the Kurdistan Alliance bloc supported the holding of elections on the scheduled date, provided the distribution of seats fairly.

Said Mohsen al-Sadoun told Kurdistan News (AKnews) said on Saturday that "the Kurdistan Alliance bloc in favor of holding elections as scheduled, but we are demanding that there be an allocation of parliamentary seats in the next fair and transparent to all the governorates of Iraq."

The Sadoun said, "There are voices within the Iraqi parliament supports the demands of the Kurdistan Alliance and we see that we have asked the project and unconstitutional."

The head of the Kurdistan region Massoud Barzani, has threatened to boycott the elections if not to modify the distribution of seats among the provinces of the region.

Saadoun and stressed that the Kurdistan Alliance to found a "violation of law by relying on the ration card in the distribution of the proportion of seats on the Iraqi provinces, which gave results that are not legally valid for the distribution of population in the provinces of Kurdistan."

The intersection between the statistics of the Ministries of Trade and Planning said: "Statistics and the Ministry of Planning refers to certain statistics, and statistics of the Ministry of Commerce is contrary to that, and we are a political bloc, we found that there is a physical disorder, and our demands are not political, but there is a line must be repaired by the Commission or the Iraqi parliament."

Fouad Hussein, chief of Cabinet of the President KRG, Massoud Barzani was quoted as saying, "it can not be accepted mechanism for the distribution of seats depending on the ration card prepared by the Ministry of Commerce to be incompatible with logic and fact, adoption of this method, the distortion of the facts and the injustice and prejudice the rights of the people of Kurdistan."

Kurdistan Alliance and the position of the political inconsistencies, "said Saadoun, they seek to" find a minimum of consensus so that all parties satisfied with the final version of the parliamentary election law."

And how to resolve things Saadoun said "things will be resolved through the voting mechanism, at a meeting tomorrow, and we expect to find a solution to the demands from within the existing solutions in the law."

According to the Parliamentary Elections Act, passed by the Iraqi parliament on Sunday at its November 8 agreement was reached on the distribution of parliamentary seats in the Iraqi governorates so that in Baghdad (68) seats and Nineveh (31) and Basra (24), Dhi Qar (18), Babel (16 ) and Sulaymaniyah (15) and Anbar (14), Arbil (14), Diyala (13), Kirkuk (12) and Salah al-Din (12), Najaf (12), Wasit (11), Qadisiya (11), Maysan (10) and Dahuk (9) and Kerbala (10) and Muthanna (7) seats only.

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UN proposal regarding election is realistic – MP

The Iraqi List Parliamentary bloc supports the UN proposal with respect to the voted down election bill, the entity’s head said on Saturday.

“The House’s speaker and head of Parliamentary blocs discussed the veto that was made by Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi, which sent down the election bill,” Lawmaker Jamal al-Bateekh told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

He said that the meeting tackled a number of proposed solutions, but his bloc supports the UN’s, because it is the one closer to reality.

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Bassem Sharif, announced the failure to reach a compromise on the election law

The deputy of the Virtue Party on behalf of the Sheriff expressed dissatisfaction with the climate that pervaded the discussions of the veto Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi of the electoral law on Saturday.

He said in a press statement that the atmosphere were not encouraging, to reach a compromise, especially since the proposals made have not been unanimous.

Shareef said Anhenak features of a political crisis, pointing to the lack of the constitutional period and the fear of jeopardizing the political process, stressing the participation of the Virtue Party in the negotiations towards a compromise, adding that there is a possibility of veto to respond to the attempt to continue negotiations.

Sharif expressed his belief that the time remaining is not sufficient for the parliamentary elections on schedule, indicating that the holding of elections in such a short time means the election procedures confused and weak.

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Abbas al-Bayati: Most see the need for parliamentary blocs response veto

Stressed the leadership of the coalition of the rule of law Abbas al-Bayati said more political blocs need to see the response veto and uphold the decision they have taken previously.

He said al-Bayati told News that a meeting of heads of blocs in order to reach a vision in response Maitalq veto and still need to see more blocks response veto and uphold the decision they have taken previously by the law.

He said al-Bayati said the proposals are made, believing that the law opened the proposals and the amendment will return them back to square one and will therefore each block of the demands and proposals and thus will not be able to deliver on the date of the elections in January 18 next year.

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Al-Azzawi: The most likely veto the veto election law

The Attorney for the Accordance Front, Rashid al-Azzawi, the House will make a decision at a meeting on Sunday on the subject of veto election law.

Al-Azzawi said in a statement carried by the news agency that he needs to have a vote after members of the accord to accept the veto and then vote on the article and found the proposals and vote on one of them, adding that he did not want to complicate the issue there are several proposals for a veto, a veto is very strong and the UN proposal which is 10% and divided by 3 and the other would give it a minority share of the provinces and the remaining 16 seats are to vote abroad and also that at least the seat price of the normal price is located in the home and the fourth proposal is that the survival is 10%, but likely for the 275 seats, and increase 3 % of growth each year and is likely to veto the veto and the proposal of the United Nations.

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MP Taha shield shows not optimistic regarding the completion of the election law

Council member Iraqi parliament deputy Taha shield politicians who Providing partisan interest on the national interests to workIn a balanced manner and speed up the completion of the election law for the elections as scheduled.

The shield in a telephone conversation with reporter "profound regret that we find some political parties are trying to give priority to partisan interest on the national interest, leading to complete block enactment of the law and therefore affects negatively on the date fixed for holding the elections on January 18, 2010."

And the shield "that what happened in the past few days makes us optimistic about the possibility of out of this impasse in the near future."

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Urgent ... Heading a Parliamentary delegation to the Vice President on election law

I learned of the sources close to the parliamentary delegation went to the Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi to persuade him to revoke the withdrawal of the Law of the election.

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Samurai confirms the success of the Helsinki Conference on the Question of Kirkuk

Speaker of Parliament, Iyad al-Samarrai said the goals of the Helsinki Conference on the Question of Kirkuk made in the astray agreed to continue constructive dialogue to find a solution to all problems concerning the future of the city.

Samarrai said during a news conference on Saturday that the dialogue is positive and characterized by the desire to reach a solution between the parties.

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Rafidain Bank distributed 900 thousand a smart card for pensioners

The Ministry of Finance to grant the Bank of Iraq covered by the Smart Card (nine hundred thousand) card for retirees and covered by a network of social protection.

And the transfer of a media source in the ministry on Sunday told the Iraqi news media of the Director General of BADEA Abdul Hussein al-Yasiri saying that the bank's plan to expand in the granting of the smart card to include citizens and employees, as well as rapid activation of points of sale, adding that he will study the coverage of traders and manufacturers of smart card system that to the success of the work card, which will contribute to reduce the use of cash.

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