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URGENT ... source confirms surprised some members of the House of Representatives held an emergency meeting of the Council

From sources within the parliament that "now entered the parliament members to the conference room for their session emergency, noting that most members of the House of Representatives Did not attend the meeting, indicating that the reason was due to travel outside the country and is another reason not to invite some of them, stressing that the lawmakers expressed surprise to hear the news of the emergency session."

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05/12/2009 5:20 pm

We hope to reach an agreement to avoid the veto-Hashimi

MP said the United Iraqi Alliance, Mohammed Ahumaidwi that "session Today Would not be a vote of a consultative Deliberative For the latest information And suggestions And opinions that have been submitted From all parties on the electoral law.

He Ahumaidwi in a telephone conversation Mr Vice-President of the Republic Had set today as the date Final consideration of his proposals To modify Law, otherwise it will be used Right to veto the law, and we hope that the discussions and consultations Ongoing between the political blocs Which Did not stop over the past few days To reach an agreement and resolve once and good results will satisfy everyone To avoid a veto-Hashimi

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Political blocs reach deal on election law

The political blocs reached a deal on the controversial election law, reversing it back to the status prior to the recent amendment, the parliament’s provinces committee said on Saturday.

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Hashemi ponders UN proposal on voters outside Iraq

Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi has received a proposal from the United National Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) concerning a mechanism for counting the votes of Iraqis living abroad, according to an informed source.

“I wished we could have settled the election law by amending the article concerning voters outside the country without delving into others that have noted been vetoed in the first place,” read a statement released by Hashemi’s media office and received by Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

Hashemi has stressed his keenness to surmount the crisis, the statement added.

Political bloc heads are seeking solutions to the controversial electoral law in an attempt to appease all parties.

On Nov. 23, the Iraqi Parliament voted in favor of two proposals that had been submitted by political bloc leaders.

The first proposal stipulates that voters outside Iraq should be able to vote for candidates in their own provinces, as if they were still at home.

The second states that populations in Iraqi provinces, which act as constituencies, should be based on food ration data from 2005, when the last polls were held. An increase rate of 2.8 percent per year will be added.

The vote came after Sunni Vice President Hashemi had vetoed the law, ordering it back to the Parliament.

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Al Hashemi calls for a consensus solution to the election law just

New Vice-President Tareq al-Hashemi readiness decline to reverse the election law and to accept any fair compromise redistributes seats in the provinces as they were before the recent amendment provides an opportunity to be the value of votes of itinerant home and abroad are equivalent to their counterparts from the citizens, noting that the Constitution guarantees each member of the presidential veto laws or approval, according to a statement his office.

The statement that the revocation of the Vice-President Tareq al-Hashemi launched to overturn the election law the first time as a duty of office, and did not invalidate the law just veto but had a legitimate justification for it.

The statement quoted Hashemi as saying "I've been a regular Vice-President of the Republic according to the Constitution, which mandated the application and to ensure it today that I can agree on legislation or Angdha and this is done, and do members of the Presidency repeatedly during the past four years.

And before the vice president said, according to the statement that the laws used to provide the Board Chair and each member of the Council the right to evaluate each law as he sees Bugeth own and not necessarily to agree with him and three were over four years is the laws passed and the other overturned and returned to the House of Representatives did not seen the media frenzy that hurt the Iraqi people and caused Alvdoy without justification ", alluding to the statement said that March" constitutional right for four years did not hear the sound we hear today, Sun, why the law of elections and the chaos in the statements.

Al Hashimi concluded by stating that the guarantor of the Presidency to implement the constitution, and we swore that, but knows all of the murky political boat, I will exercise my constitutional oath periodically to satisfy it pleases Him, and of the object from the object of the secretariat Oaiha and I understand that all politicians are elected and we secretariat and on both sides of the Sosunha according to the Constitution and the law.

The Deputy President of the Republic according to a statement his office on the flexibility of the future, saying his decision to repeat the politicians we are open to any compromise option restores rights to the record straight with regard to seats in the provinces as it was before the recent amendment and we are open to any party whatsoever, even those that fail to provide us the appropriate opportunity to itinerant home and abroad to exercise their electoral right and the value of their votes equivalent to their counterparts at home ", pointing out that the area is still open for the politicians to agree on an appropriate recipe based on the rules of justice and only then Soghei decision to veto either if the solution is not appropriate and does not meet the national interest did not reach concerned when the results of a national consensus and I would do to perform periodically without the slightest hesitation.

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Al-Azzawi: can not set aside the election law Hashemi constitutionally

A member of the House of Representatives of the Iraqi Accordance Front, Rashid al-Azzawi that the revocation of the Vice-President Tareq al-Hashemi of the electoral law is terminated since Friday.

He said al-Azzawi's election law is ratified by the constitutionally of the Presidency of the Republic, but the Federal Court extended the period and gave him another chance on Saturday.

He said al-Azzawi told the Iraqi news media that in the event overturn the law, they need 165 members to pass the bill or acceptance of the veto in both cases it will be very difficult.

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Amery: We agreed on the 325-seat parliament will go to the next 327!

Iraqi parliament holds emergency session this afternoon at the request of President Jalal Talabani to clarify a point in the election law regarding the number of seats in the provinces created a sensation, as well as how to calculate the quota of minorities and the voices of migrants, while excluding from the list, the Iraqi deputy high Nassif be achieved quorum at the emergency session of the Council of House of Representatives today.

"The majority of council members are abroad, and the convening of a meeting like this highway will not give adequate space for members to attend the meeting."

Parliamentary sources said the session if the session will be devoted to discuss the agreement reached between the political blocs with Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi, who not to cut the seats in the provinces, in an attempt to dissuade him for breach of the law.

According to the Chairman of the Committee of the Regions in the Parliament, the political blocs reached an agreement on the election law, pointing out that the agreement, the adoption of a mechanism the allocation of seats to what it was before the recent amendments to the law.

Hashim al-Tai said that "political forces reached, on Friday, during a meeting at the UN headquarters agreement On the electoral law ", stating that the agreement "includes a return to the electoral law before the recent amendments made by, and was approved by the Office of the elections."

Ta'ee said that "all political parties seem to agree and there is no tone dissonance between them, including the head of the Kurdistan Alliance bloc Fuad Masum, who did not show any objection to the agreement," pointing out that the parliament session scheduled for Saturday night would be an "illegal meeting to discuss the electoral law in the absence of a quorum, on the amendment process to take place after one day, any day on Sunday."

The MP said Hadi al-Ameri, who attended the meeting that he was agreed to be the number of seats 325 seats in parliament, and will never go to 327 seats, so that the rate of population growth of $ 2.8 making the number of Iraq's population of 32 million and about 450 thousand people. He said it was maintaining the provincial parliament, quotas announced by the Electoral Commission, except for some minor amendments.

The special meeting held today in the wake of a call by President of the Council, Iyad al-Samarrai Thursday to its members to convene an emergency session at the request of President Jalal Talabani.

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URGENT .. Samurai Alastthaiip adjourned until tomorrow, for lack of quorum

Dr. Iyad al-Samarrai said the President of the Council of Representatives to raise the special meeting on Sunday for lack of quorum.

The Board Had held a special meeting this afternoon in the presence of 113 deputies to discuss the distribution of House seats among the provinces.

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Urgent ... House of Representatives vote on the proposal shortly after the United Nations

The members of the House of Representatives just went to the parliament to vote on the proposal of the United Nations to pass the election law.

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URGENT .... Layla al-Khafaji, Attorney: We have reached an agreement and are continuing to pass under the dome of the parliament

Said a member of the House of Representatives from the coalition united Iraq Layla al-Khafaji, said the political blocs reached an agreement on the electoral law and they will go shortly after the Council Chamber to approve this agreement.

Khafaji said in a telephone conversation - We do not need to overturn the law did not give details of the agreement reached by blocks

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