Iraq Parliament…stalling and delaying
It seems that the political dilemma taking the upper hand in Parliament on pending issues between the different political blocs is paralyzing the Parliament’s capacity to decide on major issues including the work of the normalization committee in Kirkuk, the Justice and Accountability Law and the constitutional amendment committee. Parliamentarian blocs that have agreed on items 7, 8 and 28 of Justice and Accountability Law have backtracked their stands opposing them anew after they were passed to parliament. Head of de-Baathification committee in Parliament Fallah Chanchal justified the Sadrist bloc opposition to Article 8 saying that this article allows reinstating baathists while baathists who used to work during the former regime of Saddam Hussein should not be engaged in state institutions in order not to be violated again. However, Iraqi List MP Moufid Al Jazaeri considers that the law has failed with Baathists who have committed crimes against the Iraqi people while non-guilty people should not be accounted for others’ acts.
The normalization committee of Kirkuk spurs the same differences regarding Constitution Article 140 which is considered by some parties cancelled since the end of its deadline to complete its work by December 2007. Still, Kurdistan Alliance MP Mahmoud Othman accused political parties of blocking the work of the committee for more than three months after committee chairman, former Justice Minister Hashem Al Shibli was ousted.
Moreover, the constitutional amendments committee is still stalling due to disputes over some points that require amending. Hanine Qaddo, a member of the committee said the committee might require extending its work for another legislation round at least. In case of failure, he added, it ought to ask from Parliament to be disbanded.
In consequence, Accordance Front MP Salim Abdullah considers that Iraqi Parliament has turned into a parliament of delayed and blocked laws because of lack of responsibility from the part of certain lawmakers. :wigged:
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