An emergency session of parliament .. And fears of lack of quorum due to travel of a number of deputies
House of Representatives held an emergency meeting tomorrow to discuss the allocation of seats to governorates and to calculate the minority seats in the election law.
The holding of the meeting after consultations and discussions took place yesterday between President Jalal Talabani and Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi on amending the electoral law.
In the opinion of MP's parliamentary bloc virtue Karim al-Yacoubi said the special meeting tomorrow will discuss the latest developments to amend the election law, but that the House could not vote on anything because the law originally did not have but the Presidency of the Republic.
He said if the presidency was overturned the law to the House of Representatives could vote again or to agree on a specific mechanism, but not the House of Representatives can introduce some of the material law was lifted to the presidency of the republic."
He added: "The House of Representatives who can work on is to develop mechanisms for the work of the Electoral Commission over the distribution of seats and Kota minorities and vote itinerant abroad."
He explained: "The recommendations and mechanisms to be agreed upon will be submitted to the Electoral Commission and therefore, the Vice-President Tareq al-Hashemi will approve the law."
According to deputies, the invitations to the representatives this morning to attend an emergency session of parliament tomorrow.
But political analysts have expressed fears that there is no quorum at the meeting tomorrow because of travel of a number of deputies out of Iraq or that some are still in the Hajj and that the deputy Kurdistan Alliance, mostly in the northern governorates.
The agreement took place yesterday evening between Talabani and Hashemi, according to spokesman List / renovation / Shaker book, the adoption of the records of 2005 and calculated the rate of increase in the provinces increased by 2,8 percent annually in the electoral law.
Noted that this matter is originally in the electoral law.
The Article 56 / I of the Constitution gave powers to the president to convene an emergency special session.
Under article mentioned that they (the President of the Republic, the Prime Minister or the President of the Council of Representatives or fifty members of the council may call for an extraordinary session, and the meeting shall be confined to the issues that necessitated the call to him."
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