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Lawmakers vote on amendment to Investment Law

The Iraqi Parliament on Monday voted on the first amendment to the Investment Law no. 13 of the year 2006, according to a lawmaker.

The Parliament has begun its session with reading the proposals about the amendments to the election law, MP Bassem Shareef from the Fadila Bloc told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

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Nujaifi: we pulled out to protest against the legal and constitutional

Withdrew a number of parliamentary blocs of the meeting of the Council of Representatives held now, with the chairman of parliament meeting for 15 minutes of consultation between the political blocs on the proposals to amend the election law.

The MP said that the withdrawal Osama Nujaifi Jaouaandjaja for violations of legal and constitutional proposal presented by the United Iraqi Alliance, was considered Nujaifi in a telephone conversation with the Agency (UR) that the rate of population increase 3% is fair to Nineveh, noting in this connection to the Federal Court's decision to add 11 for the province Nineveh.

The blocks of consensus and dialogue, and the Arab bloc independent, and a number of National Assembly deputies, according to the description Nujaifi, Turkmen and other ethnic groups withdrew from the meeting, which returned to heal without achieving a quorum.

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Parliament approved the new electoral law without addressing the objections Hashimi
Vice Maatardon: Adoption of the amendment unconstitutional and satisfaction of the Kurds

Deputies said, Iraqi parliament on Monday approved the amended version of the law necessary to hold general elections next year, but deliberately ignored the objection, Sunni Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi, and decided to postpone the meetings of the House of Representatives to the eighth of next month, because of the holiday of Eid al-Adha.

Will return the law to the Presidency Council, where deputies said he was close to al-Hashemi had been re-challenge it, delaying the elections scheduled in January for a month, which threatens U.S. plans to withdraw troops next year. The head of the Legal Committee of the Council MP Bahaa al-Sadr's bloc, told reporters "bleeding human, that the election will be close and if delayed For several days for technical reasons, and will make everyone vote. Iraqis abroad to vote for their provinces."

He Araji said: "His Excellency Senqdah again", in reference to Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi, who challenged the law adopted by the House of Representatives two weeks ago.

In the context of opposition deputies from the Sunni Arabs of the amendments, MP Osama Al-Nujaifi Mosul: "House of Representatives has committed a serious violation of the constitution, the presidency of the Council did not comply with the constitutional and legal violations under this article which were voted in contravention of the constitution."

"It's an attempt to steal the seats in the provinces of Nineveh, Kirkuk and Salah al-Din and give it to the northern governorates illegally," in reference to the increase you will get seats on the territory of Kurdistan under the new amendment is passed.

The number of members of the Accordance Front and the Arab bloc and some independent deputies walked out of the Turkmen of the meeting, was forced to raise them for 15 minutes for consultation. The proposal adopted by the House of Representatives today and made by the United Iraqi Alliance on the following:

(Repeal of article 15 of the Act and replace it with "House of Representatives consists of a number of seats by one seat for every 100 thousand inhabitants, according to the Ministry of Commerce for the year 2005 to be added to population growth rate of 2,8 per cent a year").

The second paragraph of the proposed amendment to that (Iraqis vote wherever they are, the lists of their provinces or their candidates that includes voting outside Iraq, the vote of the controls).

The following components will be given share / quota / seats allocated to their districts, and the component of Christian (five seats in Baghdad, Nineveh and Dohuk, Irbil and Kirkuk) and Yezidi (one seat in Nineveh) and Shabak (seat in Nineveh) and the Sabians (a seat in Baghdad).

(The percentage of five percent of the seats will be allocated compensatory Kmhad the lists distributed by the seats obtained.

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Hashemi threatens to veto a new electoral law and parliament failed to adopt the law

Deputy President Tariq al-Hashemi that it would resort to the veto election law again after Parliament held an amendment today the addition of 2.8 such as increasing the proportion of population

The attitude came after the Hashemite Sunni Arab MPs announced their protest to this amendment, and considered it insufficient.

Hashemi's office said that the amendment when an injustice to the representation of displaced inside and outside, waving Hashimi, resort to the use of veto in the event of referral to the presidency.

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Iraqi Parliament approves amendment on vetoed elections law (Updated)

Mahma Khalil, an Iraqi MP from the Kurdistan Alliance bloc told PUKmedia exclusively that the parliament voted on the first suggestion to solve the issue of VP al-Hashimi’s veto, which states on using a 2.8% growth ratio for all the Iraqi provinces and adding it to the records of Iraqi ministry of trade of year 2005.

For his part, MP Khalid Shwani from the Kurdistan Alliance bloc said that the approved suggestion regarding the elections law achieves justice in distributing the parliamentary seats among all the Iraqi Provinces.

“The amended law insures the ability for all the immigrants to vote for their original provinces; either they were inside or outside Iraq. As for the Christians, Iraq will be considered a one electoral area to compete on the parliamentary seats that are allocated for them. This law is considered a good step towards achieving justice among all the Iraqi Provinces.”

“The parliament decided to reject the veto on the 3rd Article-4th Item regarding the way of calculating votes. The new law will be sent to the presidential council for ratification”, Shwani added.

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MP Osama Nujaifi: the new law the theft of the rights of the provinces and give it to the Kurdish provinces

MP Osama al-Nujaifi The first proposal made by the Kurdistan Alliance and coalitions have been paid to vote, despite the legal constitutional violations contained therein Knowing that he has been out 50 deputies from the Council Chamber.

Nujaifi said in a telephone conversation That "this article attempts to steal the seats in the province of Nineveh and Salahuddin province and Kirkuk And give To the northern provinces Dohuk, Erbil and Sulaymaniyah illegally."

He pointed out that the Nujaifi The second article in the electoral law Has not expired and provided for the adoption of voter registration for the year 2009 According to the latest census of the ration card This matter has not been adopted by the Presidency were asked to abstain from voting Material contrary to the Constitution and it is not acceptable And we consider it an encroachment on the rights of the provinces of Nineveh, Salahuddin, Kirkuk province for political purposes is unacceptable and is trying to change the direction of the House and trying to To cancel the role of this provincial cultural and historical. "According to the word Nujaifi.

He said the groups objecting Nujaifi support Overturn the law The new law that is harmful to the future Iraq, contrary to the case Dstrovi undone, it is the first veto of that there is a new article introduced the law."

He accused the Kurds Nujaifi delaying the elections for their insistence on a vote on a controversial article, "he said

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Iraqi offering cash to intermarry

BAGHDAD, Nov. 23 (UPI) -- Iraq is offering $2,000 cash to Shiites and Sunnis who intermarry to try to ease sectarian tension, officials said.

"The idea behind this project is that promoting love and socializing between Iraq's people is good for the country," said Raad Majeed Mohammed, an aide to Iraqi Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi.

Intermarriage between Shiites and Sunnis was relatively common before the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, when Saddam Hussein's Sunni-dominated regime was over thrown and Shiites came to power.

Intermarriage virtually stopped in 2006 after the bombing of the Shiite Askariya shrine in Sunni-dominated Samarra, USA Today reported Monday.

Now, sectarian tension has eased and Iraq's government has handed out the $2,000 gift to dozens of mixed couples in the last year. About dozen mixed couples are to receive the $2,000 gift at a mass wedding Friday in Baghdad in which the government also is paying for gowns for the brides, suits for the grooms and hotel rooms for the night. Lucky them!

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MP Ali Mayali: Denunciation of the election law again gain him become final and is effective

A member of the Iraqi parliament, MP Ali Mayali spokesman for the Sadrist bloc said members of Sadr's voted on the elections law in spite of the fear of veto or amendment by Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi, who adopt a particular component of the Sunni Mtbuniat.

Mayali said in a telephone conversation, Saying "because of this adoptive found that there was an agreement with a key and essential in the political process He is of the Accordance Front bloc, who refused dialogue of this law and I think that the law will invalidate again by Tariq al-Hashemi and returned to the House of Representatives and therefore does not Choice but Vote on it again and pass and send to the Presidency and thus have acquired a degree Deterministic and the Presidency Council has no right to challenge it again and is effective."

The Mayali that the Federal Court will decide on the objection submitted by a constitutional veto the bill, but there is no major role for the Federal Court in the case of elections Especially the law of elections As He became the demand can not be delayed any longer than that."

And Mayali said today's session saw the absence of the principle of consensus that we have tried hard reached between all the components within the Council of Representatives to ensure that the return The law again, and passes rapidly And therefore hold elections on schedule."

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Iraq parliament committee: Elections will be postponed & that the timing Vloyam Low

The Legal Committee of the Iraqi parliament, parliamentary elections will take place on schedule early next year, noting that if it will be postponed for a few days.

The Chairman said Bahaa al-Kurdistan, told news agency (AKnews) said Monday that "parliamentary elections will be held on time and was delayed a few days and ordered him no harm, especially after the House voted a majority for the Commission's proposal for the law, including the first article that contradicted Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi".

He explained that "the House of Representatives voted today to repeal its veto on the Law of the election and then voting on amendments to article I of this Act, the election may take place on time and if delayed will not be delayed more than a very few days."

Araji said that "minorities have had a paragraph in the law, especially the Christians because they are a major component and they were after the occupation of Iraq are too high, but security conditions have driven many of them to migrate to the outside so it will be for Christians a closed circuit and one eligible to vote, which at home and abroad, both to ensure represent them all."

Araji, did not hide his fears that invalidate the law once again by al-Hashemi, said that the majority vote today ensures response veto if the law was once again to the Parliament.

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Western experts: oil revenue could inflame the animosities devastating about how to divide the cake

Iraq hoped to contribute to the financial flow, which will get a result of increased oil production to three-fold in some reprieve from the chaos and achieve prosperity. But neutral in the opportunity to spark a new conflict, new wealth.

Iraq plans - the third largest oil reserves in the world - that occupies a third place in the list of the largest oil-producing countries in the exciting world of hope in the hearts of weary Iraqis fighting to pay the money the development process and the availability of jobs in the wake of decades of economic decline.

However, experts and Western officials say corruption is rampant and the political stalemate and ethnic conflicts around the oil-producing areas such as Kirkuk means that years of sectarian fighting could easily be followed by years of war to control oil. Said David Mack, a former U.S. envoy to work in Baghdad in the mid-sixties and late seventies of the last century "is not yet clear whether the Iraqi political class agree on how to use oil revenues to strengthen national unity, or whether they will engage in destructive rivalries over how to divide the cake."

According to Deepa Babington, it is questionable whether Iraq, which suffers from a bad state of infrastructure that can actually six years to raise oil production from its current level of 2.5 million barrels per day to seven million barrels a day. There is a high possibility that Iraq faces claims by OPEC members to return to the commitment of its share of productivity. But this does not negate the fact that a lesser degree increase production to four million barrels a day can make the Iraqi government an additional $ 45 billion annually, according to today's oil prices. In the view of analysts in the French Press Agency that the opportunity for massive damage more beneficial because of the sudden cash flow in countries such as Iraq, who are second from bottom in terms of per capita income in the slide from the lower middle-income countries in the Middle East and North Africa.

One of the risks in a large rise in inflation and the central bank loses control over interest rates.

Deepa Babington says that the distribution of oil revenues, could lead to resentment and anger are inevitable, which would then ignite the fire, tensions are running under the ashes, long among the Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds in a nation still trying to recover from a sectarian war in the wake of US-led invasion in 2003.

The City of Kirkuk in northern Iraq, a symbol of the challenges that lie ahead as the country's struggling government in Baghdad led by the Arab region with the authorities about who has the right to control and sign deals on oil fields in the surrounding areas.

A Western official who declined to be named, said he remained in control of the Shi'ite majority to oil production in southern Iraq and Kurdish control of oil fields are rich north, the Sunni minority, could end up feeling that they came out empty-handed. Explained Lisa Barzan Mercy Corps - which trains Iraqi leaders to resolve conflicts and mediation efforts - it's not certain that the Iraqis resort to settle their differences with guns and the future is not in words. The Barzan "Leaving aside the politics and the impact of special interest groups that promote violence, ordinary Iraqis are keen to negotiate." She added, "and incidents of violence over the decades, but if you look at the history of the situation is not the case. Violence is not part of the culture."

However, Iraq would have to devote most of what will happen to his fortune from oil in the beginning of infrastructure projects for the benefit of industry, which could arouse the anger of Iraqis who are looking to improve electricity and water services. The official said another Western "people will see the oil money into the country but will not spend as they wish."

Deepa Babington and see it in the longer term risk that Iraq becomes a state-controlled economy, and depends entirely on oil while neglecting the private sector. Oil accounts for already about 95 percent of the income of the Iraqi government. Then comes the issue of corruption so as to benefit a small elite of wealth in oil-producing countries such as Nigeria and Angola. Iraq occupies the fifth from the bottom of the Corruption Perception Index issued by Transparency International includes 180 countries in the world.

Says Daniel Dersnr professor at Tufts University "Given the size of Iraq's oil reserves, I think it should be patronized some of the wealth." He added: "This means that, given the extent of corruption in the Iraqi government would surprise me if people got more than a fraction of this income."

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