Current Parliament inherits previous parliament’s violations, MP

KARBALA / IraqiNews.com: The Legislature from the National Alliance, Ali al-Kurdi, has charged the current Iraqi Parliament with having inherited the violations of the previous parliament, including failure to hold MPs absent from the parliament sessions accountable. “The current Parliament has inherited the violations of the previous parliament, including failure to hold MPs absent from the parliament sessions accountable,” Kurdi told IraqiNews.com news agency, calling on the new parliament speaker to “prove the potential to practice the parliament‘s internal system on all MPs, including the leaders of political blocs.” “The parliament‘s current debates are not taking place in a competant and genuine form, due to act that its committees had not been formed yet and the new internal system had not been accomplished,” he noted, calling for the discussion of the MPs salaries and other topics, upon the completion of the said committees. The representative of the Supreme Shiite Religious Leader, Sayid Ali al-Sistani, in Karbala, Sheikh Abdul-Mahdi al-Karbalae, demanded, in his Friday address, the accounting of MPs, who have been receiving high salaries and “illusionary” allocations for their protection guards, demanding the laying down of an internal system that practices severe decisions against any MP, who does not attend the parliament meetings, similar to any employee or student. SKH/SR 34