Political leaders forbid endorsing Federal Court, Political Parties’ law drafts
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) MP Azad Abu Bakr of the Legal Committee justified delay of legislating the Federal Court Law draft and the Parties Law draft by the “lack of accordance among the leaders of political blocs over these law drafts.”
He said in a statement to Iraqi News (IraqiNews.com) Saturday that "The Legal Committee completed its work on the law of the Federal Court, where it was discussed and submitted for the purpose of endorsement in Parliament but this law draft is still waiting because the heads of blocs have not agreed on the number of members of the Federal Court."
He added that "Among the differences that hinder the heads of blocs from approving this law draft is the number of the Shariya (Islamic scholars) members of the court in comparison to judges since some politicians prefer to have equal numbers while others do not.”
MP Abu Bakr said that "This law in addition to the law of the Supreme Judicial Council is important to organize the judicial work because the government operates now according to Bremer’s legislations which must be canceled and replaced by new laws to organize the work of the new Federal Court and the judiciary in general.”
He pointed out that “The Parliamentary Legal Committee has discussed the Parties Law with civil society organizations as well as representatives of the parties and submitted a report to the Chairmanship of the Parliament which is hoped to be discussed during coming sessions of Parliament."
Concerning the current political crisis, MP Abu Bakr said that "The current situation does not serve the interests of the country or the citizens,” noting that “Everyone is supposed to resort to the Constitution and signed agreements and adopt dialogue as a way out from this crisis."
He explained that "The Ahrar bloc did not withdraw from the issue of withdrawing confidence from the Premier, but it does not want to be the side that will interrogate the Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in Parliament.”