Lawmaker: Parl. to settle election law dispute soon

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: The Iraqi Parliament will settle the dispute arising over the election law by voting on two proposals submitted by the Iraqi National Alliance and the Kurdistan Alliance, and the United Nations, the head of the parliamentary legal committee said on Monday. “The Parliament will resolve the election law crisis within half an hour…,” Araji said during a press conference held at the headquarters of the Iraqi Parliament and broadcasted by al-Iraqiya TV. On Wednesday (Nov. 18), Sunni Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi vetoed the country’s general election law, ordering it back to the Parliament, which had taken almost three months to pass it. Hashemi objected to Article I of the law, which he said did not give a voice to Iraqis abroad, many of whom are Sunnis who fled the country during sectarian clashes after the US-led invasion in 2003. SS (P) 1