URGENT: Iraq’s Parliament votes with majority on Integrity Commission’s Law

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: The Iraqi Parliament has voted with majority on the Integrity Commission’s Law, al-Iraqiya Coalition’s MP, Itab al-Douri reported on Saturday.   “The Parliament has voted with utmost majority on the Integrity Commission’s Law, after the attendance of the majority of its Members,” Douri told IraqiNews.com news agency, adding that “the law commits the government to nominate several names to hold the post of the Commission’s Chairman, in order to vote on the candidate with utmost majority.”   Noteworthy is that the former Chairman of the Integrity Commission, Rahim al-Ugeily, had resigned from his post, in the background of the Parliament’s delay of passing a law to organize the Commission’s activity and prevents collision of its authorities with the government’s executive institutions.   Iraq’s Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, had charged the Integrity Commission with failure to fight corruption in the State institutions, saying that it had been suffering from pressure and clashes among the political forces, causing the non-opening of several dossiers of corruption.   The Integrity Commission is an independent government commission, assigned with public integrity and fighting corruption, that was established in Iraq under the name of “General Integrity Commission,” according to a law, issued by the former Iraq’s Ruling Council, and it had been considered by the Permanent Constitution of 2005 as one of the independent Commissions, observed by the Parliament.   SKH (RT) 593