Hakim calls for legislating law to regulate elections timing

Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) The head of the Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council, Ammar al-Hakim, called the Parliament to legislate a law that would set clear timings for the electoral operations and obliges all sides to conduct elections every four years.

During his speech at the weekly cultural meeting held in his office in Baghdad on Wednesday, he said “All elections should be conducted according to constitutional timings.”

He stressed that “The national dialogue is a must in this phase and serves the citizen and the country,” noting that “Return of the Iraqi President, Jalal Talabani, to Iraq created a several chances for dialogues and meetings that would relief the current political crisis through mutual concessions given by all blocs and support for Talabani’s initiatives.”

Hakim also expressed his concerns towards the remarkable security deterioration in the country through the organized assassination attempts that targets politicians, intellectuals, businessmen and religious men in addition to repeated targeting of security elements and officers, calling to adopt more developed intelligence techniques.

Speaking about corruption, the head of the SIIC said “We can see corruption clearly spread in our country through the clear difference among the categories of the society since we have extremely rich people and on the other hand we have very poor people,” stressing that “We should fight this discrimination through a fair distribution of Iraqi revenues among the people.”

He also highlighted the initiative of the Iraqi Red Crescent to provide humanitarian supplies for the Syrian People, demanding all involved sides to end fighting and blood shedding in Syria.