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Expert: Last day to determine the date of the first parliamentary session is 15/06/2010

2010-06-08 02:12:07

(Voice of Iraq) – BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: the legal expert Tareq Harb, Monday, that the Presidency is determined by the date of the first session of the House of Representatives in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution, noting that the last day to determine the hearing date is 15 June this month.

The War Agency (Voices of Iraq) that “the scheduling of the first session of the new parliament is the prerogative of the Presidential Council in accordance with the provisions of Article 138 of the Constitution.”

The first paragraph of Article 138 is constitutional: The expression “the Presidency Council replace the expression” President of the Republic wherever it appears in this constitution, and regulations for the President of the Republic, after one session of the subsequent entry into force of this Constitution. The second paragraph states in part: House of Representatives shall be elected as Chairman of the State and two Vice Presidents who shall form a council called the Presidential Council, is elected by one list and two-thirds majority.

And a war that “further to determine the duration of the meeting of parliament’s first (15/06/2010), has been invited by President Jalal Talabani to prepare for a few days before the meeting, but in the June 15 ending the period prescribed legally and constitutionally to determine the time.”

Article 54 of the Constitution: the president invites the Council to convene a presidential decree within fifteen days from the date of certification of the election results, and the meeting will be held under the chairmanship of the oldest member, to elect a Speaker and two deputies, may not be extended for more than the period mentioned above.

The Federal Supreme Court announced on (06.01.2010) ratifying the final results of general elections for membership of the House of Representatives in 2010 on the forms approved by the Electoral Commission for elections based on the provisions of the seventh paragraph of Article 93 of the Constitution of the Republic of Iraq.

And how long that can remain the first session of the Parliament are open, said the war “The meeting is open is the norm constitutional and not a constitutional basis and no problem of being open, so long as the practice of the reality of political entities and large variations and the dispersion of votes and the absence of a large list can collect lists involve other underneath, all the justification given to the new Council of Representatives the opportunity to make the session open after the swearing-in. “

The Iraqi President Jalal Talabani sent a letter to the leaders of political blocs winners are required to submit proposals to him on the timing of the first session of parliament which, according to the Constitution should be calling her President of the Republic two weeks after the ratification of the Federal Court on the election results, and come to invite Talabani after six days Authentication federal court on the entire election resultslast day to determine the date of the first parliamentary session is 15/6