Calls for activating the role of the presidency and the Kurdistan confirms: Provides advice and seek to stop the bloodshed

Calls for activating the role of the presidency and the Kurdistan confirms: Provides advice and seek to stop the bloodshed


Author: AB, MK
Editor: AB
10/07/2016 17:34



Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi third from right and next to House Speaker Salim al-Jubouri and Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari, the leader of the Islamic Supreme Council Ammar al-Hakim and President Fuad Masum, from left during the memorial anniversary of the death of the founder of the Council Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, on Saturday (April 9, 2016) .

Long-Presse / Baghdad

MPs called, on Sunday, to activate the role of the presidency to provide international support for Iraq and dry up the sources of terrorism, while others have their role criticized the "meet the challenges and events in the country", demanding the dismissal of the three presidencies, the Kurdistan Alliance, stressed that "the president was doing everything in his power to bloodshed Iraqis ".

The MP said the coalition of state law Mohammed Chihod in an interview to the (long-Presse), "The role of the president is no different from the role of other institutions that are not commensurate with the size of the challenges and events that are facing the country," calling for "real reform by changing the people who accrued from quotas. "

The MP for the Reform bloc, "the Ministry of Defense of sectarianism and internal Balhzbah, and National Security, Ministry of Family," stressing the need to "change the three presidencies, including the President of the Republic."

Promised MP for the coalition of state law, led by Nuri al-Maliki, "President Fuad Masum, live in a valley, in Iraq, in another valley," revealing that "the reform front in the process of collecting signatures for the dismissal of the President of the Parliament, which is an obstacle to reforms, first followed by steps to change the rest of step presidencies, "and urged the political blocs to" support this move. "

Calls for activating the role of the presidency in the provision of international support and drying up funding Daash

In turn, described the role of the liberal bloc president of the republic as the "honorary", urging him to take action to provide international support for Iraq and dry up the sources of terrorist financing.

The MP said the bloc Majid Jabbar said in an interview to the (long-Presse), "The role of the president is nothing more than Therifia role, while the operational procedures in the confines of security and other issues, however, the government and the Interior Ministry."

He called Jabbar, President of the Republic to "move internationally to provide international support for Iraq and dry up funding for the organization Daash, especially since there are regional countries support the organization with money and weapons."

Kurdistan Alliance: the president 's role is limited to counseling and doing his utmost to stop the bloodshed

Turn between the Kurdistan Alliance, the role of the presidency is limited to consultation, as he emphasized, "the keenness of President Fuad Masum, the injection of the blood of Iraqis."

The MP said the coalition Abdul Bari Zebari said in an interview to the (long-Presse), "The executive powers limited, however, the Council of Ministers and the General Command of the Armed Forces, headed by Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, while the role of the President of the Republic on the consultation is limited," stressing that "the President of the Republic Fuad Masum do everything possible in accordance with the constitutional powers to stop the bloodshed in the country. "

Zebari revealed, for "political meetings were held in the home of the President of the Republic, before the Karrada incident on the third of July," noting that "infallible actors will bring together political forces in the country once again to find solutions to political and security problems in the country."

Article 67 of the Constitution provides that "the President is the head of state and the symbol of unity of the nation, represents the sovereignty of the country and oversees the guarantees of adherence to the constitution, and the preservation of Iraq's independence, sovereignty, unity, territorial integrity, and in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution."

As give Article 73 of the Constitution, a number of powers that is the enactment of the recommendation of the Prime Minister pardons, except in relation to the private right, and convicts committing international crimes, terrorism and financial and administrative corruption, and the ratification of the treaties and agreements and ratify and promulgate laws enacted by the House of Representatives, and the granting of awards and medals recommendation of the Prime Minister, according to the law and to issue presidential decrees, and to ratify the death sentences issued by the competent courts, the Supreme command of the armed forces of the ceremonial and commemoration purposes.

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