Adhamiya News published the text of the new draft election law sent to the House of Representatives

Adhamiya News published the text of the new draft election law sent to the House of Representatives



Monday, February 20, 2017 - 22:23 GMT

Adhamiya News published a draft election of the new Council of Representatives sent by the presidency to the parliament law, the presidency announced on Monday, sending a draft election of the new Council of Representatives to the Parliament Act.

The draft of the proposed law, according to the Presidency of the Republic, that the president is the one who sets the election date after coordination with the Council of Ministers and the Commission before the date of the ballot no later than (90) days.

The bill requires that the available candidate for membership in the Council additional conditions as well as the legal conditions including that at least the age of the candidate for (25) years when the nomination should have obtained a junior certificate or its equivalent in the least, and not convicted of a crime involving moral turpitude by a court judgment is, and not have to belong to members of the armed forces, or all of the security institutions when his candidacy, and that it is not working in the commission members, including members of the board of Commissioners and general managers, but after termination of employment no later than four years.

The text of the draft law on the distribution of electoral constituencies on the basis of electoral districts for each province, stated that the parliament consists of 328 seats, of which (318) to the provinces, according to the administrative borders with go seats (10) of the remaining ten as quotas for components , six of which the Christian component at a rate of one seat to the provinces of Nineveh, Irbil and Dahuk, Kirkuk and two seats for Baghdad, one Armenian, and one seat for each of the two components Yezidi and networking in Nineveh, and one component Sabian Mandaean in Baghdad and one for the Kurds Faili in Baghdad.

As for the distribution of seats on the competing entities, the bill proposes a mixed system was adopted as the text that distributes half of the seats in the constituency according to a mechanism in which the order of the sequence of candidates re all in all menus, Based on the number of votes obtained by each of them, and be the first winner of the won highest number of votes in all the lists in the province within a single constituency apart from the list, and this applies to the rest of the candidates.

As half of the remaining seats are distributed on the menus according to the total number of votes obtained by each list, in a single constituency according to the system (St. Leko 1.5 to 3 - 5-7 average - 9 - etc.), so as to rearrange the sequence of candidates based on the number of votes obtained by each of them, and be the first winner who gets the highest number of votes, and so on for the rest of the candidates.

The bill states that the number of women at least 25% of the total number of candidates on the list, taking into account also imposes ensure women's access to (25%) in the least number of seats under the same mentioned mechanisms.

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