Monday, June 24, 2013

The new provincial law stirs debate between the political blocs in Iraq
Published       25/06/2013 12:45 AM
 Babinaoz - Agencies : the day after the Iraqi parliament by majority vote on the second amendment to the law of provincial councils, including grants broad powers, including the security authorities, Turkmen threatened to eliminate Tuz Panevsalhm for Salahuddin province, in the event of failure to respond to their demands. And despite the fact that this threat is not directly related to the adoption of this law, it is, under the direction of the parliament to discuss the draft law amending the administrative boundaries of the provinces, there are signs of a severe political crisis between the political blocs on it. In an apparent amend the law governorates not organized province gives greater powers to local governments and reduce the power center, the Act to amend the administrative border of the provinces that would eliminate the provinces complete, such as Salah al-Din, which was tracking some أقضيتها, such as Tuz, Kirkuk, Samarra to Baghdad, or a sharp blow sectarian differences between the provinces of Anbar and Karbala on spend Nukhaib, disputed between the two provinces. The leader of the Turkmen Mohammed al-Bayati threatened, in the absence of the government's response to the demands of the protesters Turkmen in Tuz, who started since the days of sit-in against the backdrop of the deteriorating security situation in the judiciary, to declare the separation of the judiciary from Salahuddin province, and cut the road in Daquq and Taza, and the formation of the province of Turkmen.
comes developments in the district of Tuz at a time when the relationship between the central government and many provinces, especially Western ones, as well as the relationship with the Kurdistan region, almost continuous crisis, due to the financial powers and security in the first place.
 
In this context, it was the second amendment to the provincial law passed by parliament majority, despite the withdrawal of a large number of deputies State of Law coalition led by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, who objected to the expansion of the powers of the provinces on the powers of the center.
 
In this context, warned the Chairman of the Security and Defense Committee in the Iraqi parliament for a coalition of state law, Hassan Sinead, that the amendment to the law on the powers of the provinces irregular province contrary to the Constitution, and would lead to large errors. He said Sinead, in a press conference held in the building of the Iraqi parliament that the amendment «will lead to solving the federal police», indicating that «the Federal Police have tasks federal, rather than local, unchanged Like border guards, traffic and civil status, which manages شؤونا federal, and not a private district without the other », pointing out that the amendment was voted on yesterday« excludes these federal police power of the Federal Supreme, and put under the authority of the provinces ». 
, for its part, announced that the Kurdistan Alliance bloc in the Iraqi parliament that «Iraq is a federal country federal, and therefore the adoption of this law is consistent with the Iraqi constitution completely. A member of the Iraqi parliament, the Kurdistan Alliance bloc, Mahmoud Othman, told «Middle East» that «the law was voted by majority vote, and it was objected to, especially deputies from the coalition of state law, is being gives wide powers to the provinces combine what is the administrative, financial and security ».
 
 

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