Baghdad The Parliamentary Legal Committee confirmed that there is no official request to postpone the date of the elections scheduled for next October.

Committee member MP Almas Fadel stated, in a statement to the National Iraqi News Agency / NINA /: “The talk about postponing the elections so far, are opinions and observations circulated by MPs and representatives of various political blocs, but it did not crystallize to submit any official request to postpone the elections from their scheduled date in October 10 next.

She added, “The House of Representatives will proceed with dissolving itself with the completion of the technical and logistical preparations for the upcoming elections in October, and this does not contradict the constitutional texts, because Parliament will dissolve itself automatically before the elections.”

On the possibility of amending the new election law, she explained, “The demands for an amendment to the law are proposals under discussion within the Legal Committee, but do not rise to legislation during the remaining time of the current term.”

Regarding setting the date of the provincial council elections, a member of the Parliamentary Legal Committee said, “There are different parliamentary views and proposals on the date of the provincial council elections, including whether it is with the Parliament elections or after it,” indicating that “the legal committee has not officially decided on setting the date for the provincial council elections “.

On December 16, the Presidency of the House of Representatives approved a parliamentary request, accompanied by the signatures of 75 MPs from different blocs, to submit a proposal to amend the Parliament’s election law, and decided to refer it to the Parliamentary Legal Committee to mature the legal drafting.

The House of Representatives voted, in its evening session at the end of last March, to dissolve Parliament on October 7, 2021, with elections to be held on October 10, 2021.

Source: National Iraqi News Agency