Baghdad The Parliamentary Legal Committee expected the possibility of presenting a proposal to amend the House of Representatives election law before holding the elections scheduled next October.
A member of the committee, Representative Hussein Al-Aqabi, said in a statement to the National Iraqi News Agency (NINA) that “the remaining time to present the proposal to amend the House of Representatives election law until the elections scheduled for next October allows this now.”
He added, “Most of the articles and paragraphs that can be reviewed and modified in the new law are technical issues that do not conflict with the date of holding the elections, due to the presence of some legal contradictions and loopholes, including those related to the biometric voting system.”
He explained, “Everyone talks about elections by biometric voting, but the reality of the new law allows voting via the previous electronic card and the biometric card as well, so voting must be legally limited to the biometric card.”
On December 16, the Presidency of the Council of Representatives agreed to a parliamentary request, accompanied by the signatures of 75 MPs from different blocs, to submit a proposal to amend the House of Representatives 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, provided that the elections take place on time on October 10, 2021.
Source: National Iraqi News Agency