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CHAPTER ONE
Article One
The Republic of Iraq is an independent state.
Article Two
The political system is republican, parliamentary,
democratic and federal.
1. Islam is a main source for legislation.
- a. No law may contradict Islamic standards.
- b. No law may contradict democratic standards.
- c. No law may contradict the essential rights and
freedoms mentioned in this constitution.
2. This constitution guarantees the Islamic identity
of the Iraqi people and guarantees all religious
rights; all persons are free within their ideology
and the practice of their ideological practices.
3. Iraq is part of the Islamic world, and the Arabs
are part of the Arab nation.
4.
a. Arabic and Kurdish are the two official
languages, and Iraqis have the right to teach their
sons their mother language like the Turkomen and
Assyrian in the government educational institutes.
b. The language used orally in official institutions
such as the Parliament and the Cabinet as well as
official conventions should be one of the two
languages.
c. Recognizing the official documents with the two
languages.
d. Opening the schools with two languages.
Article Three
Federal institutions in Kurdistan should use the two
languages.
Article Four
The Turkomen and Assyrian languages are the official
languages in the Turkomen and Assyrian areas, and
each territory or province has the right to use its
own official language if residents have approved in
a general referendum vote.
Article Five
Power is transferred peacefully through democratic
ways.
Article Seven
1. Any organization that follow a racist, terrorist,
extremist, sectarian-cleaning ideology or circulates
or justifies such beliefs is banned, especially
Saddam's Baath Party in Iraq and its symbols under
any name. And this should not be part of the
political pluralism in Iraq.
2. The government is committed to fighting terrorism
in all its forms, and works to protect Iraqi soil
from being a center or passage for terrorist
activities.
CHAPTER TWO
Article 35
- a. Human freedom and dignity are guaranteed.
- b. No person can be detained or interrogated
without a judicial order.
- c. All kinds of physical and psychological torture
and inhumane treatment are prohibited, and any
confession is considered void if it was taken by
force, threats and torture. The person who was
harmed has the right to ask for compensation for the
financial and moral damage he/she suffered.
Article 36
The State guarantees:
1. Freedom of expression by all means.
2. Freedom of the press, printing, advertising and
publishing.
Article 37
Freedom to establish political groups and
organizations.
Article 39
Iraqis are free to abide in their personal lives
according to their religion, sects, beliefs or
choice. This should be organized by law.
CHAPTER THREE
Article 66
A presidential candidate should:
1. Be Iraqi by birth and the offspring of two Iraqi
parents.
2. Be no less than 40 years old.
3. Have a good reputation and political experience,
and be known as honest and faithful to the nation.
Article 75
The prime minister should have all the
qualifications as the presidential candidate and
should have a university degree or its equivalent
and should not be less than 35 years old.
Article 104
A general commission should be set up to observe and
specify the central (government) revenues, and the
commission should be made up of experts from the
central government, regions, provinces and
representatives.
CHAPTER FOUR
Article 107
Federal authorities should preserve Iraq's unity,
security, independence and sovereignty and its
democratic federal system.
Article 109
Oil and gas are the property of all the Iraqi people
in regions and provinces.
Article 110
The central government administers oil and gas
extracted from current wells, along with governments
of the producing regions and provinces, on the
condition that revenues are distributed in a way
that suits population distribution around the
country.
CHAPTER FIVE
Article 114
1. A region consists of one or more provinces, and
two or more regions have the right to create a
single region.
2. A province or more has the right to set a region
according to a referendum called for in one of two
ways:
- a. A demand by one-third of all members of each of
the provincial councils that aims to set up a
region.
- b. A demand by one-tenth of voters of the
provinces that aim to set up a region.
Article 117
A region's legislative authority is made up of one
council, named the National Assembly of the region.
Article 118
The National Council of the region drafts the
region's constitution and issues laws, which must
not contradict this constitution and Iraq's central
laws.
Article 120
The executive authority of the region is made up of
the president of the region and the region's
government.
Article 128
The region's revenues are made up from the specified
allotment from the national budget and from the
local revenues of the region.
Article 129
The regional government does what is needed to
administer the region, especially setting up
internal security forces, such as police, security
and region guards.
Article 135
This constitution guarantees the administrative,
political, cultural and educational rights of
different ethnic groups such as Turkomen, Chaldean,
Assyrians and other groups.
CHAPTER SIX
Article 144
The Iraq Supreme Criminal Court continues its work
as a legislative, independent commission to look
into the crimes of the former dictatorial regime and
its symbols, and the Council of Deputies has the
right to annul it after it ends its duties.
Article 145
a. The Supreme National Commission for de-Baathification
continues its work as an independent commission, in
coordination with the judicial authority and
executive institutions and according to laws that
organize its work.
b. Parliament has the right to dissolve this
commission after it ends its work, with a two-thirds
majority.
Article 151
No less than 25 percent of Council of Deputies seats
go to women.
Article 153
This law is considered in force after people vote on
it in a general referendum and when it is published
in the official Gazette and the Council of Deputies
is elected according to it.
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