Kurdistan Parliament approves draft constitution

Kurdistan Parliament approves draft constitution

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Kurdistan Parliament approves draft constitution 24.6.2009

June 24, 2009 ERBIL-Hewler, Kurdistan region 'Iraq', — The Kurdistan region’s Parliament on Wednesday passed the draft constitution with an overwhelming majority. Ninety-six parliamentarians out of a total of 97 who attended today’s session have voted in favor of the bill. “Today is a historic day for our people…Now we have a constitution,” Speaker Adnan al-Dulaimi said during the session. The constitution was read in Arabic and Kurdish. Also on Wednesday, seven Kurdish lawmakers withdrew from the parliament’s session protesting the attempt to approve the region’s constitution and to hold referendum on it along with the parliamentary elections.	The Kurdistan region’s Parliament
Sulaimaniyah's provincial council on June 18, called on the president of Iraq’s Kurdistan region, Massoud Barzani,www.ekurd.net to postpone the ratification of the draft constitution and to put it to a public referendum. “A referendum will be carried out on the constitution draft ahead with the parliamentary elections,www.hawlati.net which will be held on July 25th. The Independent High Electoral Commission requested to study the ability of carrying out the referendum with the elections”, he added. The Independent High Electoral Commission IHEC had set July 25 as the date for parliamentary elections in the Kurdistan region. The elections will coincide with the presidential polls. A total of 507 candidates from several political blocs and alliances are competing for 111 seats in the upcoming parliamentary polls. Parliamentary polls in the region were scheduled to be held on May 19, but were postponed due to the Parliament’s endorsement of the amended law on elections. 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