Today was supposed to be a very important day for the Iraqi Parliament. Our lawmakers should discuss the most important law, THE ELECTION LAW. The election law is one of the most important steps in the new Democratic Iraq because it sets the roles for the coming election in next January. The coming election will be one of the critical and final steps for Iraq Unity and Stability.
The Iraqi Parliament consists of 275 lawmakers who were elected by us (people of Iraq) when we practiced the Democracy of Iraq in 2005. To be accurate and honest. We voted for parties that we used to trust at that time because the old election law adopted what was named (the close list system) which means that a voter votes only to a party or entity or coalition but not individuals.
After the forming of the government, most of Iraqis realized that they had either made a wrong choice or even felt sorry for going to the election.
Back to today.
I was talking to one of the employees of the parliament presidency and he told me "we did not have a formal session today because there was no quorum." More than 138 IRAQI LAWMAKERS did not attend the most important session that should approve the most important law while most of them were present and so active when the parliament discussed the law related to their privileges. In fact, we have tens of lawmakers who did not attend more than few session since 2005 and we have some that I saw only during the first session only.
I do not know if we really voted for Iraqi lawmakers or a bunch of merchants who only work for their interests.
Sounds a lot like the US lawmakers! Guess they learned how to operate by watching us. They are well on their way to a democratic state just like ours.
Posted by: HGT | October 30, 2009 at 06:42 AM
It's too bad your story today isn't widely known in the US. Thanks for the update.
Posted by: corporatemohawk | October 29, 2009 at 06:57 PM