The Council of Representatives held on 24/7/2013 the tenth session of the first legislative term for the fourth year under chairmanship of Osama Al-Nujaifi, the Speaker of Council of Representatives. The session included the following:
- Attendance 240 MPs.
- Mr. Al-Nujaifi stressed on the importance of increasing the speed of action of the parliamentary committee formed on the events of Abu Ghraib and Al-Taji prisons to go to the areas of the incident and submit a report to the Council of Representatives.
- The Speaker of the Council of Representatives announced on submitting the budget of the Council in the next Sunday's session to discuss its items and the reasons of increasing financial allocations.
- Voting to approve the nomination of the judges of the appeals chamber members responsible for hearing the appeals submitted on the decisions of the Accountability and Justice Commission submitted by the legal committee. It includes each of gentlemen Saadi Sadiq Ahmed al-Obeidi, Obeid Nael Awad al-Saidi, Muthana Ahmed Jassim Al Shafei, Zeydoun Saadoun Bashar Judy al-Saidi and Fattah Kamel Hindi al-Shammari. It has also been voted on the substitute judges each of gentlemen Mohammad Rajab Bakri al-Kubaisi and Hamid Obeid Hajwal al-Jubouri.
- Mr. Al-Nujaifi emphasized that the statement of the legal committee included submitting an apology by MP Mahmoud Hassan for what happened in the previous session, where the apology was accepted and the demise of any objection preventing him from participating in the works of the Council.
- The second reading of the draft law on ratification of the convention on economic cooperation and trade development between the Government of Republic of Iraq and the Government of Republic of Czech submitted by the committees of foreign relations, economy and investment.
- The Council completed discussing the proposed law of Union Council submitted by the committees of regions and provinces, legal.
-The second reading of the draft law of rehabilitation of inmates and arrested people submitted by the committees of labor and social affairs, legal, security and defense.
It was decided to adjourn the session until Thursday 25/7/2013. |