Speaker: Constitutional Court didn’t overturn Hashemi’s veto
November 19, 2009 - 12:46:28
BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: Iraqi Parliament Speaker Iyad al-Samarraie on Thursday said that the country’s Constitutional Court did not overturn Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi’s veto of the election law, adding that a parliamentary vote will be held this Saturday to settle the issue.
“The Constitutional Court has affirmed that Iraqis inside and outside Iraq are equal. The court’s opinion does not mean that it has overturned the veto,” Samarraie said during a press conference held at the headquarters of the Iraqi Parliament, which was attended by Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
Samarraie’s statements came shortly after the head of the Iraqi Front for National Dialogue, Saleh al-Mutlaq, denied that the Constitutional Court had described Hashemi’s veto of the election law as “unconstitutional.”
Earlier today, the head of the parliamentary legal committee, Hadi al-Aameri, said that the court had rejected Hashemi’s veto as “unconstitutional.”
Yesterday (Nov. 18), the Iraqi Sunni vice president vetoed the country’s general election law, ordering it back to the Parliament, which had taken almost three months to pass it.
Hashemi objected to Article I of the law, which he said did not give a voice to Iraqis abroad, many of whom are Sunnis who fled the country during sectarian clashes after the US-led invasion in 2003.
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