2023-07-20 07:30
Shafaq News / The second deputy speaker of the House of Representatives, Shakhwan Abdullah, announced on Thursday the reactivation of the Article 140 constitutional committee to settle the files of those affected by the previous regime.
Abdullah said during a press conference held in the parliament building with the participation of members of the parliamentary committee on Article 140, and attended by the correspondent of Shafaq News Agency, that “the interim committee formed in the House of Representatives to follow up the work of the Article 140 committee of the Constitution, which was disabled for more than 10 years, was activated again after the political blocs agreed to do so.”
He pointed out that “there are thousands of transactions for those affected by the policies of the defunct regime under Article 140, and that we have noted through representatives of the provinces that there are many files and the truth is that the amount allocated for compensation by the government in the budget law of 2023 does not cover compensation.”
He pointed out that “the committee, Article 140, needs four trillion dinars, while the budget allocation is only 100 billion dinars, and after efforts, another 100 billion dinars were transferred to become 200 billion dinars, and a mechanism has been established to disburse compensation.”
Abdullah stressed that “there are weekly periodic meetings for the work of the Article 140 Committee to push for its real activation and completion of its tasks, including the development of the necessary legislation and the cancellation of the decisions of the Revolutionary Command Council that unfair to the rights of the sons of many governorates.”
Abdullah thanked the government for voting on the draft law to cancel the decisions of the Revolutionary Command Council.
He pointed out that “the first task of the Article 140 Committee will be to seek to receive the draft law from the government and approve it to ensure the restoration of the rights of farmers, and there will be a state committee in cooperation with the government committee to reach the entitlements of citizens in all governorates, including the southern governorates, which have not received compensation, in addition to the governorates of Kirkuk, Diyala and Nineveh.”
Article 140 provides for the abolition of the policies of demographic change pursued by the regime of Saddam Hussein in the disputed areas in favor of the Arabs at the expense of the Kurds, and then counting the population before the last step of holding a referendum under which the population determines, whether they wish to join the Kurdistan Region or remain under the administration of Baghdad.
The implementation phases of the article were scheduled to be completed until the end of 2007 but security and political problems prevented this.
The Federal Supreme Court ruled in 2019 that Article 140 of the Constitution of the Republic of Iraq shall remain in force, stressing that this continues until its requirements are implemented and the goal of its legislation is achieved.
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