Abdul Mahdi’s office: new election law reduced the seats in parliament to 251

“The new draft electoral law sent by the government to the House of Representatives contains many advantages and meets the demands that call for the independence of the Commission and the amendment of the electoral system,” Prime Minister Dr. Asifa Moussa’s press office said Sunday.

“The new law guarantees the independence of the Commission from political quotas through the adoption of specific mechanisms that allow the formation of commissions and the assignment of its members from various professional parties, namely the Supreme Judicial Council and the Shura Council,” Moussa said in a statement to the official news agency Wana. State, the Office of Financial Supervision and professors of political science and information technology faculties. ”

He added, “The law will remove the Commission completely from the authority of the Council of Representatives and the Council of Ministers, whether appointment or dismissal, as the appointment of general directors of the authority of the Council of Commissioners and the power of the House of Representatives and ministers to appoint them, and will reduce the number of general managers to seven directors after they were 38 general managers “.

“The law requires the commission to announce the electoral data and the speed of the announcement of the results.”

“In light of the new law, the seats in the House of Representatives will be reduced to 251, allowing young people to run by lowering the nomination age to 25,” the spokeswoman said.

He pointed out that “the new law prevents senior officials in the government, and even a director general from running for the House of Representatives, only after leaving the position for a period of not less than two years, and prevents the winner from switching from the House of Representatives to fill the post of minister or the rank of minister.”

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