Impact of the Iraqi Council of Representatives Elections Act No. (9) of 2020 on the Representation of Disputed Areas (an Analytical Study)

Abstract

After a long debate and a wide political debate about the proposed draft Iraqi Parliament elections law for the year 2020 AD, submitted by the President of the Republic, and under the pressure of the demonstrators in the sit-in squares, the parliament approved it and Iraq turned into multiple constituencies, and thus the electoral system was changed in effect through the division of Iraq Singles into small circles. Among the most important changes that this law brought about is Article 15 and 16. It considered that the number of electoral districts in each governorate should be equal to the number of seats allocated to women in those governorates, and the nomination is individual within the electoral district, which is what the Kurdish political forces objected to, and the reason for that is that this change will effect On the seats for representing the Kurdish nationalism in the regions, Article 140 of the constitution or the so-called disputed areas that were and are still the subject of political and administrative debate between the Kurdistan Region and the central government, and we see this article is the steel of the electoral system on the basis of which each seat will be considered a quota of one electoral district in the governorate And it has a direct impact in that area.. Therefore, this study deals with the most important influences of the new law for the House of Representatives elections in the disputed areas. Soon, these regions undergo continuous changes, so the study focuses on answering the basic question represented by the impact of the new law on organizing the electoral process for these regions. In order to reach this, the changes taking place and the factors affecting them for the study area were studied, the problems that occur in it and the and put the proposed solution to it.