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Maliki withdraws his invitation for an excptional parliamentary meeting

Monday, February 8th 2010 4:17 PM

Baghdad, Feb. 8 (AKnews) A member in the Iraqi parliament said on Monday that the Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki decided today, to withdraw his invitation to the Parliament to hold an excptional meeting to discuss the decision of the Discriminatory Committee that belongs to the Accountability and Justice.

"The Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki asked to delete the exceptional meeting because he thinks there is no real need to be heldt since the Discriminatory Committee has began studying the appeals submitted to it from the excluded participants in the upcoming legislative elections". MP Abbas Al Bayyati told The Independent National News Agency of Kurdistan (AKnews).

A member in Kurdistan Alliance Bloc Mahma Khalil said to (AKnews) that "The Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki decided on Wednesday morning, in an official letter sent to the parliament, to withdraw his call for a meeting because the Discriminatory Committee started considering the appeals submitted to it."

Khalil said that :"The report of the Discriminatory Committee which was sent to The Parliament today, included the withdrawal of the Commission for a decision had  been issued earlier and that it started considering the appeals and will finish it in the next two days."

The parliament planned to convene a special session today after postponing it on Sunday to consider the decision of the Discriminatory Committee that defer the consideration of the resolutions of Accountability and Jstice about the excluded candidates for the next parliamentary elections, the thing that some political parties considered as a surpass on the Constitution and the Iraqi law.

Rn/Nn (AKnews)

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