Parliament of the Kurdistan region to ratifies the territory constitution

Ankawa Kum - Arbil - the parliament building

In a striking development expected to receive the consent of the unionist among our people, the Parliament of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region ratified today the draft Constitution of the Territory, where it recognized the Standard name of our people, without dashes or commas.

The project received 96 votes which is the vast majority of the 97 total deputies who attended the meeting, there was only one deputy who opposed it.

"ankawa.com " had a number of meetings with people at the the parliamentary corridors of the parliament building, Kalita, a young man from the Assyrian Democratic Movement stated, "The problem was in the article (5) from the draft, related yo the identity of our people which it was corrected pursuant to numerous and lengthy discussions in the past few days

Kalita confirmed that he had planned to either boycott the meeting or vote against the draft constitution in the event the article was rejected by the Parliament or delete altogether.

"I voted for the constitution, although I disagreed with some of other material. It is very important that our people are not divided," he said.

Jameil Owaid of the Chaldean Cultural Society, said, "the Constitution recognized our religion and national identity, especially in Article (5) on the national identity, and also in the article (29) on the national rights and rule (6) on the religious identity, and article 30 on religious rights, particularly one paragraph in the Constitution provides for the imposition of inadmissibility of a personal religion, a religion, "he said.

Owaid said, "According to Article (35), the administrative rights are guaranteed, including self-government, and the text of the new constitution to take account of the cabinet reshuffle of the components of other non-Kurdish."

Owaid pointed out that he was "surprised to read the Constitution when he received it today about the name of our of our people, when the draft was distributed earlier in the day that it had maintained the standard name which our people preferred to be known by."

Owaid asserted that this is not finalized yet, there will be a referendum among the sons of our people on the label, according to the Constitution.

The right of a people to hold a referendum on the materials they deem necessary. "

Owaid also said: "The vote today on the constitution does not guarantee all the aspirations of our people, but it took into account the wishes of everyone."

The Romeo Hakkari, secretary of the Democratic Party Nahrin House, said: "Finally put to the vote by the overwhelming majority of the members of parliament on the draft constitution, and we are the representatives of our people in the parliament, we had a few days ago, we were satisfied that the standard formula name formula for our people was included in the draft before the vote, but the efforts of all good representatives of our people and our demands have been introduced and the form which we wanted was to confirm the name we are known by confirm that we are one people. This is the first time that our rights have been recognized the Constitution of the region. "

Andrius Yuhana from the Assyrian Democratic Movement, said that as a result of the continuing and serious follow-up at all levels by the representatives of our people in the Parliament through the provision of protests to the three representatives in the region (except the representative of Chaldean Democratic Union Party, who had opposed to the designation of a united people) those efforts have paid off. Parliament passed the standard name of our (Chaldean Assyrian Syriac), which reflects the will of our people, as well as to ensure our other national rights by a number of articles of the Constitution , although we hope some items will be amends by Parliament as part of subsequent amendments. "

To the same effect, the President of the Kurdistan parliament, Adnan Mufti, after the ratification of the Constitution of Kurdistan, a press conference, has been raised by a reporter why the nomenclature (Assyrians, Chaldeans, Syriac) on our people.

In response to a question, Mufti replied that majority of members of parliament from the Assyrians, Chaldeans, Syriac (four out of five) called for this name, and therefore we decided to adopt it.