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The Council of Representatives held on 1/4/2013 the sixteenth session of the second legislative term for the third year under chairmanship of Osama Al-Nujaifi, the Speaker of Council of Representatives. The session included the following:
- Presence 175 members.
- The Speaker of the Council announced that the response of the General Secretariat of the Cabinet regarding hosting commander in chief of the armed forces and security leaders contained an objection to respond to the request of hosting due to lack of prior coordination, pointing out that the General Secretariat reported that there is no possibility to hold a plenary and public session to discuss the security situation because of its impact on the country security and citizen with willingness to hold a limited and confidential session includes the leaders of the blocs and the heads of the committees in the Cabinet.
- The Presidency postponed voting on the validity of the membership of MP (Thamer Ibrahim Zahir) submitted by the legal committee for the lack of a two-third majority needed to prove the membership.
- The Council voted on the draft law of registration, adoption and protection of the agricultural varieties, submitted by the committee of agriculture, water and marshes.
- The Council finished the second reading of the draft law to amend the law of social care No.(126) of 1980, submitted by the committee of labor and social affairs.
- The Council discussed the issue of contamination of irrigation channel in Husseiniya River in Karbala after voting to add it in the agenda at the request of MP Iman Al-Moussawi signed by 50 MPs.
The session was adjourned until Wednesday 3/4/2013. |
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