Legal Regulation of Parliamentary Equivalence in Iraq
Author: Ahmed Ali Abbood Al-Khafaji
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Abstract- To ensure the independence of the MP from the executive power and not to be subject to material without any pressure from any party was required to have a reasonable income as the deputy full and abandon all his other work is not allowed to do any work with the government or companies or to hire them, Which allows him to carry out his work as representative of the people, and the countries approved an alternative to his service to ensure the existence of the so-called (parliamentary equivalent).
States have differed in organizing this reward. Some of them mentioned this at the heart of the constitutional document, including that which has been left to a law approved by the legislator. Some States have resorted to a certain kind of strictness in that law at different stages from other laws. The law on a certain time always comes after a period of time, often after the end of the parliamentary session in which the law was passed.
As for the Iraqi legislator, it did not specify in the constitution of 2005 the privileges of the Council, but referred it to the law. Article (63/I) of this constitution stipulates that "The rights and privileges of the Speaker of the House of Representatives and his deputies and members of the Council shall be determined by law", when the above article is compatible with the legislation that gives the equivalent in other countries, we find that the Iraqi constitution is in line with the constitutions of modern states and referred the definition of the privileges of the Council to the law that the Council itself legislates.