المركز الدستوري لمجلس الاتحاد : دراسة في ظل دستور العراق لعام 2005

Abstract EN

The Constitution of Iraq adopted in 2005 the system of dual legislative power and provided for the composition of the House of Representatives and the Council of the Union, approved the formation of the second Council to be part of the legislative authority in addition to the House of Representatives to represent the region and provinces not organized in the region.The Constitution adopted the detailed organization of the rules relating to the composition of the Council of Representatives and its competences, while citing brief texts containing a general reference to the Council of the Union, and silent on the organization of rules on its composition and competencies and its relationship with the House of Representatives and other authorities, and then left the Constitution organize this Council by a law enacted by the House of Representatives by a two-thirds majority of its members.Thus, the Constitution makers had distinguished between the instrument established for each of the two chambers, which weakened the constitutional status of the Council of the Union did not have an effective competence based on it in the exercise of its legislative function and as a result the uniqueness of the House of Representatives to exercise all the constitutional parliamentary functions, whether related to legislative or non-legislative competencies as well Of its uniqueness with jurisdiction.