Under a compromise brokered before the referendum, it was agreed that the first parliament elected pursuant to the brand new structure would institute a Constitutional Review Committee with a view to determine whether the constitution must be amended. Any amendments agreed must be ratified by a referendum just like the one which initially permitted it. After this settlement was entered into, the Sunni-majority Iraqi Islamic Party agreed to back a Yes vote in the referendum that happened on October 15, 2005. Iraq’s first constitution, which established a constitutional monarchy, entered into force under the auspices of a British navy occupation in 1925 and remained in impact until the 1958 revolution established a republic.
The Widespread Regulation
The Transitional National Assembly of Iraq, which was elected in January 2005 pursuant to the Coalition Provisional Authority’s Transitional Administrative Law, appointed a Constitutional Committee for the purpose of getting ready a draft structure by 15 August 2005. The Committee was initially made up of 55 members, all of whom have been drawn from the Transitional National Assembly, but its membership was finally expanded beyond the Assembly’s numbers, in order to permit representatives from the Sunni Arab group to take part . The present structure was permitted by a referendum that took place on 15 October 2005. The constitution was drafted in 2005 by members of the Iraqi Constitution Drafting Committee to switch the Law of Administration for the State of Iraq for the Transitional Period (the “TAL”). The TAL was drafted between December … Read More
