The constitutional principles that govern the parliamentary electoral system in the Constitution of the Republic of Iraq for year 2005

Doi:https://doi.org/10.37940/JRLS.2023.4.1.10

Abstract

     There is no doubt that the constitutional texts related to organizing the political rights of the Iraqi people and regulating their participation in the elections, and establishing the most appropriate electoral system whose formulation must be dominated by the prevailing aspirations, desires and hopes of Iraqi society, are among the most important priorities that the constitutional legislator wanted to include in the texts of the 2005 constitution. Inspired by all the visions, aspirations, and hopes that are a reflection of the considered supreme political interests that dominate and prevail in society when writing the constitution, to be supreme rules that prevail in the legal organization of the parliamentary electoral system in Iraq, the legislator adheres to them when legislating election laws and other laws related to elections, and the administration adheres to them Electoral, where the constitution works to establish the basic principles of the method of organizing institutions in the state and the formation of the government, and the basic rights that must be implemented, and the Iraqi constitutional legislator has embodied a number of basic principles that govern the electoral system in the heart of the constitutional document such as the principles of universal suffrage, equality, confidentiality and periodic elections, There is no doubt that these principles are a reflection of the desires and hopes prevailing in society when of writing the constitution, in the period after 2003.