Iraq’s Dysfunctional Parliament

Peace and Freedom - Policy and World Ideas ^ | June 12, 2007 | John E. Carey

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Iraq’s Dysfunctional Parliament

International observers view the Iraqi Parliament as “immature” or “dysfunctional.” The man on the street in Baghdad calls the elected body “irrelevant.”

By John E. Carey
Peace and Freedom
June 12, 2007

The Iraqi Council of Representatives, which meets in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, is currently an elected body of 275 seats filled by elected Parliamentarians or Legislators representing the various regions and factions of Iraq.

After Saddam Hussein’s decades-long autocratic rule, this elected body is the first attempt at democracy in the long history of mankind in the Tigris-Euphrates region.

Consequently, there is a steep learning curve and no history or tradition of conduct, decorum or order in the Iraqi Parliament. The United States media outlet National Public Radio has a reporter named Jamie Tarabay in Baghdad. She reports that most observers view the elected body and its members as “immature.”

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She reports that most observers view the elected body and its members as “immature.”

There is a lot of that going around.......