Attempting New Rules of Democracy: Practicing Equivalent Components Representatives in a Council of Representatives

Abstract

The modern Council of Representatives (CoR.) has developed and become a major political organization, which practice politic, beside to other originally legally performs functions such as act legislations, and oversight of government works. One of the most important aspects of  this body is the group of individuals known as representatives, who join the Council through elections to perform democratic, which is historical mean "Rule the state by the People; especially: rule of the majority” during all these decades that was the principle. until is change by attempted a new rules of democracy. Contemporary Iraq have and follows one of a modern constitution in the world. This constitution was written by Iraqi political leaders with the help and support from the United Nations, as well as many other organizations, to implement a new rules of democratic by reflecting variety of Iraqi components. Nonetheless, new rules accompanied by many others elements originated a controversial experiment and facing many obstacles. Furthermore, lack of effectiveness and transparency of the Iraqi election system has affected on the functions of the Iraqi CoR. regarding to government accountability,  that was a main reason for the failure to investigate in many government scandals and corruption incidents. Two important aspects related to the Iraqi CoR. are discussed in this article. First, this article reviews the Iraqi components and distributed seats in the Iraqi CoR. Second, this article describes the new legal concept of Democracy according to Iraq experiment. The aim of this article is to identify the requirements for providing a legal election system that work to represent all Iraqi components and establishes a foundation of a new rule of democracy that corresponds to the rule of all citizens, not only the rule of majority. Moreover, this article determines the current obstacles that hinder the work of the Independent High Electoral Commission, as well as the factors that empower the rule of law and wise governance. The main problem examined in this article is the inability of the Iraqi election system to apply the Iraqi constitution and to elect appropriate candidates to represent Iraqi components. This article contributes to reinforce the election rules for the benefit and interest of the Iraqi people.