The role of the internal and external committees in monitoring the elections in Iraq after 2003

In this article, we examine the role of domestic and foreign committees overseeing Iraq’s post-2003 elections and explain their importance. This study reveals the importance of the role of these committees, recognizing the electoral system and the process of reforming and revising it as the cornerstone of the reform structure of the Iraqi democratic system. Therefore, in this opportunity, we have tried to evaluate the Iraqi electoral system scientifically and accurately in order to understand the importance of this study and how to prepare it. This study analyzes the effect of legislating the electoral system in Iraq, recognizing its political and legal dimensions, and examines the controversial issues that have arisen with this law. It also examines the extent to which the electoral system should be transparent and free, free from crises and problems. The present study starts from the study of categories and concepts of system analysis and at the beginning, using the analytical method, examines the motives and reasons that determine the need for this study in the Iraqi electoral system and then, the researcher in the framework of the study. Some of the legal texts that organize the election process in Iraq; Has used the legal method.

Votes cast in favor of candidates in order to determine the winner among them; It relies on technical methods, which are often complex and vary according to the diversity of each state’s electoral system from one state to another, depending on the political, historical, economic, social, and cultural context in which that nation plays a role in its parliaments.. A clear electoral system sometimes causes parliament to be flawed and to be dominated by the government. This happens when the dominant party takes power, just as it is possible for another electoral system to guarantee the role of political institutions in the House of Representatives in proportion to its actual size in society; Sometimes a specific electoral system will allow large coalitions to seize more seats than the actual size of parliament within the community. It is also possible for an electoral system to encourage agreement between different parties; Or that another electoral system has spread hatred among these parties; Either the agreement has led to the establishment of an active and stable government in society, or it has led to the formation of an inefficient and unstable government.

Laws set for the Iraqi election process at this stage; From the perspective of the electoral system that will determine the conditions of candidacy, as well as from the perspective of quantitative and qualitative changes that are very important in relation to the electoral process; Will undergo a radical change. It should be noted that the Constitution has established general rules and principles for the organization of elections in order to play an important role in the crystallization of the legal system of elections; Establish the electoral process in the society, and this in turn will lead to the consolidation of the legal basis that has been prepared for the legal framework of the process of electing the members of the Iraqi parliament.