Presidency Council of Iraq

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The presidency council of Iraq was an entity that operated under the auspices of the "transitional provisions" of the Constitution of Iraq and previously under the Transitional Administrative Law.

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The presidency council functioned in the role of the president of Iraq until one successive presidential term after the ratification of the Constitution [1] and a government was seated. [2] The presidency council consisted of one president and two deputies, or vice presidents, and the presidency council must have made all decisions unanimously. [3]

The members of the presidency council were elected with "one list" by a two-thirds majority in the Iraqi Council of Representatives. [4] The presidency council had the right to veto legislation passed by the Council of Representatives which may have overrode the veto with a three-fifths supermajority. [5] Under the TAL the override required a two-thirds supermajority.

History

The first presidency council was elected by the National Assembly on 6 April 2005, after more than two months of negotiations between the United Iraqi Alliance and Democratic Patriotic Alliance of Kurdistan political factions. [6] Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani became the president, with Shi'ite UIA and SCIRI member Adil Abdul al-Mahdi and outgoing Sunni interim president Ghazi al-Yawar as his deputies.

The second presidency council, the first under the new Constitution of Iraq, consisted of President Jalal Talabani, and Vice Presidents Adil Abdul al-Mahdi and Tariq al-Hashimi.

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