- Walliam Warda in his speech with Al-Hurra Iraq Tv. channel: Iraqi minorities representation in the parliament require reconsideration in favor of their rights
- The representation of Iraqi Yazidis does not match the number of half a million citizen
- Iraqi Armenians are not represented in parliament yet and the presence of Christian deputies does not meet their rights being a national component
- Warda calls for fair representation of minorities in the independent commissions and other Iraqi institutions and in making sovereign decisions
Mr. William Warda, Public Relations Officer at Hammurabi Human Rights Organization HHRO, called for reconsideration of the parliamentary seats allocated to Iraqi minorities.
In his speech with Al-Hurra Iraq Tv. Channel in the news bulletin on Wednesday 7/2/2018 at 8:00 pm Mr. Warda said that allocated seats for minorities in the parliament do not cover the rights of these components, pointing out to the representation of Iraqi Christians within the quota is five deputy while the situation needs more than that, if we consider the facts of reality that some of deputies are among the major political components and implement the policies and directions of those components according to the approach of containment.
Mr. Warda addressed the issue of Yazidi component representation in the House of Representatives, stressing that their current representation does not match the size of their population of half a million Iraqi Yazidi.
Mr. Warda referred to the issue of the Armenian Iraqi component stressing to the injustice representation in the parliament indicating to the absence of an Armenian deputy, although Armenians are a well-known national component, and if some may believe that Christian deputies in the parliament are representing them as Christians, this is considered to be unrealistic.
Mr. Warda also pointed out to the insufficient interest of the parliamentary representation of minorities with the absence of persistent and continuous approach for real representation in independent commissions, we have to ask how many ministers, head of institution and general director of minorities are serving in Iraqi state and their involvement in sovereign actions and decisions.
Concluding his speech, Mr. Warda said that dealing with minorities according to the existing participatory formula is in really need of revision and that key of necessary proceedings of reform in the Iraqi institutions must be taken into consideration.
