Obstacles to The Performance of The Iraqi Parliament After 2003

Abstract

The parliamentary system is one of the forms of pluralistic democratic regimes. The system originated in England and has witnessed many developments that have ended in the form that it has now established. This system overlaps the legislative and executive branches with an unspecified separation between the three authorities And the government is formed from the coalition or the party that holds the parliamentary majority. This party presents its government and its program and seeks the confidence of the majority of the members of parliament as a condition for exercising its functions and thus the government is accountable to parliament.
The parliamentary system is characterized by two branches of the executive branch, where there is a head of state who may be president or king according to the type of political system, whose functions are honorable, and there is beside him the government (the ministry) which is the axis of this system because it is the actual authorities, Between the authorities on the basis of cooperation and balance between them with the existence of mutual control over the performance of the government program provided by the majority party. As for the system of governance in Iraq under its permanent constitution for the year 2005, it is clear from the first article that Iraq takes the parliamentary system and the legislative authority consists of two chambers, the Council of Representatives and the Council of the Union, has faced the application of this system in Iraq, some of the obstacles that have had a negative impact on The performance of his constitutional duties and thus improve the Iraqi reality, which has become suffering from a lot of political, economic and social crises       
That his view of the nature of the political process in Iraq, we find that this process has been marred by many mistakes that have not been seriously working to address the imbalance and reform, both at the level of official institutions that gnaw corruption, the bulk of it or at the level of individuals and leading to direct behaviors and actions from The change from the decision-making summit to the rule, and the actual practice overlapping with the motivations of transition and transition from one condition to the next. The structural factors contribute to achieving conditions conducive to reform, which requires linking the aspirations to the actions through effective reform movements. (8) months after the formation of the government of the 2018 elections, the lives of Iraqis are still full of failures, challenges and crises accumulated since (16) years, the age of The democratic transition in Iraq, which requires solutions to be found over the near future by the government of the new Iraqi Prime Minister (Adel Abdul Mahdi) and the support and support of political parties and blocs because the Iraqi street is no longer able to bear further deterioration in various aspects of his life.