Parliamentary Committees and their Role in Proposing and Legislating Regular Laws in Iraq

Abstract

Parliament or the Representative Council is the only authority in the political system that combines two main tasks, which are proxy for the people who brought it to power, and at the same time a legislative body that legislates regular laws, and perhaps the meeting of these two functions in Parliament is the source of its unique importance among the institutions of the democratic system, with Not to lose sight of his sensitive role in monitoring government actions.

      Parliament has moved from a stage in which it was merely an advisory body, to becoming an effective legislative and oversight authority in many democratic parliamentary political systems from which the government emerges and participates with it in adopting a public policy. Due to the development of political life and its intertwining, it became imperative for parliaments to find mechanisms and means to improve and develop their work, and to carry out their representative, legislative and oversight duty in the best way, as parliamentary committees are the most important means used in the division of parliament's work, as parliamentary committees gain great importance in parliamentary work, and there is hardly a system A parliamentary democrat or any other person who does not depend in his performance on the work of parliamentary committees, as it gives the character of specialization, interaction and harmony among its members.

      Parliamentary committees carry out tasks that are difficult for members of the Council as a whole to perform, such as the legal drafting of draft laws or proposals of laws, studying and consulting about them with the executive authority, and exercising oversight functions over the performance of the institutions of the executive authority on a daily and practical basis. The committees perform their role each according to their competence, which makes it easier for Parliament. Performing his duties in a way in legislating and amending laws, or monitoring the work of other authorities.