Draft Constitution for New
IRAQ

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Section V Political Rights

Article 38 Electoral Rights

  1. All resident adults have the equal right to vote and to be elected. In national elections, only citizens have this right.
  2. There is no compulsory voting.
  3. Anyone who has attained the age of eighteen years is an adult.

Article 39 Right to Petition

Everyone has the right to address written petitions to the competent agencies, to governments, and to parliament.

Article 40 Freedom of Citizenship

  1. Citizens can at any time give up their citizenship.
  2. Citizens may at no time be forced to give up their citizenship.

Article 41 Right to Self-Determination and Resistance

  1. Everyone has the right to collective self-determination including the right to decide about membership in regional or local entities. The Republic of Iraq guarantees these rights through adequate powers of decentralized regional and local governments.
  2. All citizens have the right to civil disobedience and resistance against attempts to abolish this constitutional order, should no other remedy be available.

Article 42 Right to Found Political Parties

  1. Everyone has the right to found political parties respecting the principles of secularity, sovereignty, and democracy.
  2. Everyone is free to carry on political activities in or with such parties.

 

Published 02/17/1999
Copyright © 1998 dijlafurat, All rights reserved.
Revised: 10/ 06/ 1999.