Iraqi Christians Seek Seat Quota in Next Legislature
ICC Note
Iraqi Christians are demanding fair representation at the country’s legislature.
10/22/2009 Iraq (Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty)- Representatives of Iraq’s Christian community are demanding that legislative-seat quotas for Christians and other minority communities should be established in the new election law, RFE/RL’s Radio Free Iraq (RFI) reports.
Hikmat al-Hakim, a spokesman for the Higher Committee of Roman Catholic Chaldean Organizations in Iraq , told RFI that if the five-seat proposal is rejected, “the Christian community will initiate talks with the major blocs on the possibility of joining them in return for higher representation.”
