Political editor
After the efforts exerted have paid off and the issue percentages and the displaced quota participation in the coming parliamentary elections to be held on the 7th of next March are settled, and after heated discussions and numerous objections on the part of some partners in the political process on the subject of the displaced people inside and outside the country and their participation in the coming parliamentary elections, voting was carried out on a decision that might look fair on the part of parliament members to appease the concerned parties that challenged the issued decisions in the storm that took place at first, but the matter is yet pending, whereas an issue remained pending to now more important than the one previously raised, which is the number of refugees who are entitled to take part in the elections, wherein the declared lists finally showed a great variation between the actual number present abroad and that officially registered in the Ministry of Immigration and the Displaced, in which light large numbers of them will be dismissed and deprived from participation in the parliamentary elections especially those present in the neighboring countries which amounted to millions thereof according to recent statistics, on the grounds that they are not registered in the lists present with the Refugee Commissariat affiliated to the Department of Immigration, and thus are regarded as departing by their own volition rather than refugees as a governmental source has been quoted by until security situation is becoming better in Iraq; however, the issue was not confined to those present outside of Iraq only but included the displaced within the country whose security and living conditions forced them to leave their home areas and turned to safer areas, especially in the north of Iraq, and whose rights were lost also between the Immigration and the Displaced and between the Higher Independent Commissariat for Elections, on the pretext that they were not registered on the displaced list as well, and consequently will lead to their loss of rights, and many be deprived from participation in the next elections, since even the international humanitarian organizations active in the field human rights could not provide for their supplies, fulfill their obligations towards them, and be just with this large segment of Iraqi society…