Changing Province into region needs special law, legal expert

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: Legal expert Tariq Harb said that there is a legal obstacle before announcing Salahuddin province into a region, because the law stipulated that the province can join a region, but not changing into a region, which necessitates issuing a new law by the parliament. Harb told IraqiNews.com that the law talks of a referendum in every province that wants to join a region, but nothing mentioned on the referendum of turning the province into region. Twenty provincial members of Salahuddin, comprising of 28, voted for announcing the province an independent region within a unified Iraq , in protest to Baghdad negligence of the people of the province and its economic resources, as well as the recent arrest campaign against Baathist members and ex-military officers. 91