Characteristics of the peaceful transfer of power in the Iraqi legal system compared to democratic constitutions

Abstract

The issue of democracy has always been one of the issues that has preoccupied societies for many decades, and many jurists and commentators have appeared who have worked hard with their opinions on that issue. Democracy has often been linked to power, according to many of them, since 1925, when its first basic law lasted until 2003, and then the transitional period due to regime change, but with strong powers. External, although the people wanted the process of change, but within the boundaries of society and not by external will, including economic and social, including how to accept democracy after a bitter reality that afflicted Iraq. Iraqi society is also a diverse society, and the transition to power cannot take place peacefully, as the societal, political and cultural characteristics differ in Iraq is different from the countries in which democracy has been established, which caused the diversity of the Iraqi spectrum, a problem that was not created by Iraqi society itself, but was created by the policies alien to this country for multiple reasons, perhaps the most important of which is the exclusion of the main components in Iraq for a decade due to the dictatorial policies of the political systems in Iraq, perhaps the party system. For the Baath Party, which excluded these components, questioning their patriotism, preferring a group close to it and preventing those from?