Gerakan Party trains Iraqi MPs in Malaysia

10 members of the Constitutional Review Committee in the Iraqi Parliament were given the chance to study in-depth the Malaysian federal system and its model of national unity. The programme consisted of meetings with high-ranking government officials, including the Rt. Hon. Prime Minister, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Speaker of the Senate, and the Chief Justice of Malaysia. It also included extensive academic deliberations on federalism and national unity and their application within the Iraqi context.

Against the background of the Malaysian experience this programme allowed the Iraqi decision-makers to study the praxis of a constitutional system in a multiethnic and predominantly Muslim country that could be of benefit for the parliamentarians in their political and constitutional debates in Iraq. As Islam is the religion of the Malaysian federation and comes under the authority of the federal states, the Iraqis also had the chance to discuss relations between the state and Islam in Malaysia.

This study tour to Malaysia was organised by Party Gerakan and the Friedrich Naumann Foundation in close collaboration with the Office for Constitutional Support in the United Nations Assistance Mission to Iraq (UNAMI/OCS) and it was financially supported by the United Nations. The event took place from February, 11 – 20.

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