نظام المشاركة االستفتائية في ضوء التشريعات العراقية والكوردستانية دراسة تحليلية

Abstract

In addition to the right of participation in the elections, political and social conditions led to the emergence of another system called the referendum system, because direct democracy, which originally means people govern themselves, seems to be a theory that is currently impossible to implement. A process that forced political and legal jurists to think of practical ways that allow the people to practice in the legislation process themselves, or to participate in it without mediation, and, as a consequence have come up with the creation of the two methods (referendum) and (popular ratification), which combine the idea of quasi-direct democracy and the possibility of putting it into practice. After a long struggle for democracy and the exercise of political rights, the referendum was created as a compromise between indirect democracy and direct democracy, whereby the people participate in the enactment of the constitutional and legal laws that govern the country, or giving opinion of a opinion express and when elected as head of state politician of the planned  policy adopted by the politician.