Beyond the bullets, a new constitution is the crucial issue for this
democracy
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1402235,00.html
The issue for all moderates is whether religious or secular values will
be enshrined
Jonathan Steele in Basra
Monday January 31, 2005
The Guardian
Whoever wins yesterday's election, the crucial issue for Iraq over the
coming months - apart from the future of the insurgency and whether
foreign troops give a timetable for leaving - will be the process of
writing Iraq's first democratic constitution.
The 275 members chosen yesterday for the national assembly will be in
charge of the process. Will the new constitution enshrine Sharia law?
Will it protect women's property and divorce rights? Will it maintain
the system of federalism that was written into Iraq's temporary
constitution by the Americans a year ago? If it does not, will this
provoke the Kurds in northern Iraq to break away?
Jonathan Steele
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