of the issuance of instructions and decisions from the Prime Minister to provide compensating job vacancies to the members of minorities who left the service either by resigning or emigrating outside the country or the threat and to recruit some of them in the Unified National Card system and to assign the members of minorities in the police and security services; but the Commission observed the lack of the word (minority) in the text of the above article, the unequal access to these rights among the minorities, as the minorities, including Turkmen are disproportionately represented by their percentage and population in the areas where they live in. Recommendations: 1. Take all measures to ensure the representation of ethnic and religious groups in the security and police services, including in positions of leadership and authority. 2. Taking into account the representation of minorities in the security and police services commensurate with the population in their areas. Minority Representation in Politics (Articles 2 & 5): The Commission noted that the representation of minorities is low which is reflected in Article (11\ paragraph 2) of the new law, which stipulates that their representation in the national lists (quota) is calculated on the allocated seats with no affect their proportion in the event they participate in the national lists. The quota is distributed to (5) seats for the Christian components and (1) seat for each component (Yazidi, Sabean, Shabak) according to their presence in the provinces where their seats after the amendment became as follows: • (4) seats for Christians, Sabean Mandaeans and Faili Kurds in Baghdad. A seat for Turkmens was canceled. The allocation of the following seats for the components shown next to them within the seats of the provincial councils: • (3) seats for each of the Christians, Yazidis and Shabak in Nineveh. • (1) seat for Christians in Basra. • (1) seat for the Faili Kurds in Wasit. The allocation of the following seats for the components shown next to them within the seats of the district councils: • (1) seat for Sabean Mandaean in each governorate (Baghdad, Basra, Maysan). • (1) seat for Yazidis and Shabak in Mosul. • (1) seat for Christians in (Baghdad\ Karkh, Baghdad\ Rusafa, Basra, Mosul, Maysan). The Commission indicated that the government representation of religious-ethnic minorities is by one member of the local government in the province of Basra, while there is no representation of minorities from other ethnic groups of the Faili Kurds, although the number of this group up to more than (10000) persons and the number of the Blacks up to (20,000) people. 15