Al-Maliki’s coalition is likely to postpone the election of the Speaker of Parliament and gives two reasons, 27 JAN

Al-Maliki’s coalition is likely to postpone the election of the Speaker of Parliament and gives two reasons

Shafaq News/ The State of Law coalition led by Nouri al-Maliki suggested, on Saturday, the postponement of the election of a new speaker for the Iraqi Council of Representatives.

Today, Saturday, the House of Representatives is scheduled to hold a session dedicated to electing a new president to succeed Muhammad al-Halbousi, who was deported by a judicial decision.

The representative of the coalition, Ali Al-Mashkour, told Shafaq News Agency, “The first item on the agenda of today’s session was supposed to be the election of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, but the opportunities for that were not available.”

He added, “The House of Representatives is awaiting the opinion of the Federal Court on the legality of the first session to elect the Speaker of the Council, and also there is no agreement between the Sunni blocs regarding choosing a specific person for the position.”

Al-Mashkoor suggested that “the election of the Speaker of the House of Representatives will be postponed until a decision is issued by the federal government and the Sunni blocs agree on a specific candidate for the position of president. ”

On the evening of Saturday, January 13, the House of Representatives held an extraordinary session to choose the new Speaker of the House of Representatives, and the first round of voting ended with the victory of the “Taqaddum” Party, Shaalan Al-Karim, with 152 votes out of 314 votes, followed by Representative Salem Al-Issawi with 97 votes, and Representative Mahmoud Al-Mashhadani received 48 votes, Representative Amer Abdul-Jabbar received 6 votes, and Representative Talal Al-Zubaie received one vote. However, verbal altercations occurred inside the Council hall, forcing the Council Presidency to adjourn the session until further notice, and no other session was held until the preparation of this report.

However, the next day, January 14, MPs Yousef Al-Kalabi and Falih Al-Khazali filed a lawsuit with the Federal Court, which included a request to issue a state order to stop the election session until the lawsuit was resolved, due to suspicions of paying bribes to some MPs in order to vote for candidates for the Presidency of the Council.

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