The case for appeals against the elections has ended, pending a decisive decision

[size=52]The case for appeals against the elections has ended, pending a decisive decision[/size]

[size=45]Baghdad/ Firas Adnan[/size]
[size=45]The Federal Supreme Court postponed the final say in the appeals on the elections to next Sunday, confirming that the final decision will be issued on this date, and announced the conclusion of the pleading and the closure of the hearing for the parties.
The (Al-Mada) correspondent stated that "the Federal Supreme Court held a third session to consider an appeal filed by the leader of the Al-Fateh Alliance Hadi Al-Amiri against the elections and listened to his testimony and the statements of the rest of the parties."[/size]
[size=45]He continued, "The court then decided to conclude the pleading and close the door for hearing requests and pleas, while it set the 26th of this month as the date for issuing the decision."[/size]
[size=45]The reporter pointed out that "Al-Amiri stated in his statements that the elections were not fair, and that 5 million voters were deprived of voting, and demanded that the results be calculated through the C900 instead of the C100."[/size]
[size=45]The Coordinating Framework's lawyer, Muhammad Al-Saadi, said in a statement to (Al-Mada), that "the Federal Supreme Court has reviewed all the details of the case and the contradictions that accompanied the elections from its inception until the counting of votes and then the announcement of the results."[/size]
[size=45]Al-Saadi added, "A report that we submitted was not presented at the session by the evaluation committee, which proved that there were violations, and that it was documented by the examining company."[/size]
[size=45]He pointed out, "All of what we have presented supports our view that there were violations that were clear to the commission before the elections were held, and they were not properly addressed."[/size]
[size=45]Al-Saadi explained, "These measures were the cause of the discrepancy that occurred in the work of the commission. At times, we see that it resorts to making a decision to win a candidate and then returns to consider him a loser, and then other changes occurred through the decisions of the electoral judiciary."[/size]
[size=45]And he stated, "The final decision is left to the court, which will issue a decisive decision next Sunday," and he considered "the Commission's responses to our requests as unsatisfactory, and as we found it evading answering our inquiries and the court's questions to it."[/size]
[size=45]Al-Saadi concluded, "We submitted a request to enter the House of Representatives as a third party in the case, and to present the file to specialized experts, but the court did not respond to this request." For his part, the legal expert, Tariq Harb, said in a statement to (Al-Mada), that "what we can say is the matter in which the two referendums have been decided, as it is the most prominent title of what happened in yesterday's session."[/size]
[size=45]Harb continued, "The case has come to an end, the investigation is closed, and there is nothing left to say before the court, which announced yesterday that it had completed all the procedures."[/size]
[size=45]He noted, "The session witnessed a repetition of what the litigants had previously said, and thus the court has reached a conviction that the investigations have ended, and with that, the final decision in the dispute should be issued."[/size]
[size=45]Harb ruled out that “the decision would be in favor of the plaintiff,” and spoke of “the impossibility of returning to the elections again or conducting a comprehensive counting and sorting, and the evidence for this is that the plaintiff limited his complaint to yesterday’s session by recounting some districts, but not all.” He stated, “The data indicates that the court will reject all appeals in a final and irreversible decision according to the constitution,” and finds that “the parties have reached a complete conviction that the results have not changed, and the evidence for this is the existence of political movement between the blocs, whether Shiite, Sunni or Kurdish.” . Harb explained, "The coordinating framework, even if it had hopes that it would obtain something from this lawsuit, would have talked in general about the possibility that it would obtain some seats."[/size]
[size=45]He believes, "Responding the appeals will be tantamount to ratifying the election results, after which the constitutional dates for holding the first parliamentary session will begin, which will witness the chanting of the oath and the election of the president and the first and second deputies."[/size]
[size=45]Harb added, "The situation is proceeding in the correct legal manner, and the court's decision will be binding, and all parties will comply with it."[/size]
[size=45]A member of the Wisdom Movement, Omar al-Samarrai, promised that "the ball is in the court of the Federal Supreme Court, from which we await the final say next Sunday, and we look forward to doing justice to the audience of the coordination framework."[/size]
[size=45]Al-Samarrai stated, to (Al-Mada), that "the framework will abide by the judicial decision, whatever it is, whether it is issued in his favour or the appeals are dismissed, because we are confident that the Iraqi judiciary is impartial and issues its rulings in accordance with the law."[/size]
[size=45]He pointed out, "The only way to end the controversy and questioning the elections is to move towards re-counting and manual counting. As for maintaining the current situation, doubt will continue."[/size]
[size=45]Al-Samarrai went on to say that “objections in any way should remain in accordance with the constitutional and legal means, and to stay away from the language of media escalation or threats to civil peace.” It is noteworthy that the coordinating framework had declared a strong objection to the election results and not recognizing them, and threatened to resort to various means to prevent their adoption, including the complaint to the Federal Supreme Court, and he talked about having evidence that he described as irrefutable, which he said supported his claims of fraud and manipulation.[/size]
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