Parliament’s editorial reveals that al-Sadr held 62% of the seats

[size=52]Parliament’s editorial reveals that al-Sadr held 62% of the seats[/size]

[size=45]Baghdad / Tamim Al-Hassan[/size]
[size=45]In the same way that Muhammad al-Halbousi - the first speaker of parliament to be re-confidence after 2003 - passed the selection of the prime minister in Parliament - according to political parties - through a bloc that includes about 62% of the seats, while the five names that have been leaked to fill the position are still unchanged.[/size]
[size=45]Until the last hours before the opening of the first parliament session after the early elections, Al-Maliki, the former prime minister, remained clinging to his requirements until the Shiite forces in the coordinating framework missed the opportunity to vote on their candidates for the Presidency of the Parliament.[/size]
[size=45]The "Coordination" had disagreed before the session in presenting a candidate for the first deputy speaker of parliament, before withdrawing after that in solidarity with Mahmoud al-Mashhadani, the head of the age, who claimed that he was beaten by the new parliamentarians.[/size]
[size=45]Al-Mashhadani’s team, on the other hand, missed the vote for the latter, who confirmed by “phone” - after leaving the session - that he was running for the position of Speaker of Parliament, while the Kurdish forces seem to have absorbed the crisis and decided to pass the name of the President of the Republic “quietly” after two weeks.[/size]
[size=45]The parliament held last Sunday, the first session of the fifth session, more than two months after the elections that took place last October, while the session witnessed an “exceptional” entry into the parliament building by some political forces in controversial clothes.[/size]
[size=45]After verbal altercations between the deputies who had just taken the constitutional oath, the coordinating framework and other forces withdrew from the hall after al-Mashhadani left, carried on the shoulders of the parliament’s guards, and then rejected the outcomes of the session, which ended quickly after choosing the Presidency of Parliament and opening the door for the nomination of the President of the Republic.[/size]
[size=45]Al-Mashhadani from the presidential chair to the hospital[/size]
[size=45]Political sources and new parliamentarians who were present at the session confirmed that Mahmoud al-Mashhadani, 73 years old, who is the head of the age chosen by the commission to run the opening session, "was not subjected to an attack as he claimed."[/size]
[size=45]One of the parliamentarians, who asked not to be named, confirmed to Al-Mada: "What happened is that Al-Mashhadani fell ill after high blood sugar, and it seemed that he deliberately caused a disturbance in the session to sabotage it."[/size]
[size=45]Soon, social media circulated an old video of al-Mashhadani, in which he recounts an incident that took place in 2008, when the latter was Speaker of Parliament.[/size]
[size=45]Article 46 in the bylaw of the parliament legislated in 2016, gives the parliament speaker the right to “adjourn the session” or “postponed” if the system is disrupted in the parliament and the president is unable to “return it.”[/size]
[size=45]It seems that al-Mashhadani had relied on this article in Sunday’s session, and insisted in later statements, after announcing that he had been beaten by new MPs, that he was “still the chief of age” and that he “closed the session and no one else has the right to repeat it.”[/size]
[size=45]Who is the largest block?[/size]
[size=45]The deputy, who was present in the details of what happened in the opening session, indicated that "Al-Mashhadani tried to skip the law and present the paper of the largest bloc presented by the coordination framework, which is a forged paper."[/size]
[size=45]The representative added: "Some of the names that were in the paper are repeated, so that the same person's name was used twice, once with his father's name and once with a family name to mislead the council that they are two different names."[/size]
[size=45]The Coordinator had submitted to al-Mashhadani a paper with scattered lines and signatures, in which he claimed that he had the largest bloc with “88” seats, including the names of independent candidates and others whose names were not mentioned in the paper that was leaked to the media.[/size]
[size=45]Al-Mashhadani claimed, in statements after leaving Ibn Sina Hospital, which is located inside the Green Zone, to receive treatment, that he "passed the largest mass before he was injured and adjourned the session."[/size]
[size=45]The parliament’s internal system does not indicate that the president’s powers are to announce the largest bloc, and the latter’s powers came according to the rules of procedure in Article 5, which confirms that “his task is limited to managing the first session and holding elections for the speaker and his two deputies.”[/size]
[size=45]Those close to the Sadrist movement confirmed to (Al-Mada) that: “The coordination framework, because of Nuri al-Maliki, remained adhering to its requirements that the leader of the Sadrist movement rejected,” which led to them missing the opportunity to ally with al-Sadr.[/size]
[size=45]According to the sources, al-Maliki had requested 6 ministries for his coalition, two of which are sovereign, in addition to the position of Deputy Speaker of Parliament and the position of Vice President of the Republic occupied by al-Maliki himself.[/size]
[size=45]The coordinating framework had conflicting statements prior to the session, which was postponed 4 hours from its scheduled date at 11 am, regarding the presentation of Ahmed al-Asadi, a former leader in the Popular Mobilization, as deputy speaker of Parliament.[/size]
[size=45]Those close to the leader of the movement indicate that the latter has "resolved the issue of the largest bloc now, after the election of al-Halbousi with 200 votes, and the same thing will be repeated in choosing the prime minister who will be nominated by the leader of the movement."[/size]
[size=45]Sadr's first victory[/size]
[size=45]The parliament elected Muhammad al-Halbousi for the second time to head parliament with 200 votes out of 329 seats, then his deputy, al-Sadr, Hakim al-Zamili, and the second deputy, Shakhwan Abdullah, a member of the Democratic Party and the winner of the party in Kirkuk.[/size]
[size=45]Thus, al-Sadr, who tweeted after the session was adjourned around midnight on Sunday, was able to achieve the first victory of the "political majority" that he had called for since obtaining the most seats with 73 seats.[/size]
[size=45]Al-Sadr said in his tweet on “Twitter” that: “The choice of this parliament speaker and his two deputies is the first indication of the government of the national majority (...) for an honest national government to emerge from it.”[/size]
[size=45]And still, the names of the candidates for the position of the next prime minister, which Al-Mada revealed a few days ago, have not changed, as it included the current Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi, the Iraqi ambassador in London and Sadr’s cousin, Jaafar Al-Sadr, and Adel Mahouder, a Sadrist and former Minister of Municipalities.[/size]
[size=45]As for the other two names, which were not disclosed, the sources speculate that they are from the very close circle of the leader of the Sadrist movement, or what they are known as the “Hanana Team,” which is Sadr’s residence in Najaf.[/size]
[size=45]The Kurds learned their lesson[/size]
[size=45]On the other hand, changes appear to occur in the negotiations of the Kurdish forces to nominate the President of the Republic, where Al-Halbousi announced, after receiving the presidency of Parliament again, that he opened the door for candidacy for the presidency of Iraq within 15 days.[/size]
[size=45]Imad Baglan, a member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (31 seats), said that "the selection of a candidate for the presidency from any Kurdish party will be with the approval of all Kurdish forces and the approval of the party's leader, Massoud Barzani."[/size]
[size=45]The move to nominate Shakhwan Abdullah, a member of the Democratic Party, to the position of second deputy speaker of parliament was explained by the fact that the Democratic Party had ceded the nomination of the President of the Republic to his rival, the National Union Party, which won 17 seats.[/size]
[size=45]Yesterday, the official agency quoted a deputy in the Kurdistan Democratic Party, deciding the position of the President of the Republic in favor of the National Union, and presenting candidates for the position.[/size]
[size=45]The party's deputy, Mahdi Karim, said, according to the official agency, that "the Democratic and Patriotic Union of Kurdistan parties agreed to nominate two personalities for the post of President of the Republic," noting that "the candidates were presented by the Patriotic Union."[/size]
[size=45]But Baglan did not confirm that statement, and stressed that "the nomination of the President of the Republic is still early, and we have 15 days."[/size]
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