Experts: The formation of the government will not be as smooth as the parliament speaker was elected

[size=52]Experts: The formation of the government will not be as smooth as the parliament speaker was elected[/size]

[size=45]Translation/ Hamid Ahmed[/size]
[size=45]Experts and analysts say, in a report published on The National news website, that Iraq may face a long and difficult process in forming a government, despite the smooth and flexible re-election of Parliament Speaker Muhammad al-Halbousi for a second term. Noting that competing political blocs claimed during the first parliament session since the October 10 elections that they had the numerical majority.[/size]
[size=45]During the first parliament session on Sunday, which witnessed a clamor and a scramble among members of parliament, and the elderly speaker, Mahmoud al-Mashhadani, was exposed during the process of verifying the votes of parliament members to a health problem, as a result of which he was taken to the hospital. By collecting 200 votes out of a total of 228 deputies.[/size]
[size=45]Renad Mansour, director of the Iraq Initiative at the Gatham House Center for Studies in London, said, "The vote that took place in Sunday's session does not necessarily indicate so far any smooth path to move forward with the formation of a coherent government."[/size]
[size=45]"It is very likely that there will be a dead end, and it will not be clear who will be the prime minister," he told The National. Likewise, the process of electing a president and prime minister will not be as smooth and easy as the process of re-electing al-Halbousi.”[/size]
[size=45]The Iraqi constitution, which was adopted in 2005, had outlined the features of the political system in the formation of the Iraqi government after the stage of the American invasion of Iraq, which was built on the basis of sectarianism and quotas among the components of the people. The position of the presidency, which is considered a largely ceremonial position, is held by the Kurds.[/size]
[size=45]Other high-ranking positions in the government are divided on the basis of the sectarian and ethnic backgrounds of the ruling political parties.[/size]
[size=45]The researcher, Mansour, said that the political blocs competing with al-Sadr, known as the coordination framework, abstained in the session from voting for al-Halbousi “because they considered this matter as part of Muqtada al-Sadr's move to form a majority government. Therefore, the debate is now about who will be the largest bloc.[/size]
[size=45]The Iraqi constitution says that the largest bloc achieved in the House of Representatives is responsible for forming the government and its cabinet, in which influential parties dominate the main and sovereign positions.[/size]
[size=45]On the other hand, the Shiite parties and blocs affiliated with the coordination framework pledged to approach the Supreme Court to object to the legitimacy of the selection of positions that took place in the session.[/size]
[size=45]Member of the Al-Fateh Alliance, Hammam Al-Tamimi, said, "What happened inside the parliament is illegal and will have serious consequences at the state level."[/size]
[size=45]Parliament now has 30 days from the date of the first session to elect a new president of the country, who in turn will ask the largest bloc to form a government within 15 days.[/size]
[size=45]The session witnessed sharp arguments and raising votes among members of Parliament about which bloc has the largest number of seats.[/size]
[size=45]"Al-Halbousi's victory highlights that the Sadrist movement represents the largest bloc in Parliament, especially since it received a large number of blessings from the bloc," said researcher Mansour. However, within Iraq's political norms, no one understands and knows who the largest bloc is.[/size]
[size=45]In previous elections, competing blocs collide with each other by changing alliances and forming blocs if the results are ratified, which leads to confusion in how to classify and define the largest bloc. And that most of the blocs resort to making deals and concessions among themselves behind closed rooms instead of adhering to the constitutional methods.[/size]
[size=45]For its part, says political analyst, Laheeb Hegel, from the International Crisis Group, which is based in Belgium, that this same political bloc may not withstand the appointment of the president or the prime minister.[/size]
[size=45]"The victory rhetoric that al-Sadr has repeated has not subsided since the results of the October 10 elections were announced," she said. And that his rivals had sought to strip the elections of their legitimacy, and are seeking today to form their largest bloc, with their objection and rejection of the process during which the management of the first inaugural parliament session took place.[/size]
[size=45]"The opposition side will not only try to strip the government of its legitimacy through legal or political means, but will resort to provoking violence as well," Hegel added.[/size]
[size=45]Analyst Hegel expects that Iraq may witness, through this stage it is going through, another wave of violence between Shiite parties and blocs in which armed groups have a role.[/size]
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