The Triple Alliance is approaching 230 seats and the Coordination: We will disrupt the sessions

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[size=52]The Triple Alliance is approaching 230 seats and the Coordination: We will disrupt the sessions[/size]

[size=45]Baghdad / Tamim Al-Hassan[/size]
[size=45]Once again, it is expected that the expected judicial decision on the fate of the second list of presidential candidates will move the political stalemate that has been going on for several months.[/size]
[size=45]The Federal Court is supposed to meet today, Tuesday, for the second time to consider the challenge to the legality of Parliament opening the door for nomination again for the post of President of the Republic.[/size]
[size=45]Before the decision was issued, the coordinating framework rumored that it had enough numbers to turn it into the “blocking third,” which would stop the “president” election session.[/size]
[size=45]But on the other hand, the tripartite alliance, in which the Sadrist movement represents the greatest weight, has other options that may topple the "coordination plan."[/size]
[size=45]Behind the scenes, a race is taking place towards the “swinging bloc,” which is the group of representatives and small political forces that are still outside the circle of competition between the “current and the coordination.”[/size]
[size=45]The two parties to the political conflict hope to persuade the largest number of that category, and to include it on its side, to break the barrier of two-thirds of parliament members approved by the Federal Court for the necessity of electing the President of the Republic.[/size]
[size=45]Before the last judiciary decision (two thirds of the seats), the political forces were competing to announce the largest bloc, which is no longer enough now, as everyone is looking for at least 220 seats.[/size]
[size=45]Alternative options[/size]
[size=45]Political sources indicate that the Triple Alliance "has other options if the court accepts the appeal, such as supporting another candidate for the presidency."[/size]
[size=45]The Kurdistan Democratic Party had submitted in the second round of nominations, the Minister of Interior in the Kurdistan Region, Rabeer Ahmed, for the position of President of the Republic, after the exclusion of Hoshyar Zebari from the competition.[/size]
[size=45]On Sunday evening, the Triple Alliance held a meeting in Baghdad, while no information was released from the meeting, which was attended by Parliament Speaker Muhammad al-Halbousi.[/size]
[size=45]The media office of the Speaker of the Iraqi Parliament stated that the tripartite alliance (the Sadrist bloc, the Sovereignty Alliance and the Kurdistan Democratic Party) held a meeting in the capital, Baghdad.[/size]
[size=45]The meeting was attended by the delegation of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, headed by Fadel Mirani, the delegation of the Sadrist bloc headed by Nassar al-Rubaie, in addition to the delegation of the Sovereignty Alliance headed by Khamis al-Khanjar, and Parliament Speaker Muhammad al-Halbousi.[/size]
[size=45]And the media office of Parliament Speaker Muhammad al-Halbousi published pictures of the meeting.[/size]
[size=45]The Federal Court had decided, last Wednesday, to postpone the decision on the claim to reopen the nomination for the post of President of the Republic to the first of March (today, Tuesday).[/size]
[size=45]numbers game[/size]
[size=45]On the other hand, the sources confirmed to (Al-Mada) that "the tripartite alliance can collect about 230 votes in the voting session for the president."[/size]
[size=45]The sources indicated that the seats that will join the coalition will include "independents, in addition to the expansion of the Sunni forces' seats, which reached 70 seats."[/size]
[size=45]The number of seats for the forces that have not officially announced their position towards either side of the litigation is estimated at 46 seats.[/size]
[size=45]This category is represented by the Alliance for the People, which includes 18 seats, the Popular Bloc 4 seats, and the Design Alliance led by Representative Amer Al-Fayez (4 deputies).[/size]
[size=45]In addition to Ishraqa Kanon (6 seats), the Voice of Independents Gathering (4 seats), the Kurdistan Islamic Union (4 seats).[/size]
[size=45]The neutral team also includes the total of the Christian representatives in the Babylonian alliance, who have 4 seats, the Kurdistan Justice Group one seat, and the independent Farouk Hanna from the Christian “quota.”[/size]
[size=45]Thus, the tripartite coalition will announce that it owns two-thirds of the parliament (220 seats) in the event that all independent or neutral groups in parliament join.[/size]
[size=45]The Triple Alliance includes 174 seats, 74 of which are for the Sadrist movement, 69 for the Sunni forces, the Alliance of Sovereignty and Progress, and 31 for the Kurdistan Democratic Party.[/size]
[size=45]The coalition had collected more than those seats in the opening session of Parliament, where it voted for Muhammad al-Halbousi, Speaker of Parliament and a partner of “Al-Sadr” with 200 votes.[/size]
[size=45]Accordingly, the expectations were that the tripartite alliance could easily restore this figure in the event the Federal Court resolved the issue of the nomination of the President of the Republic.[/size]
[size=45]Last Tuesday, Parliament announced a new list of 33 candidates for the post of President of the Republic, adding 8 names from the previous list.[/size]
[size=45]Parliament had published the first time for nominations for the presidency of the Republic 25 names, before being excluded Zebari, and re-open the door for nominations again on February 8.[/size]
[size=45]Article 70 of the constitution states that “the House of Representatives elects from among the candidates a president of the republic by a two-thirds majority of its members (220 deputies out of 329).[/size]
[size=45]So far, no political party has officially announced that it has enough numbers to pass the name of the President of the Republic, but the coordination framework seeks to be "disrupted."[/size]
[size=45]Sources close to the political dialogue rooms say that “the coordination framework does not have a sufficient number to be the blocking third, and it is waiting for negotiations with it.”[/size]
[size=45]And the sources continue, speaking of the new bloc that is supposed to be headed by former Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki: "Their numbers are less than 100, the goal is to push the tripartite alliance to dialogue with it."[/size]
[size=45]Dialogue opportunities[/size]
[size=45]Opportunities for dialogue between the opposing political forces are still circulating behind the scenes, despite the fact that none of them have appeared in public.[/size]
[size=45]The picture, which circulated at the end of last week, of the leaders of the Sunni forces in Turkey, was considered as a mediation to restart the dialogue.[/size]
[size=45]The photo included Al-Halbousi, Speaker of Parliament and leader of the Sovereignty Alliance, Khamis al-Khanjar with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and a fourth man believed to be the director of Turkish intelligence.[/size]
[size=45]No comment has appeared from the Sunni forces or the parties of the Triple Alliance on the photo so far.[/size]
[size=45]The Shiite forces were supposed to officially announce a new bloc last Thursday, but the announcement did not happen until Monday evening.[/size]
[size=45]Rasoul Abu Hasna, a member of the coordination framework, confirms that the bloc called “National Stability” now includes “134 seats.”[/size]
[size=45]The blocking third in Parliament needs less than 110 seats out of 329.[/size]
[size=45]“National Stability” includes all the parties to the coordination framework in addition to independents, according to the “Coordination” parties, while the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan did not announce joining the new assembly, as was expected.[/size]
[size=45]Abu Hasna, a former deputy of the rule of law, said in contact with Al-Mada that "the meetings are now suspended between the coordination framework and the Sadrist movement."[/size]
[size=45]The former MP added: "It is not possible to form a government without negotiations, and the coordination framework will be the blocking third if it does not agree with the Sadrist movement."[/size]
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