A third list is expected of presidential candidates with a simple majority and the “Coordination Com

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[size=52]A third list is expected of presidential candidates with a simple majority and the “Coordination Committee”: We have entered a whirlpool[/size]

[size=45]Baghdad / Tamim Al-Hassan[/size]
[size=45]The Federal Court threw the ball into the political forces' goal, after it allowed Parliament (and not only its presidency) to open the door for nomination "a third time" for the position of President of the Republic. It is expected that the tripartite alliance will freely obtain a decision by the House of Representatives to renew the nomination, after the court canceled the list of previous nominations.[/size]
[size=45]On February 8, Parliament opened the door for nomination for a second time, after the previous month’s deadline expired without choosing a president.[/size]
[size=45]Part of the "Federal" decision, whose issuance was delayed for several weeks, angered the coordination framework, which expected the constitutional vacuum to continue.[/size]
[size=45]The decision was twofold: the first canceled the list of nominations issued a few days ago, and the second gave the green light to Parliament to hold a session to draw up a new list of candidates for the presidency.[/size]
[size=45]The decision came amid the continuation of the "political blockage" that has been going on for more than a month, after the two parties to the conflict (the tripartite and coordination alliance) failed to have a two-thirds majority to pass the president of the republic.[/size]
[size=45]opportunity to negotiate[/size]
[size=45]Najm al-Qassab, a researcher in political affairs, considered the Federal Court's decision as "giving an opportunity for the political forces to negotiate."[/size]
[size=45]The leader of the Sadrist movement, Muqtada al-Sadr, had decided in early February to "freeze the negotiations" following the exclusion of Hoshyar Zebari, the most prominent candidate for the presidency, from the list of contenders for the position.[/size]
[size=45]Al-Qassab added in a call yesterday with (Al-Mada): "This time will enable the two Kurdish Democratic and Union parties to reach understandings about the candidate for the presidency of the republic, as well as with the Shiite forces."[/size]
[size=45]The two major Kurdish parties engaged in more than one round of negotiations, the last of which was the Democratic Party's compromise by giving the "Union" ministries in Baghdad in exchange for the former getting the presidency.[/size]
[size=45]The Kurdistan Democratic Party had submitted the Minister of Interior in the Kurdistan Region, Reber Ahmed, to the post of President of the Republic, after excluding Hoshyar Zebari from the competition.[/size]
[size=45]Al-Qassab pointed out that the decision issued yesterday by the Federal Court "gave the tripartite alliance strength, and will go by a simple majority (half + one of the parliament's seats) to open the door for candidacy for the presidency" for the third time.[/size]
[size=45]Yesterday, Tuesday, the Federal Court decided that it was unconstitutional to reopen the nomination for the post of President of the Republic.[/size]
[size=45]The court’s decision, (1 March 2022), confirmed that “there is no constitutional or legal text that grants the Presidency of the House of Representatives the authority to reopen the door for candidacy for the position of President of the Republic.”[/size]
[size=45]He added, "It was decided that reopening the door for nomination for the position of President of the Republic was unconstitutional," noting "the possibility of reopening the door for nomination again for the position of President of the Republic, but by a decision of the House of Representatives and not from the presidency of the Council."[/size]
[size=45]On Tuesday last week, 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]On the other hand, the leader of the Sovereignty Alliance - one of the parties to the Triple Alliance - revealed that the latter would proceed with holding a session to reopen the candidacy door once again.[/size]
[size=45]Al-Jubouri said in a tweet on "Twitter" that "the Federal Court recognizes the right of the House of Representatives, not its presidency, to reopen the door for candidacy for the position of President of the Republic."[/size]
[size=45]He added, "When one of the candidates does not get the votes needed to win the position, which means that the next parliament session will be to vote on reopening the door for candidacy again for the position of President of the Republic and not to vote on the position."[/size]
[size=45]Article 72b of the constitution stipulates the election of a new president within a maximum period of 30 days from the first session of the elected parliament, and this period has already expired, considering that parliament held its first session on January 9.[/size]
[size=45]In order to prevent a presidential vacuum, the Federal Supreme Court decided, on January 13, to keep President Barham Salih in office until the election of a new president.[/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]Back to the thirds knot[/size]
[size=45]According to the last text of the constitution, Muhammad al-Baldawi, a deputy from the Al-Fateh coalition - one of the pillars of the coordination framework - believes that the court's decision "will collide with achieving a two-thirds majority."[/size]
[size=45]Last February, the Federal Reserve explained the quorum for the presidential elections, with 220 deputies in Parliament.[/size]
[size=45]Next week, the new month's deadline stipulated in the constitution in Article 70 is supposed to expire, and the parliament will hold a session to elect the president of the republic after the failure of the first.[/size]
[size=45]Al-Baldawi said in an interview with (Al-Mada) that: “The second part of the decision will plunge us into a cycle, as Parliament will continue to open the door for nomination for the fourth, fifth and sixth time, and indefinitely if no party is able to have a two-thirds majority to pass the President of the Republic.”[/size]
[size=45]And information has reached (range) recently, according to which the tripartite alliance can gather in the voting session for the president about 230 votes (a two-thirds majority of 220).[/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]But Al-Baldawi, who is a representative of Salah al-Din, believes that "the parliament had the solution instead of wasting all this time, which is to go to understandings and dialogue and choose a president that satisfies all parties."[/size]
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