Parliament resumes its sessions amid a charged atmosphere with the implementation of the confidence

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[size=52]Parliament resumes its sessions amid a charged atmosphere with the implementation of the confidence renewal agreement for Al-Halbousi[/size]

[size=45]Despite the tense atmosphere in Baghdad, the House of Representatives held its first session in more than three months, which witnessed the renewal of confidence in its president, Muhammad al-Halbousi, based on an agreement between the Sovereignty Alliance and the Coordination Framework, and granting the position of the first deputy to Mohsen al-Mandalawi, who is described as an independent.[/size]
[size=45]The security forces began their preparations for the session early, and since the hours of the night, when they cut a number of bridges, most notably the Al-Jumhuriya and Al-Sinak bridges leading to the Green Zone.[/size]
[size=45]In the early hours of the morning, Baghdad witnessed a heavy traffic jam due to security measures, forcing employees and students to walk long distances amid popular discontent.[/size]
[size=45]Pictures from inside Parliament transmitted the arrival of the representatives, including the one assigned by the coordination framework to form the government, Muhammad Shia Al-Sudani.[/size]
[size=45]The House of Representatives confirmed in an official statement that the session will not include voting on the candidate for the President of the Republic, in an attempt to absorb the anger of those who refuse to proceed with the formation of the government.[/size]
[size=45]In conjunction with the start of the security measures, a number of citizens gathered in Tahrir Square since the night before the session was held, and they increased with the day and tried to cross to the Green Zone in the morning, but after they crossed the first barrier at the Jumhuriya Bridge, they retreated a little under the influence of the measures taken by the security forces.[/size]
[size=45]On the other side of the bridge, and at the Karada Mariam area near the parliament building, pictures showed a heavy presence of the army and military mechanisms to prevent the demonstrators from reaching.[/size]
[size=45]The first hours of the morning passed heavy on Baghdadis because of the traffic jams and the large number of blocks, as if the capital had lived in complete paralysis. These measures not only affected the citizen, they forced Parliament to postpone its session for some time because many MPs were not able to arrive until late.[/size]
[size=45]By two o'clock in the afternoon, the parliament bell rang, announcing the start of the session, with an initial attendance of 203 deputies, but this number increased after that to reach 235 deputies.[/size]
[size=45]The attendance was from all blocs, most notably the Coordination Framework, the Sovereignty Bloc, the Kurdistan Democratic Party, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan and other small blocs, while the independents boycotted the session, refusing to move towards consociationalism again.[/size]
[size=45]The session was initially chaired by the second Vice-President, Shakhwan Abdullah, who presented Al-Halbousi's request for his resignation to the deputies, and the purpose of this was to implement an agreement between the Sovereignty Alliance and the Coordination Framework to renew confidence in him and get rid of embarrassment in the face of the Sadrist movement.[/size]
[size=45]The council voted by an overwhelming majority to reject the resignation of Al-Halbousi, amid applause and ululating from his supporters in his bloc.[/size]
[size=45]Meanwhile, Saleh Muhammad al-Iraqi, who is close to the leader of the Sadrist movement Muqtada al-Sadr, published a tweet in which he commented on the parliament session, saying, "The homeland is more important than your positions, your chairs, your authority, your weapons, your projects, your trade, your money, your families, and your palaces."[/size]
[size=45]Al-Iraqi continued, "We will not participate with you, we will not be compromising with you, and we will not negotiate with you to complete the corruption deal and return Iraq to square one and the failed equation that God forbade because it harmed the country and was forbidden by the reference when it said: (The tested is not tested), not with the same people, nor with the same system, nor with the same constitution, nor With the same mechanisms, not with the same militias, not with the same subordination, not with the same method.”[/size]
[size=45]And the Iraqi threatened the coordinating framework by saying, “By God, if you go back to how you were, it is the end of Iraq, but also your end… So fear God if you are able to do that after the world has tempted you and has drawn the devil’s ropes around you and its adornments and tricks are good for you.. and not when you regret it.” After Al-Halbousi won the confidence again, he chaired the session and opened the door for candidacy for the position of the first deputy speaker of the House of Representatives. The contenders were Representatives Mohsen Al-Mandalawi, Yasser Hashem Al-Husseini and Basem Khashan.[/size]
[size=45]During the parliament's vote on the position of the first deputy, a number of mortar rockets fell inside the Green Zone, and sirens sounded in the place.[/size]
[size=45]And the Security Media Cell announced in an official statement received by (Al-Mada), that "the attack on the Green Zone caused the injury of a number of security personnel, including an officer."[/size]
[size=45]The statement added, "The first shell fell in front of the Iraqi parliament building, the second near the guest house, and the third near the control of Jerusalem."[/size]
[size=45]Al-Iraqi issued another tweet confirming his refusal to use violence and weapons, accusing the occupier and his cohorts of terrorism and the remnants of the Saddamist Baath or parties that want to undermine the reputation of reform and reformers, or accusing the revolutionaries of that.[/size]
[size=45]After that, the House of Representatives announced that Mohsen Al-Mandalawi had won the position of First Deputy Speaker, succeeding the resigned Hakim Al-Zamili, and then Parliament adjourned its session.[/size]
[size=45]A parliamentary statement received by Al-Mada confirmed that "Al-Halbousi directed the parliamentary committees to resume their work and work to host the ministers in the caretaker government and those concerned with it, and follow up the stages of implementing the Food Security Law and other laws."[/size]
[size=45]Al-Halbousi called, according to the statement, “the political forces to sit at one table to find a political way out for the country,” stressing that “there should be a comprehensive political solution in which everyone bears his responsibilities and what is entrusted to him before the people.”[/size]
[size=45]This comes at a time when the demonstrators continued their protest activities in Tahrir Square, with reports that a number of people were injured when trying to cross into the Green Zone.[/size]
[size=45]In a related development, a government statement stated, "The Prime Minister, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Mustafa Al-Kazemi directed the security forces to follow up and arrest the perpetrators of the crime of missile bombing of the Green Zone."[/size]
[size=45]Al-Kazemi stressed, according to the statement, "the need for the security forces to abide by their duties in protecting state institutions, public and private properties, and peaceful demonstrators," calling on "demonstrators to adhere to peacefulness, and to the directives of the security forces about places to demonstrate."[/size]
[size=45]He continued, "The current security situation is a reflection of the political situation," reiterating the call for "dialogue between all the forces dealing with the political issue; To get out of the current crisis, support the state and its institutions to carry out their tasks, spare citizens the consequences of political conflicts, maintain security, and reject any prejudice to social peace.[/size]
[size=45]He stressed, "the need for continued cooperation and coordination between the authorities."[/size]
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