The collapse of the agreement on a replacement for Al-Halbousi and the selection of a speaker of Par

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[size=52]The collapse of the agreement on a replacement for Al-Halbousi and the selection of a speaker of Parliament who was transferred until after the election results[/size]

[size=45]Baghdad/ Tamim Al-Hassan[/size]
[size=45]Muhammad al-Halbousi, the dismissed Speaker of Parliament, and specific parties in the coordination framework won the round of selecting a new Speaker of the House of Representatives by postponing the issue until after the local elections that will be held next Monday.[/size]
[size=45]News leaked about the existence of “side deals” on the eve of the parliament session dedicated to electing the new president, which prompted the obstruction of holding the session under the pretext of “preoccupation with the elections.”[/size]
[size=45]In any case, Sunni parties that were enthusiastic about holding the session believe that choosing a person to head Parliament will be more clear after the results of the local elections appear.[/size]
[size=45]The Shiite framework, which became the primary controller of the issue of choosing the Speaker of Parliament, was close to resolving the issue after agreeing to two candidates for the position.[/size]
[size=45]The Federal Court decided in mid-November to dismiss Al-Halbousi based on a “forgery” lawsuit filed by Representative Laith Al-Dulaimi, who was also dismissed by the court due to the same lawsuit.[/size]
[size=45]The Speaker of Parliament criticized the decision, describing it as “political,” and his Taqadum party threatened to resort to the streets and international prosecution in response to the overthrow of Al-Halbousi.[/size]
[size=45]For unknown reasons - expected to be appeasement or pledges made by the framework - Al-Halbousi's tone declined, but his party insisted on postponing the session to select the alternative for as long as possible.[/size]
[size=45]Late on the eve of the supposed session yesterday, Wednesday, to choose a new speaker of Parliament, the Presidency of the House informed the representatives that the session had been postponed until “further notice.”[/size]
[size=45]Behind the scenes of the Sunni forces, talk is leaking about a “side agreement” that took place between Al-Halbousi and Muthanna Al-Samarrai, the leader of the Azm Alliance, who aspires to obtain the position of Speaker of Parliament, which caused the issue to be postponed..[/size]
[size=45]Mishaan Al-Jubouri, a former MP and dissident from Al-Halbousi’s party, says, “It was the head of a naive Sunni bloc that led to the postponement of the special session.”[/size]
[size=45]Mishaan confirms in a series of tweets on the XN platform: “The head of one of the Sunni blocs close to the framework agreed with the deposed person (referring to Al-Halbousi) to issue a joint statement from their blocs requesting that the session for electing the Speaker of the House of Representatives be postponed.”[/size]
[size=45]He stated that it was agreed to postpone the session until “after the provincial council elections, in exchange for the ousted person’s pledge that his bloc will vote for the other candidate seeking the presidency of the House of Representatives.”[/size]
[size=45]Muthanna Al-Samarrai had put his name on the list of candidates, and he also presented Mahmoud Al-Mashhadani, a leader in Azm, as another candidate for the position, and he enjoys the support of part of the coordination framework.[/size]
[size=45]The leaks speak about the rest of the agreement, that other parties within the Shiite framework were “not welcoming the holding of the session before the elections because they need a longer time to determine their options and the name of the candidate.”[/size]
[size=45]In addition, until the last hours of political negotiations, no agreement had been reached on one of three candidates: Al-Mashhadani, MP Salem Al-Issawi, and Al-Samarrai.[/size]
[size=45]A Sunni politician close to the negotiations confirmed in a call with Al-Mada that “the file was postponed until after January 9” after the results of the provincial council elections were announced.[/size]
[size=45]Two days before Wednesday's canceled session, Al-Halbousi's opponents had leaked news of the "Framework"'s approval of the two representatives, Al-Issawi, from the Sovereignty Alliance, led by Khamis Al-Khanjar, and Al-Mashhadani, Azam.[/size]
[size=45]More than two weeks ago, the Sunni forces handed over the names of between 5 to 7 candidates to the coordination framework, which said that the candidates would be scrutinized.[/size]
[size=45]Atheel Al-Nujaifi, a leader in the Hasm Alliance, which includes traditional Sunni leaders, says, “The framework is the one who handles the issue of selecting the Speaker of Parliament, but it also does not want to clash with the administration of the Sunni community.”[/size]
[size=45]Al-Nujaifi confirmed to (Al-Mada) that the coordination framework “will wait for the elections to be held to see where the Sunni community’s choice will go and who are the parties that will gain the greatest support, and then (the framework) will agree with them.”[/size]
[size=45]Al-Nujaifi believes that the coordination framework can now ally with any Sunni party that it can trust, but in return, “it does not want to clash with any other party.”[/size]
[size=45]Therefore, the Sunni leader says: “It is better for the framework to wait after the results appear and support the most reliable personality or party in the Sunni street.”[/size]
[size=45]There is talk behind the scenes that Al-Maliki, the leader of the rule of law, supports the nomination of Mahmoud Al-Mashhadani because of what is said to be “returning the favor” to the latter, who last year obstructed a session in Parliament that almost overthrew the Shiite framework’s ambition to rule.[/size]
[size=45]Al-Mashhadani was at the time the Speaker of Parliament, which had just convened following a political debate and “framework” demonstrations against the results of the legislative elections in 2021, when the former pretended that he had been beaten inside the Assembly - according to what he declared in television interviews - to prevent what was known as the tripartite alliance (Al-Sadr, Al-Halbousi, and the Hezbollah Party). Democratic) from forming the government.[/size]
[size=45]On the other hand, other parties in the "Frame", such as Ammar al-Hakim and Haider al-Abadi, tend to agree with a candidate presented by al-Halbousi, while Qais al-Khazali (the leader of Asaib) supports the Azm coalition.[/size]
[size=45]The “Framework” had reached the conviction that the issue would be postponed until after the elections, to avoid any political instability that might hamper the vote, before information leaked about the existence of a quasi-agreement, which was dissipated last Tuesday night.[/size]
[size=45]In response to the official reason for canceling yesterday’s session, Thaer Makhif, representative of the State of Law, told Al Mada: “If the representative had a real issue, he could have freed up two hours of his time to attend the session, but there are those who used the elections as an excuse not to attend.”[/size]
[size=45]The Media Department of the House of Representatives stated in a statement that the session was postponed “due to the members of the House of Representatives being busy with the provincial council elections and the apology of many blocs for the presence of their representatives.”[/size]
[size=45]Makhif believes it is likely that the agreements will collapse over one candidate, and confirms that “the issue has almost been settled and the choice of the Speaker of Parliament will be after the elections.”[/size]
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