Controversial laws put the paragraph on electing the Speaker of Parliament in the shelf of oblivion

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[size=52]Controversial laws put the paragraph on electing the Speaker of Parliament in the shelf of oblivion[/size]

[size=45]More than 8 months have passed and the position of Parliament Speaker still lacks a new speaker, at a time when controversy is escalating over the approval of the general amnesty law and the amendment of the Personal Status Law, meaning that the clause on electing the president is forgotten.
The Progress parliamentary bloc revealed an agreement to amend the internal regulations of Parliament, stressing that the position of the Speaker of Parliament is the party’s share.
The Progress MP, Haibat al-Halbousi, said that “there are ongoing dialogues and discussions about the crisis of the Parliament Speakership.”
He continued, “The matter will be resolved in the coming few days, as the position of Parliament Speaker is the entitlement of an entire component and a political bloc represented by the Progress Party.”
Al-Halbousi pointed out that “Progress has reached an agreement with the political blocs to proceed with opening the door to amending the internal regulations of Parliament, specifically “Article 12,” considering that the Progress Alliance currently does not have a candidate among the existing names for the Speaker of Parliament.”
It is noteworthy that two candidates are competing for the presidency of Parliament, Mahmoud al-Mashhadani from the Azm Alliance and Salem al-Issawi from the Sovereignty Alliance.
For his part, the leader of the United Anbar Alliance, Mohammed Al-Dulaimi, revealed the possible scenarios for passing the election of a new Speaker of Parliament.
Al-Dulaimi said, “There are three possible scenarios for passing the election of the Speaker of Parliament: that the candidate of the Sovereignty Alliance, Salem Al-Issawi, who has a wide presence and support from the Sunni and Shiite alliances, proceeds, or that Al-Mandlawi remains the acting Speaker of Parliament until the end of the current parliamentary session, or that the nomination process be opened.”
He explained, “The second option gives the impression that the Shiite component controls the positions until the Sunnis’ entitlements, and this is not acceptable to the Shiite component.”
He pointed out that “the third option gives the impression to the Sunni public that the dismissed Speaker of Parliament, Mohammed Al-Halbousi, is the one influencing the Coordination Framework.”
Al-Dulaimi pointed out that “Al-Halbousi rejected Al-Issawi and any figure from Anbar to assume the Speaker of Parliament because this affects the prestige of the empire he built for himself within the province.”
In turn, Ahmed al-Moussawi, a member of the Coordination Framework, said, “The political movement and dialogues are ongoing, and the framework forces are still playing a role in bringing viewpoints closer together. They do not want to stand with one party against another, but rather want to achieve Sunni consensus and agreement on a figure supported by everyone, to prevent reaching the stage of bone-breaking between the political parties.”
For his part, Mehdi Abdul Karim, a member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, said, “There is political insistence on deciding the election of the Speaker of the Iraqi Parliament within the next few days, especially after giving the Sunni political forces enough time to resolve and resolve their differences, but these differences are worsening day after day.”
Abdul Karim explained that “the political forces will move towards holding a session to elect the Speaker of Parliament as a third round, and whichever candidate gets the highest number of votes will be the next Speaker of the Iraqi Parliament. We cannot wait for the Sunni parties to agree with each other after realizing that this has become impossible, despite all the mediation and dialogue.” He added: “We expect that the session to elect the Speaker of the House of Representatives will be set within the next two days, and it may be held at the end of this week or the beginning of next week, and the current political movement is taking place according to these dates, and it will be finally set after the meeting of the State Administration Coalition in two days.”
The House of Representatives has failed five times in a row to resolve the issue, amid a division between the political parties in supporting one of the candidates for the position, namely Mahmoud Al-Mashhadani, the candidate of the Progress Party, and Salem Al-Issawi, the candidate of Sovereignty, Determination and Decisiveness, who obtained the majority of votes during the last session of the Iraqi parliament. The last session to elect the new speaker of the Iraqi parliament, which was held at the end of last May, witnessed a fistfight.
One of the representatives was injured in his head as a result of a quarrel between two representatives, each of whom belongs to a party competing with the other to win the position, in addition to insults and curses between representatives and the acting speaker of parliament, Mohsen Al-Mandalawi, which led to the intervention of security forces to break up the quarrel, and most of the representatives and heads of political blocs leaving the parliament hall, and the session being adjourned until further notice.[/size]
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