“The crisis is approaching a solution”.. A ​​new candidate enters the race for the presidency of Par

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[size=52]“The crisis is approaching a solution”.. A ​​new candidate enters the race for the presidency of Parliament[/size]

[size=45]The position of Speaker of Parliament has been vacant since the dismissal of Mohammed al-Halbousi about ten months ago, despite the nomination of several figures from the Progress Party headed by al-Halbousi, the Sovereignty Party led by Khamis al-Khanjar, and also from Azm Party headed by Muthanna al-Samarrai. None of the candidates received the number of votes that would qualify them to win the presidency despite holding a number of rounds.
On Tuesday, the political blocs representing the Sunni component announced their agreement to nominate a new candidate for the presidency of Parliament after collecting the signatures of 55 representatives and submitting him to the political blocs for voting.
Regarding this matter, legal expert Saad al-Bukhati says, “After the first nomination for the position of Speaker of Parliament, no new names can be put forward except in one case, which is amending the internal regulations of the House of Representatives. Without that, the current candidates will remain unchanged.”
He adds, “Political consensus prevails over the constitutional articles and the internal regulations of the House of Representatives, and it is the one that proceeds at the expense of all constitutional and legal standards.”
A political source revealed on Monday that the Progress Party, led by Halbousi, had submitted its candidate for the presidency of the House of Representatives, Ziyad al-Janabi, to the Coordination Framework, after Shaalan al-Karim withdrew from the Progress Party from running for the position, while the other candidates, Salem al-Issawi and Mahmoud al-Mashhadani, failed to obtain the sufficient number of votes from the members of Parliament.
In turn, political analyst Raji Nasir explains that “this issue is a kind of maneuver by Halbousi, who does not want the presidency of Parliament to be taken out of his hands, and in this case he will succeed in two issues: the first is to ensure that he retains the presidency of Parliament by nominating a person on his behalf, and the second is to confirm the failure of the previous decision that was taken not to open the door for nominations for the presidency of Parliament.”
He confirms that “it may be a maneuver by Halbousi and also to prevent the leakage of members of the Progress Party and announcing their defection in exchange for joining the competing Sunni parties.”
He points out that “the Coordination Framework is fully aware of these moves, but the issue remains within the framework of the Sunni agreement, which must agree on a non-controversial person according to what the owner of the parliamentary majority informed him of.”
The current political dispute revolves around amending paragraph three of Article 12 of the House of Representatives’ internal regulations, which relates to the election of the Speaker of Parliament, which states: “If the position of the Speaker of Parliament or any of his deputies becomes vacant for any reason, the House shall elect a successor by an absolute majority in the first session it holds to fill the vacancy in accordance with the controls of political balances between the blocs.”
However, some political blocs are proposing to add a paragraph that gives the authority to reopen the nomination process and replace previous candidates for the position of Speaker of Parliament.
In addition, political analyst Athir Al-Sharaa believes that “there are signs of a solution to the issue of the Speaker of Parliament on the horizon, especially after the statement issued by the Sunni political blocs regarding the new candidate for the position.”
He expects that “there is a political settlement and a new candidate other than Al-Issawi and Al-Mashhadani, who expressed their readiness to withdraw from the nomination for the position, and perhaps during the next stage we will hear a statement regarding the end of the crisis of the Speaker of Parliament.”
Yesterday, Tuesday, the parties and blocs of Progress, National Masses, National Decisiveness, Leadership, Iraqi National Project, and Initiative announced in a joint statement that they had reached an agreement on nominating a person for the presidency of the Council of Representatives.
This is something that the Coordination Framework rejects, and it is also a violation of the Federal Court’s decision, which stipulates that the competition is between candidates who have previously applied for the position, and it is not permissible to nominate a new candidate, as this violates Article 12 of the Council of Representatives’ internal regulations, which must be amended in order to pass a new candidate, something that the Coordination Framework also rejects. It
is noteworthy that the State of Law Coalition, led by Nouri al-Maliki, expected on Monday of last week that Mohsen al-Mandalawi would continue as the speaker of the Iraqi Council of Representatives until the end of the current parliamentary session.[/size]
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