A "secret" agreement to continue Mandalawi... no new parliament speaker

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[size=52]A "secret" agreement to continue Mandalawi... no new parliament speaker[/size]

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2024-09-1
Baghdad
The crisis of choosing a candidate to fill the position of Parliament Speaker is still in place, despite the news that speaks from time to time about understandings and political movement towards consensus. However, after the recent events that the country witnessed from the “theft of the century,” the “espionage network,” and the “railways,” the crisis of choosing a new Parliament Speaker has been forgotten.[/size]
[size=45]However, in a new development, the leader of the United Anbar Alliance, Mohammed Al-Dhari, revealed today, Tuesday, a secret agreement to keep the acting Speaker of Parliament, Mohsen Al-Mandalawi, until the end of the current parliamentary session.[/size]
[size=45]Al-Dhari said in a statement followed by “Al-Alam Al-Jadeed” that “the file of electing the Speaker of the House of Representatives has been forgotten and no longer has any importance for the political blocs or the leaderships, especially after the failure of all efforts aimed at bringing the viewpoints of those competing to win the position closer together.”[/size]
[size=45]He added that "the Progress Party seeks to change the rules of the game, represented by renominating a new figure, amending the internal regulations and the principle of majority, and betting on Mohsen Al-Mandalawi remaining as acting Speaker of Parliament until the end of the current session, in the event that there is no agreement to accept the proposals of the Progress Party, led by the dismissed Mohammed Al-Halbousi."[/size]
[size=45]He pointed out that "the presidency of the House of Representatives was decided a short time ago and in an unannounced manner, so that Al-Mandlawi would remain for the remainder of the current parliamentary term."[/size]
[size=45]On August 27, the Victory Coalition, led by Haider al-Abadi, complained about the impact of Sunni differences over the presidency of parliament on the Coordination Framework.[/size]
[size=45]On August 14, the State of Law Coalition, led by Nouri al-Maliki, revealed the possibility of amending the internal regulations of the Iraqi parliament, something that the head of the Progress Party, Mohammed al-Halbousi, has long called for, to allow the nomination of a candidate from his party to succeed him.[/size]
[size=45]This comes after six Sunni parliamentary forces announced that they would nominate a new candidate to fill the position of Speaker of Parliament instead of the dismissed Mohammed al-Halbousi, stressing that they have a parliamentary majority.[/size]
[size=45]The current political dispute revolves around amending the third paragraph 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 the House 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.”[/size]
[size=45]However, some political blocs propose adding a paragraph that gives the authority to open the nomination process again and replace previous candidates for the position of Parliament Speaker.[/size]
[size=45]It is noteworthy that the head of the Sovereignty Alliance, Khamis Al-Khanjar, confirmed on June 25 that what is happening in the Sunni house regarding the position of Speaker of the House of Representatives is differences, not disputes, and will be resolved soon, pointing to the intervention of the leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, Masoud Barzani, in the crisis.[/size]
[size=45]Voting for the Speaker of the House of Representatives requires a quorum of half plus one of the number of seats in Parliament, which the Sunni forces do not have, as the number is 166 representatives, and the Progress Party, which has the majority of Sunni seats, only has about 35 seats.[/size]
[size=45]On May 18, the House of Representatives failed to elect a new speaker, after failing to hold a “decisive” third round to tip the scales in favor of one of the candidates, MP Salem Al-Issawi from the Sovereignty Party, and Mahmoud Al-Mashhadani, who is supported by the Progress Party.[/size]
[size=45]The voting witnessed a fierce competition between MPs Salem Al-Issawi and Mahmoud Al-Mashhadani, as the former received 158 votes, while the latter received 137 votes. MP Amer Abdul-Jabbar also received 3 votes, while the invalid votes amounted to 13 votes. 311 MPs (out of a total of 329) cast their votes in the first round, which began at 4:00 pm Baghdad time.[/size]
[size=45]However, the third round did not see the light of day due to a quarrel between the representatives that developed into a fistfight, as the representatives’ phones documented a verbal altercation and fistfight between representatives from Progress and colleagues from other blocs over the election of a parliament speaker.[/size]
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