Controversial laws stall.. Calls to dissolve the Iraqi parliament and hold early elections

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[size=52]Controversial laws stall.. Calls to dissolve the Iraqi parliament and hold early elections[/size]

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12/14/2024
Iraqi Council of Representatives (archive photo)
Disagreements between parliamentary blocs in the Iraqi Council of Representatives continue to prevent the passage of some controversial laws, despite their repeated inclusion on the agenda.[/size]
[size=45]Parliamentarians revealed the existence of a parliamentary movement demanding early elections and ending the current session of the Council, as it has not yet been able to legislate important disputed laws, despite extending the legislative term.[/size]
[size=45]Parliament's failure to pass these laws has sparked widespread public criticism, while observers doubt its ability to pass these laws within the remaining period of the current parliamentary term.[/size]
[size=45]Academic and political analyst Ahmed Karim Al-Alwani says that the legislative and oversight role of the Iraqi parliament is linked to the nature of the political game and political understandings more than it is linked to the philosophy of the parliament’s political system and its constitutional foundations.[/size]
[size=45]“That’s why Al-Alwani adds, ‘I don’t imagine that with the time or the approaching end of the fifth electoral cycle, this law will pass and perhaps be postponed to the sixth electoral cycle.’”
The delay in approving many important laws will weaken the legislative and oversight role of the House of Representatives, according to political observers, who criticize the parliament’s resort to the principle of political consensus, which has led to the postponement of important laws that the Iraqi street is anticipating.[/size]
[size=45]Political analyst Wael Al-Hazim says that this continuous delay in enacting laws “puts us in front of the image that this session is the worst of previous parliamentary sessions.”[/size]
[size=45]This procrastination in the work of Parliament, according to Al-Hazim, will put the political blocs and their representatives in the House of Representatives in a very embarrassing position before their voters and before the public.[/size]
[size=45]Al-Hazim added in an interview with Al-Hurra that the parliament’s stumbling makes Iraqis believe that the House of Representatives has become “an unnecessary and empty circle, and its existence has become a burden on the federal budget and a burden on the shoulders of the Iraqi citizen,” according to him.[/size]
[size=45]The House of Representatives failed to hold its regular session on December 8, which included voting on proposed laws, Personal Status Law No. 188 of 1959, returning properties to their owners covered by some decisions of the dissolved Revolutionary Command Council, and the second amendment to the General Amnesty Law.[/size]
[size=45]The House of Representatives elected Mahmoud al-Mashhadani about a year after the dismissal of the former Speaker of Parliament, Mohammed al-Halbousi, by a decision of the Federal Court based on a forgery claim. The Parliament failed to elect a speaker several times in light of political differences and divisions within the Sunni house.[/size]
[size=45]Diaa Mohammed - Anbar[/size]
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