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Ivantulafitov: The Iraqi parliament adjourned on Saturday its session to next Monday. A brief statement by the Parliament's media department stated that the Speaker of the House of Representatives adjourned the session to elect the President of the Republic next Wednesday, while a regular session will be held on Monday.

Tishwash: Parliament adjourns its session to next Monday

G8way2k: Groundhog day

Annie68: If they end up keeping a caretaker government Maliki will never be dealt with,as he's still in the government. How do these people ever get anything done? Are the citizens ready to take to the dtreets? Maybe that's what has to be done? No industry is ever going to come in to a country that can't meet long enough to seat a government.

Annie68: The CBI is never going to turn this on to a government that can't even elect the officials.

NetGlobal: My question is if they don’t vote on Monday can the caretaker government open the budget?

Golferiam: It's a wonder there is anything left of the "can"...or the shoe kicking it.

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Tishwash: The House of Representatives raises its session to Monday and sets next Wednesday to elect the president

The Iraqi parliament adjourned on Saturday its session to next Monday.

A brief statement by the Parliament's media department stated that the Speaker of the House of Representatives adjourned the session to elect the President of the Republic next Wednesday, while a regular session will be held on Monday.

On Saturday, Parliament Speaker Muhammad al-Halbousi opened a regular session of the House of Representatives, attended by 202 deputies, in a session that was scheduled to choose the President of the Republic. link

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Tishwash: Legal experts to Obelisk: The inability to choose the president until April 6 pushes for early elections obelisk

He told the legal expert Ali Al-Tamimi that in the event that the date of April 6 is exceeded only, without the election of the President of the Republic, the political process will be in clear violation of the decision of the Federal Supreme Court, which authorized the opening of the nomination door for one time, and we will be facing .an irresolvable failure And he continued in an interview with Al-Masala, Saturday, March 26, 2022 that in this case, Parliament is dissolved at the request of one-third of the members and the approval of the absolute majority of the number of members in accordance with Article 64 of the Constitution or a referendum of the Federal Supreme Court if this is done to find out .the constitutional outlet

Al-Tamimi explained that, according to the Federal Court’s decision to open the door for nomination for the position of President of the Republic for one time only No. 24 of 2022.. He has a period of 30 days for the Presidency of Parliament in accordance with Article 72 II of the Iraqi Constitution from March 6 to April 6, during which the President .. of the Republic is elected in a binding manner

And he continued: After setting the date of March 26 to hold the session, in the event that the new President of the Republic is not chosen, the Parliament presidency can postpone it until April 6 only. For dissolution, Parliament may be dissolved at the request of one-third of the members and the approval of the absolute majority of the number of members in accordance with Article 64 of the Constitution, or a referendum of the Federal Supreme Court if this is .done to find out the constitutional outlet

He continued, "Maybe - if this happens - we will be facing new early elections, and the current government will ".continue to conduct daily affairs in accordance with the same article above

Al-Tamimi added: In the event that voting begins to choose the new President of the Republic, who stipulated the Federal Court’s decision to open the session with a two-thirds majority of the total number of Parliament, that means 220 deputies, and that they were present at the start of voting, according to the Federal Court’s decision to open the nomination door with this percentage in the first round. Which of the candidates on this percentage will be in front of a second round in which the competition is limited to the first and second highest winners, and either of them gets the .majority of votes

He explained: This means that if the first gets 50 votes and the second gets 30, the owner of the 50 votes will be the President of the Republic, who will be president and take the constitutional oath before Parliament and in the presence .of the President of the Federal Court in accordance with Article 70 of the Constitution and Law 8 of 2012

Al-Tamimi went on to say: The election is by direct secret ballot by placing the papers in the box at

He concluded by saying: After that, the President of the Republic assigns the candidate of the most numerous .parliamentary bloc within 15 days of taking the oath, which has not yet been determined

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Tishwash: Find out the full details of today's parliament session

Today, Saturday, the House of Representatives, headed by Speaker of Parliament Mohamed Al-Halbousi, held its fourth session of the fifth electoral cycle for the first legislative year of its first term, in the presence of 202 deputies .

At the beginning of the session, Mr. Al-Halbousi explained that the paragraph of electing the president of the republic requires a quorum of two-thirds of the council’s members, as approved by the Federal Court and stipulated by the constitution in this regard, indicating that the failure to achieve the required quorum requires us to continue holding sessions until the quorum for electing the president is achieved .

In another matter, the Council voted to add the first reading of the draft law on emergency support for food security and development as a new paragraph on the agenda of the session, in addition to the Council’s vote on the membership of 12 deputies in the Parliamentary Finance Committee to proceed with the procedures of a number of legislations .

The Council completed the first reading of the draft law on emergency support for food security and development and referred by the government in order to achieve food security, reduce poverty, achieve financial stability in light of urgent global developments, continue to provide services to citizens, raise the standard of living, create job opportunities, and maximize the use of Iraqis from state resources and resume work on suspended projects. And the delay and the progress of new projects of importance .

The Speaker directed the completion of the nomination of members of the Finance Committee and the second reading of the draft law on emergency support for food security in a session next Monday, as well as announcing the appointment of a session next Wednesday to elect the President of the Republic .

Then it was decided to adjourn the session to next Monday link

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