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Iraqi parliament re-elects speaker Al-Halbousi

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  • Source: Agencies
  • 28 Sep 2022 18:06
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The Iraqi parliament re-elects House Speaker Mohammad Al-Halbousi after 222 MPs out of 329 MPs refused to vote "yes" on his resignation.

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The Iraqi parliament voted on Wednesday to grant its confidence to House Speaker Mohammad Al-Halbousi after the majority of MPs refused to agree to his resignation.

The vote "renewed the confidence in Parliament Speaker Mohammad Al-Halbousi, with 222 members of parliament rejecting his resignation," the Iraqi parliament said in a statement.

مجلس النواب يصوِّت على تجديد الثقة برئيس مجلس النواب @AlHaLboosii بـتصويت 222 نائبا على رفض الاستقالة.

-العدد الكلي للمصوتين 235 نائبا
-عدد الموافقين على الاستقالة 13 نائبا pic.twitter.com/s9k6zBUhFI

— المكتب الاعلامي لرئيس مجلس النواب 🇮🇶 (@mediaofspeaker) September 28, 2022

The total amount of voters was 235 MPs, and the number of those that accepted Al-Hablousi's resignation was 13 MPs, the Parliament revealed. The Iraqi House of Representatives has 329 seats.

Iraqis took to the streets in Baghdad earlier in the day in protest of the parliament session, though they were dispersed by the Iraqi Security Forces.

Al-Halbousi had called earlier this month for a date for early parliamentary elections to be included on the agenda of the national dialogue session and the election of the provincial councils no later than the end of next year.

Al Mayadeen's correspondent in Baghdad said Monday that Al-Halbousi's resignation would be rejected during Wednesday's Parliament session, and confidence in him would be renewed.

Mohamed Al-Halbousi revealed that he was considering the resignation, but he did not discuss it with anyone, stressing the need for relations between political forces to be normal.

Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi said his country is going through a "political crisis that may be the most difficult after 2003," according to the Iraqi News Agency.

Al-Kadhimi also thanked Iraq's security forces who are "still deployed throughout Iraq to pursue terrorists while providing at the same time protection for pilgrims."

The head of the Supreme Judicial Council in Iraq, Faiq Zaidan, called on September 10 for a review of the drafting of the articles of the constitution that caused the political impasse in the country against the background of the Sadrist movement’s demand to dissolve parliament and the coordination framework's insistence to form a government first.

The Federal Supreme Court of Iraq rejected on September 7 the lawsuit submitted by a number of leaders of the Sadrist movement calling for the dissolution of the House of Representatives, citing that dissolving the Council was not within its jurisdiction.

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"These provocative, unilateral actions are complicating the security situation and casting its shadows on the region, and it will only cause tension," Baghdad's top diplomatic body added.

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