Huda Jassim (Baghdad)
The Iraqi parliament has set tomorrow, Thursday, a date for a session to elect the president of the republic, after failing to do so several times, and Iraq’s continuation of a political crisis that also includes a lack of consensus on naming a new prime minister. The Iraqi parliament stated in a brief statement that its speaker, Muhammad al-Halbousi, announced that the work of the parliament session tomorrow, Thursday, will discuss one item, which is the election of the president of the republic.
Reports indicated that fears revolve around a return to the quorum method to thwart the session, if an agreement is not reached between the two main Kurdish parties, the “Kurdish Democratic Party” led by Massoud Barzani, and likewise the “PUK” party led by Pavel Jalal Talabani is trying.
On the other hand, the Council voted on the decision to terminate the assignment of Ihsan Abdul-Jabbar as Minister of Finance.
And the Iraqi News Agency quoted a statement by the Media Department of the House of Representatives, that βthe House voted on the decision to terminate the assignment of Ihsan Abdul-Jabbar from the position of Acting Minister of Finance.β
The statement added that “at the request of the presidency, the House of Representatives voted to approve adding a paragraph to the session’s agenda to end the assignment of the acting minister of finance.”
Last August 16, Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi assigned Oil Minister Ihsan Abdul-Jabbar, to manage the tasks of the Ministry of Finance after the resignation of Minister Ali Abdul-Amir Allawi from his position.
For months, the Iraqi parliament failed to elect a new president of the republic due to the lack of a quorum to attend the voting session against the backdrop of the stifling political crisis and sharp differences between the parliamentary components.
And the pace of political leaders in Iraq is accelerating towards finding quick solutions and understandings that lead to the formation of a government after the election of a president, amid expectations of a return to violence with the lapse of a full year since the early elections, at a time when the security presence continues in the capital, Baghdad, in an unprecedented manner.
Those leaders did not disclose the results of the visit of a high-level delegation to Erbil, except for a statement that confirmed that the meeting discussed the political situation and the negotiating process for holding the next parliament session, choosing the president of the republic and forming the federal government.
For nearly a year, a political crisis has continued in Iraq, causing clashes that left dead and wounded, and differences between the “Sadr movement” and the “coordinating framework” have prevented the formation of a new government since the last elections on October 10, 2021.
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