Iraq held parliamentary elections on the tenth of last October, and disputes are still ongoing regarding their results, especially by the forces of the armed factions that suffered a severe defeat, and are still objecting to the results and demanding their annulment, before the judiciary.
And last Sunday, the Federal Supreme Court of Iraq postponed consideration of the lawsuit filed by the political wings of the armed factions, against the election results, to next Monday’s session.
The head of the Al-Fateh Alliance, Hadi Al-Amiri, the head of the Popular Mobilization Authority, Faleh Al-Fayyad, and the leaders of the “Asa’ib Ahl Al-Haq” movement, Adnan Faihan, and Naim Al-Aboudi, as well as Ahmed Al-Asadi, head of the “National Bond” bloc, and Yasser Sakhel Al-Maliki, a leader in the State of Law coalition, attended. The proceedings of the hearing, which was considered an attempt to pressure the court to respond to them.
last stops
The lawsuit is the last chapter of the election crisis in Iraq, after the counting and hand counting ended, and the appeals submitted to the judiciary, which led to minor changes, in only five seats.
The political circles are awaiting Monday’s session, which will be held by the Federal Court, to consider the case of the coordination framework forces, amid expectations that no rulings will be issued regarding the cancellation of the election results, especially since the President of the Supreme Judicial Council, Faiq Zaidan, spoke in previous statements about the absence of manipulation or fraud. In the results, which gives the judges the green light to dismiss the “coordinating framework” lawsuit, and to certify the results once and for all.
In this context, the retired judge, Wael Abdel Latif, believes that “behaving the path of the law and the constitution by appealing to the Federal Supreme Court is a sound path, if it is based on strong legal challenges that enable the court to respond, but all indications confirm that the elections took place based on They agreed to the commission and contributed to the legislation of the election law, without realizing that this law reduces the presence of parties in parliament.
Abdel-Latif added, in a statement to “Sky News Arabia”, that “democratic mechanisms support the change of political forces based on the data of their work, and therefore the people punished those parties,” noting that “the coming days are undoubtedly youthful, as evidenced by the votes of independents.” It has exceeded two million votes, which is more than any winning bloc.”
And the Iraqi judge added, “By analogy, the Sadrist movement won 885,000 votes, and if the independents had organized themselves sufficiently, they would have obtained 130 seats, thus becoming the most numerous parliamentary bloc.”
The lawsuit came, after sit-ins in the capital, Baghdad, especially in the vicinity of the Green Zone; In objection to the election results, it also comes amid veiled threats directed to the Electoral Commission, which the losing blocs demanded to re-count and manual count, earlier.
The losing forces were unable to achieve their goal, through the field escalation and the demonstrations, which have greatly diminished, during the last period, forcing them to resort to the judiciary and put pressure on this path, which means postponing the ratification of the results, but press sources talk about the imminent final approval of the decision. The results, especially since the evidence presented regarding tampering or fraud does not support a major decision such as annulment of election results.
In turn, the legal expert, Ali Al-Tamimi, believes that “ratifying the results is the last stop in the guarantees of the elections, as the Federal Court scrutinizes all the measures taken in the elections’ steps, and whether they are in accordance with the constitution and the law or not.”
Al-Tamimi added to “Sky News Arabia” that “this approval means support, giving and constitutionalizing the results, and this comprehensive scrutiny of the Federal Supreme Court, will be even in the absence of appeals or objections.”
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