The Iraqi parliament opens nominations for the election of its speaker.
The Iraqi parliament opens nominations for the election of its speaker.
2025-12-29 03:03
Shafaq News – Baghdad
The oldest member of parliament, MP Amer Al-Fayez, has begun opening the nomination process for the election of the new Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Immediately after taking the constitutional oath, Al-Fayez began the procedures to elect the new Speaker of Parliament, where Amer Abdul-Jabbar Salem Al-Issawi and Hebat Al-Halbousi are competing for this position.
Al-Fayez emphasized in a speech that Article 55 of the Constitution stipulates the election of the Speaker of the Council and his two deputies in the first session, and there is no open session.
The Iraqi parliament, in its sixth session, began earlier on Monday with the opening of its first parliamentary session, chaired by the oldest member, Amer Al-Fayez.
In a speech delivered during the opening session, Al-Fayez called on the new members of parliament to adhere to the constitutional timelines and to elect the Speaker of the House and his two deputies.
The session began after a quorum was reached with the attendance of 292 members of the council, according to a correspondent for Shafaq News Agency in Parliament.
The reporter said that the attending MPs took the constitutional oath in both Arabic and Kurdish, which are the two official languages of the country.
The Presidency of the House of Representatives consists of a Speaker and two Deputy Speakers, who manage the legislative sessions and organize the work of the Council. According to the political traditions followed after 2003, the position of Speaker of Parliament is allocated to the Sunni component, the First Deputy Speaker to the Shiite component, and the Second Deputy Speaker to the Kurdish component.
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