The Speaker of the Iraqi Parliament presents a 10-point plan to overcome the crisis
The Speaker of the Iraqi Parliament presents a 10-point plan to overcome the crisis
9-5-2022
Iraqi Parliament Speaker Muhammad al-Halbousi put forward a 10-point plan to resolve the current political crisis in the country, while Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi called on Iraqi political forces to hold a dialogue session on Monday, the third within a month. Although all Iraqi political forces attended the first session of the National Dialogue, which Al-Kazemi sponsored about three weeks ago, his second call to complete the first session was disrupted due to the violent incidents that occurred in the Green Zone between supporters of the Sadrist movement and the forces of the “coordinating framework”, which led to the killing and wounding of dozens. from both sides.
While it has not been confirmed whether the second session of the National Dialogue will be held on Monday or within this week, attention is turning to what could be issued on Wednesday by the Federal Supreme Court, which will hopefully issue its decision regarding the request to dissolve Parliament submitted by the Sadrist movement. .
Regarding the parliament speaker’s 10-point plan, Al-Halbousi said in a tweet on Twitter that “the agenda of the upcoming national dialogue sessions should include a number of things that the political process cannot proceed without agreement on them, the most important of which are: setting a date for early parliamentary elections and elections.” Provincial councils at a date no later than the end of next year, the election of the president of the republic, and the selection of an agreed-upon government with full authority and trust and confidence for the people and their political forces.
Al-Halbousi added that “Article 76 of the constitution must be reinterpreted, and the shameful circumvention of the manipulation of the provision of this article, which occurred under political pressure after the 2010 elections, must be re-interpreted, in addition to the adoption of the Federal General Budget Law.” Al-Halbousi also suggested “keeping or amending the parliament elections law, as well as legislating the law of the Federal Supreme Court according to Article 92 of the constitution.” The parliament speaker expanded his demands to include “the redeployment of military and security forces of all kinds, and the Ministry of Interior exclusively assumes the deployment and imposition of security in all cities, and the rest of the forces are in their natural place in the training and deployment camps determined by the military and security leadership, while providing everything necessary to be on standby.” for any emergency.
Al-Halbousi also stressed the need for “the immediate return of all the innocent displaced people who have abandoned their homes and have not been able to return to it so far.” According to a close associate of al-Halbousi, the ten points put forward by the parliament speaker “came in agreement between the Sovereignty Alliance, the Sadrist Movement and the Kurdistan Democratic Party, and it is supported by these three parties.” He added that “communication between the parties to the (Save a Homeland) coalition is still ongoing, and there are many steps that come in coordination between them, the latest of which is the initiative that Al-Halbousi has announced now, which will be supported by Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi, the sponsor of the national dialogue sessions.”
In this context, the professor of international media at the Iraqi University, Fadel Al-Badrani, told Asharq Al-Awsat that “the parliament speaker’s tweet, which included 10 points, was focused, reflecting a new development to invigorate the parliament and revive its sessions.” Al-Badrani added that the plan “indicates the desire of the boycotted party (the Sadrist movement) to open up, and draws a new work map for the political process that has been hit by failure and stagnation due to the policy of breaking the bone between important parties in the political process represented in the Sadrist movement’s conflict and the coordination framework, as well as the Democratic and Kurdistan Union parties. ».
Al-Badrany stressed that “Al-Halbousi’s plan came to meet the requirements of the pressing reality on the opponents that the political scene needs restoration after everyone tired of its precursors, especially after it became clear that the conflict of the coordination framework and the Sadrist movement took a long time without resolving a victory at the expense of the other, as well as crystallizing the idea Everyone has the opinion that early elections in October (October) 2023 are the solution that gives vent to the situation of conflagration and blockage that threatens the stability of the country.”
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