Legal experts after the federal decision: The election of the President of the Republic will be among the 24 candidates for the first time
Baghdad / Obelisk: Legal expert Ali Al-Tamimi said, on Tuesday, March 1, 2022, that all the personalities who were nominated for the presidency of the republic after opening the door for candidacy by the Presidency of Parliament, their candidacy is unconstitutional and rejected, after the Federal Court’s decision, that reopening the door for nomination is unconstitutional for the position of President of the Republic.
Al-Tamimi said in an exclusive interview with Al-Masala, that all the candidates, including the Democratic Party candidate, who entered the nomination in the second stage are unconstitutional and rejected, and the number will remain 24, because their candidacy violates the constitution, and therefore Parliament will select the President of the Republic from among the candidates who were nominated for the first time.
And the Federal Court decided, on Tuesday, the unconstitutionality of reopening the nomination for the position of President of the Republic, while indicating the possibility of reopening the nomination door again by a decision of the House of Representatives and not from the presidency of the Council.
In its decision regarding the appeal to reopen the candidacy for the post of President of the Republic, the court said that there is no constitutional or legal text that gives the Presidency of the House of Representatives the power to reopen the door for candidacy for the post of President of the Republic.
She added that it was decided unconstitutional to reopen the nomination for the position of President of the Republic, noting the possibility of reopening the nomination for the position of President of the Republic, but by a decision of the House of Representatives and not from the Presidency of the Council.