Al-Halbousi: We will continue to hold sessions until the quorum for the election of the president is achieved
Baghdad – Parliament Speaker Muhammad Al-Halbousi confirmed, on Saturday, that Parliament will continue to hold its sessions until the quorum for the election of the President of the Republic is achieved.
And the Media Department of the House of Representatives stated in a statement that “Nass” received a copy of it (March 26, 2022), that “the House of Representatives held today, Saturday, its fourth session of the fifth electoral cycle for the first legislative year of its first term, in the presence of 202 deputies, and completed the first reading of the support bill.” Emergency Food Security and Development, and set next Wednesday as the date for electing the President of the Republic.
Al-Halbousi explained that “the paragraph of electing the president of the republic requires a quorum of two-thirds of the council’s members, as approved by the Federal Court and stipulated by the constitution in this regard,” noting that “the failure to achieve the required quorum requires us to continue holding sessions until the quorum for the election of the president is achieved.”
He pointed out that “the council voted to add the first reading of the draft law on emergency support for food security and development as a new paragraph on the agenda of the session, in addition to the council’s vote on the membership of 12 deputies in the Parliamentary Finance Committee to proceed with the procedures of a number of legislation.”
He added that “the Council completed the first reading of the draft law on emergency support for food security and development, which was referred by the government in order to achieve food security, reduce poverty, achieve financial stability in light of urgent global developments, continue to provide services to citizens, improve the standard of living, create job opportunities, and maximize the use of Iraqis from state resources and resume Working on stalled and lagging projects, and moving on with new projects of importance.
According to the council’s statement, “Al-Halbousi directed to complete the nomination of the members of the Finance Committee and the second reading of the draft law on emergency support for food security in a session next Monday, as well as announcing the appointment of a session next Wednesday to elect the President of the Republic, after which it was decided to adjourn the session to next Monday.”