Barzani’s initiative..a meeting between the framework, the current and the Sunni and Kurdish forces in Baghdad
Shafaq News / A source in the Shiite coordination framework revealed, on Tuesday, that a meeting of Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish political forces will be held at the end of this week in the capital, Baghdad.
The source told Shafaq News Agency, “The meeting will include the leader of the Sadrist movement, Muqtada al-Sadr, or his representative, the head of the Fatah Alliance Hadi al-Amiri, leaders from the coordination framework, the head of the Progress Alliance, Muhammad al-Halbousi, and the representative of the presidency of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Patriotic Union.”
He pointed out that “the meeting will discuss preparations for holding a session to elect the president of the republic without any political crisis, in preparation for assigning an appropriate person to form the next government during the period specified by the constitution.”
This movement comes in the wake of an initiative launched by Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani, which led to the meeting of the Triple Alliance, in Al-Hanana (Sadr’s residence in Najaf), which included Nechirvan Barzani, President of Kurdistan Region (the Democratic Party), Khamis Al-Khanjar and Muhammad Al-Halbousi for (sovereignty), with the chest.
Only seven days remain until the date of the election of the President of the Republic of Iraq, as the Iraqi parliament is scheduled to hold a session, the second of its legislative life, next Monday, in which the president is chosen.
Most of the odds indicate that Hoshyar Zebari, the candidate of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, will be president of the republic, and that the latter will assign the Sadrist bloc’s candidate to form the Iraqi government.
In terms of numbers, the tripartite alliance (Al-Sadr, the Democratic Party and the Sovereignty) constitutes about two-thirds of the parliament’s members, as the Sadrist bloc has 73 seats, the Democratic Party has 31, and the Sovereignty Alliance has 67 seats, bringing a total of 171 seats out of a total of 329 deputies.
Shafaq News / Legal expert Tariq Harb expected on Tuesday that the Federal Court will reject the lawsuit filed by the two deputies of the coordination framework regarding the most numerous bloc.
Baghdad – The Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Shakhwan Abdullah, announced that all technical preparations for holding the presidential election session on the seventh of this month have been completed, stressing that the election of the presidency will not be postponed, even for one hour, from its scheduled date.
Shafaq News / The leader of the Sovereignty Alliance, Khamis al-Khanjar, valued, on Monday, the initiative launched by the leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, Massoud Barzani, to resolve the dispute between the coordination framework and the Sadrist movement, and unify the Shiite house.
Baghdad – The Military Industrialization Authority will open this year new lines for the production of light and medium weapons, such as rifles and pistols, in an effort to achieve self-sufficiency and support the national economy.
Mubasher: The First Deputy Speaker of the Iraqi Council of Representatives, Hakim Al-Zamili, chaired, today, Sunday, a meeting with senior advisers to the House of Representatives.
Direct special – Mr. Jamal: Iraq achieved a remarkable increase in oil export revenues during 2021 on an annual basis; Amid the improvement in global oil prices compared to the previous year, during which they were affected by the Corona pandemic crisis and the downturn in the global economy, the average selling price of a barrel of oil increased by more than 78% on an annual basis.
Baghdad – Mawazine News: Hakim Al-Zamili, First Deputy Speaker of Parliament, chaired, on Sunday, a meeting with senior advisers to the House of Representatives, while instructing to expedite the preparation of a comprehensive strategy for legislative and oversight policy for this parliamentary session, and to form a committee to follow up on the implementation and activation of the government’s suspended laws.