The end of voting for the election of the new Speaker of the Iraqi Parliament and the beginning of the counting of votes
| Referring to the meeting of the Iraqi Parliament to elect a new speaker, Iraqi sources announced that the counting of the votes of the representatives present in the meeting has begun. |
report Mehr News Agency According to Al-Furat News, Iraqi sources, referring to the meeting of the Iraqi Parliament to elect a new president, announced that the counting of the votes of the representatives present in the meeting has begun.
These sources announced that the voting is over and the counting process has started.
Minutes ago, it was announced that the session of the Iraqi parliament began to elect a new speaker. At the beginning of the session, Salem Al-Eisawi, Talal Al-Zubaei, Amer Abdul Jabbar and Mahmoud Al-Mashhadani were nominated for the chairmanship of the parliament.
Al-Furat News reported that Talal al-Zubaei, one of the candidates for the presidency of the parliament, withdrew his nomination in favor of Mahmoud Al-Mashhadani at the last moment.
Iraqi sources announced that the main competition will be between Al-Eisawi and Al-Mashhadani.
It should be said that during the past few months, four meetings of the Iraqi parliament to elect a new president were unsuccessful. Before this, Tadegh Party, headed by Mohammad Al-Halbousi, the deposed Speaker of the Iraqi Parliament, announced that his candidate for this position is Mahmoud Al-Mashhadani. Mahmoud Al-Mashhadani has previously also served as the head of the Iraqi parliament.
Other Sunni political groups have also nominated other people such as Salem Al-Eisawi for this position.
