Federal Court: Suspending the Presidency of Parliament work does not affect on the constitution

The Federal Supreme Court issued a clarification confirming that its state order to stop the work of the Presidency of the Parliament does not affect the validity of the constitutional periods. 

The media center of the court said, in a clarification received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA), that “the state order issued on January 13, 2022, submitted within the lawsuit to challenge the validity of the procedures for the session of the House of Representatives on January 9 this year (concerning the election of the Speaker and his two deputies) does not affect the validity of the terms. 

The constitutionality regarding the completion of the rest of the constitutional entitlements represented by the deadline for electing the President of the Republic and the following procedures regarding assigning the candidate of the most numerous parliamentary bloc to form the government. 

He added that "these constitutional terms and constitutional benefits are affected in only one case if a final decision was issued to cancel the procedures for the session of the House of Representatives on January 9, and this matter has not happened so far and will be considered in the pleading sessions in the presence of the two parties upon completion of the procedures for notifying the defendant in addition to his job.”