Al-Sadr comments on the Federal Court decision

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  • 13-01-2022, 20:28
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    Baghdad-INA 


    The leader of the Sadrist movement, Muqtada al-Sadr, commented today, Thursday on the decision of the Federal Court to temporarily suspend the work of the Presidency of Parliament. 

    Al-Sadr said in a tweet on his Twitter account, and the Iraqi News Agency (INA) followed it: “If the Federal Court’s decision to temporarily suspend the work of the Presidency of the Parliament without pressure, it is the first step to finding opposition in Parliament and not resorting to violence towards forming a majority patriotism government. ". 

    Al-Sadr expressed his hope, “that the opposition will work for the public good and take into account the constitutional terms and even take into account the people’s need and desire to expedite the formation of the government to carry out its security, economic and service duties and hold the corrupt accountable, not obstruct it for the sake of political gains,” noting that “the people’s interest is higher and more valuable than partisan, sectarian and political interests. 

    He also stressed that "the opposition and the allegiance are together in order to save Iraq from the clutches of occupation, normalization, terrorism, corruption and dependency," calling: "that you be a national opposition, and we adhere to the ethics of a national majority government, and from God, the homeland and the people we derive help." 

    Today, Thursday, 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 court’s media center said, in a clarification received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA), that “the state order issued on January 13, 2022 submitted within the lawsuit regarding 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 The validity of the constitutional periods 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 .