Al-Halbousi calls for resorting to the constitution to get through the current crisis

 
Baghdad-INA
 
Parliament speaker Muhammad al-Halbousi called on Tuesday, for resorting to the constitution to get the country out of the current crisis.
 
Al-Halbousi said in a statement received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA): "We previously participated in the elections at the end of last year, after popular protests demanded a change of government and early elections."
 
He added, "Our goal was to reform the situation, give space to the emerging forces in political participation, take their role in political decision-making within the parliament, add stability to political work, and implement real reforms through constitutional institutions,"
 
"Unfortunately, what we have reached today is a more regression than we were previously, through the disruption of constitutional institutions, (suspend the work of the parliament, suspend the work of the Judiciary, a caretaker government)."
 
He stated: "We must all resort to the constitution, and be up to the responsibility to get the country out of this crisis that is heading towards the absence of legitimacy, and may lead to a lack of international recognition of the entire political process, the structure of the state and its outputs."