Demonstrations of chaos as Iraq’s new parliament takes place in the first phase | Political Issues

A new parliament in Iraq has done it part one about three months after the Iraqi people voted in an election whose results were opposed by powerful Iranian-backed groups.

As a result of the dispute, Sunday’s meeting was disrupted, with 73-year-old senior member of parliament Mahmoud al-Mashahadani transferred to a hospital.

The press office in Parliament did not comment further on the condition of the Shahratians except that his blood count.

The process of electing a speaker was disrupted when rival political parties claimed to have a majority of MPs.

Al Jazeera’s Mahmoud Abdelwahed said a temporary speaker had been appointed and the session resumed.

“There has been a lot of turmoil here,” he said, in a press release from parliament.

“Half an hour after the inauguration of the newly elected parliament, we heard a heated argument between members of parliament and we heard that the former Speaker of Parliament Mahmoud was hospitalized,” Abdelwahed said.

The congressional hearing about that were exactly what I needed to do.

Parliament had to elect a speaker and two ministers at their first sitting.

Traditionally, the speaker of the Iraqi parliament is Sunni, the prime minister is Shia and the President is Kurdish.

Parliament also has 30 days from the first meeting to elect a new president of the country, who will then ask the National Assembly to form a government.

Intra-Shia incompatibility

Pro-Iranian groups lost a lot in early elections, which was brought up in response to protests that have been going on for months on the streets demanding change.

The following led to street protests from supporters of political parties that did not win the by-elections,

Last month, a federal court in Iraq approved the results of the October election, confirming the victory of the victorious Shia leader. Moqtada al-Sadr.

Al-Sadr won 73 seats in the 329-member parliament, according to final results, and has the power to nominate a new prime minister. But he has to deal with conflicts with Shia rival factions that continue to reject the election results and want him to have a say in forming a government.

The second Sunni al-Taqdum (Progress) alliance won 37 seats.

Pro-Iran groups that allegedly committed voter fraud have lost almost two-thirds of their seats – a serious problem.

Militants set up tents and camped around the Green Zone, home to the Iraqi government and many foreign delegates, for more than two months, when they appealed to the Iraqi Supreme Court.

Zeidon Alkinani, an Iraqi political analyst, said the biggest obstacle to forming a government was the Shia-led conflict over the al-Sadr alliance and the Shia Coordination Framework formed by pro-Iranian opposition groups such as former Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. State of Law, Fatah alliance and allies.

“Sadrist’s party is trying to form a great government this time,” Alkinani told Al Jazeera.

“They believe they have the confidence and strength to go to the polls at this time to establish a supreme government of their own – a government that can lead them as a Shia politician in such a great state along with their Kurdish and Sunni allies.”

On the other hand, he added, “The Shia Coordination Framework is exercising its powers within and outside the government to ensure that the coalition government includes them, even if they are defeated in an election”.

“The only alliance we see right now is the alliance within the Sunni movement under Taqdum,” he added.

On Sunday, al-Sadr activists marched on a rally in Baghdad wearing white death belts, following a ritual of Mohammed al-Sadr, Moqtada’s father, witnesses said.

Independent lawmakers, meanwhile, arrived at the rally on a tuk-tuk, or rickshaws, from Tahrir Square in Baghdad, where anti-government protests began in October 2019, the witness added.

Tuk-tuks were used to transport wounded people during violent demonstrations.