Sep. 26 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The president of the Iraqi Parliament, Mohamed al Halbusi, has presented his resignation this Monday in the face of the political crisis that the country is going through after the massive protests that left at least 30 dead in the capital, Baghdad.
Halbusi has confirmed that he has not discussed the decision, which will be voted on Wednesday, with the leaders of the political blocs, arguing that one of his reasons for leaving the post is due to the lack of consensus of a political majority in the country, according to picked up the NINA news agency.
In this sense, he explained during the Al Rafidain Forum, which is being held in Baghdad, that another of the reasons that have led him to withdraw from office is the postponement of the first session in Parliament, scheduled for September 20, and that it was postponed by the prime minister, Mostafá al Kazemi, for “security reasons”.
“We have to start a new stage, and I give the members of Parliament the right to express their opinion on the resignation. This is the most difficult year in history, in which political problems are reflected in political parties,” he explained. , according to the Shafaq news portal.
In an attempt to unblock the political situation, the Iraqi prime minister announced a dialogue table with the political forces and parties. Kazemi told the 77th session of the UN General Assembly on Saturday that “the time has come to rebuild the region on the basis of balanced politics.”
The latest mobilizations, which claimed the lives of at least 30 people, were carried out by ‘Sadrist’ supporters of the Shiite cleric Muqtada al Sadr, in the surroundings of the Green Zone of the capital, where the main government institutions are located. and diplomatic.
Al Sadr, who had spent weeks mobilizing his hundreds of thousands of supporters in Baghdad to the point of having taken over Parliament twice, announced his withdrawal from political life. The cleric had previously demanded the calling of new elections after months of failure to form a government.
