The Iraqi Supreme Court will meet on August 30 to decide whether it is competent to request the dissolution of Parliament

Aug. 26 (EUROPA PRESS) –

Iraq’s Supreme Court will meet next Tuesday, August 30, to decide whether it is competent to request the dissolution of the Iraqi Parliament, as required by a lawsuit filed by the movement of the powerful cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, a strong man in the country and winner of the last legislative elections held last year, a direct precedent of the last political paralysis that the country is going through.

Al Sadr, who has been unable to form a government since then, has decided to break the deck and request the dissolution of the chamber to request new elections. The great losers of the last elections, the pro-Iranian parties, as well as other rivals of the cleric, have asked him to open the door to a concentration government, but the clergyman demands instead a majority government, proportional to the results of the elections .

In the midst of this chaos, tens of thousands of followers of the cleric have returned to the streets of the capital, Baghdad, this Friday, in a new show of force like those that have occurred in recent weeks and that led, on two occasions, to , in sit-ins by supporters of the religious inside the Parliament building.

Although the Supreme Court has insisted from the outset that it is not within its power to even rule on the dissolution of Parliament for violating the separation of powers, the pressure has ended up causing it to end up meeting even if it is to issue a firm opinion on the lawsuit presented by the political leader of Al Sadr’s movement, Nasar al Rubaie.

In its statement this Friday, the Court insists, in fact, that among its powers “there is none that allows the judiciary to interfere in the matters that the legislative or executive authorities are implementing, due to the principle of separation of legislative powers , executive and judicial” stipulated in the Constitution of the Republic of Iraq, reports the official Iraqi news agency INA.