Nominating a new parliament speaker without any immediate solutions since last year, 2023.

Disagreements continue between Iraqi political forces over the nomination of the new Speaker of the House of Representatives, to succeed former President Muhammad al-Halbousi, whose membership was terminated by the Federal Supreme Court on charges of forgery, while various political parties confirm that there are no immediate solutions to this crisis since 2023.

During the last period, the Iraqi Parliament failed three times to hold a session to elect a new president, due to not achieving a quorum, and various political parties boycotted the sessions, as no candidate was passed before a political consensus was reached among the political parties since 2023.

From a sectarian perspective, Al-Halbousi he consider himself a representative of the political Sunni Islamic forces in the Iraqi parliament. Al-Halbousi considers his targeting to be a sectarian targeting of the Sunni social component in Iraq, which raises a new wave of political and social instability in the country in general.

Not only that! From a sectarian perspective in the political division of power in Iraq, political leaders must exclusively choose a Sunni president for parliament, which leads to the outbreak of political disputes within the Sunni community in Iraq over who will represent them in the next stage.

“It is sad for us as people to live within a system that imposes its political values on us, so we feel forced to normalize this sectarian political division of the country.”

This system and its political contradictions generate at every moment within our neighborhoods sectarian problems between religions, nationalities, and sects, and even generate conflicts between the sect itself.

The ruling power coalition “Etar Tansiqi”¹ in Iraq said on Twitter, “The differences between the political parties regarding choosing a new speaker of Parliament still have no clear solution, and the views are divergent.”

Moreover, the negotiations stopped due to the preoccupation with the provincial council elections, which took place on December 18, 2023.

The Etar added that “the session to elect a new president requires consensus among the parties concerned,” stressing that “disagreements are concentrated among the Sunni political parties over their candidate for the position.”

But the “Al-Azm²“ coalition stated that the political differences regarding the election of the Speaker of Parliament “are not limited to Sunni forces only, but even the Shiite forces within the Etar tansiqi are divided among themselves over the names nominated for this position.”

People complain every day about the ongoing state of political instability that Iraq has experienced since the 2003 USA war. This situation creates a difficult psychological atmosphere within our neighborhoods that affects people’s mood and their desire to continue living in Iraq. In addition, the unstable situation within the neighborhood leads to the outbreak of internal economic and political conflicts on a simple social level between the sects themselves like dismissal from work due to political stances, feelings of injustice, lack of sovereignty, domestic violence, isolation…etc.

1. It is an Islamic political alliance that describes itself as a representative of the Shiites within Parliament. This alliance is constantly accused of having political allegiance to the Islamic Republic of Iran. ↩︎
2. It is an Islamic political alliance that describes itself as a representative of the Sunnis within Parliament. This alliance is constantly accused of having extremist nationalist and religious political ideas. ↩︎