{"id":40092,"date":"2026-03-28T13:52:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T13:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/40092\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T13:52:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T13:52:38","slug":"iraq-parliament-nears-date-for-presidential-vote-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/40092\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq Parliament nears date for Presidential vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                            2026-03-28T09:51:06+00:00<\/p>\n<p>                                    font<\/p>\n<p>                                            Enable Reading Mode<\/p>\n<p>\n                                        A-<br \/>\n                                        A<br \/>\n                                        A+\n                                    <\/p>\n<p>Shafaq News- Baghdad <\/p>\n<p>Iraq\u2019s parliament is moving to set a date for electing a new<br \/>\nPresident, First Deputy Speaker Adnan al-Dulaimi said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, al-Dulaimi underscored the need to advance<br \/>\nlong-delayed constitutional obligations, noting that Iraq\u2019s current regional<br \/>\nand domestic conditions require political forces to support parliamentary<br \/>\ninitiatives and prioritize national stability.<\/p>\n<p>He further pointed to the importance of a fully functioning<br \/>\ngovernment capable of meeting public expectations on security, stability, and<br \/>\ndevelopment, warning that continued delays could disrupt state institutions and<br \/>\nweaken their performance.<\/p>\n<p>The push comes after 220 out of 329 members of parliament<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/shafaq.com\/en\/Iraq\/Majority-of-Iraqi-lawmakers-back-Monday-vote-to-elect-president\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">signed<\/a> a request calling for a session next Monday to elect the President. In a<br \/>\nletter addressed to the parliament\u2019s Speakership, the lawmakers \u2014representing<br \/>\nmore than two-thirds of the legislature\u2014 argued that the move \u2018\u2019aligns with<br \/>\nconstitutional provisions and reflects current political needs.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Iraq\u2019s power-sharing system allocates the presidency to a<br \/>\nKurd, the prime ministership to a Shiite, and the speakership to a Sunni Arab.<br \/>\nEfforts to elect a president have repeatedly stalled due to disagreements<br \/>\nbetween the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of<br \/>\nKurdistan (PUK), the two main Kurdish parties, which have not agreed on a joint<br \/>\ncandidate, preventing the quorum required for a vote.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shafaq.com\/en\/Report\/Iraq-s-Presidential-Race-Kurdish-candidates-competing-for-the-post\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more: Iraq\u2019s Presidential Race: Kurdish candidates competing for the post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-03-28T09:51:06+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Baghdad Iraq\u2019s parliament is moving to set a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[14],"tags":[17161,152,94,17158,5362,17160,17159],"class_list":["post-40092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iraq","tag-adnan-al-dulaimi","tag-breaking","tag-iraq","tag-iraq-parliament-nears-date-for-presidential-vote","tag-iraqi-parliament","tag-president-election","tag-quorum"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116307135293437112","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}