{"id":62065,"date":"2026-04-11T12:31:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T12:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/62065\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T12:31:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T12:31:05","slug":"huqooq-bloc-joins-boycott-of-iraq-presidential-election-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/62065\/","title":{"rendered":"Huqooq bloc joins boycott of Iraq presidential election session"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                            2026-04-11T12:16:18+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-<br \/>\nBaghdad<\/p>\n<p>Iraq\u2019s Huqooq<br \/>\n(Rights) parliamentary bloc, the political wing of Kataib Hezbollah armed<br \/>\ngroup, boycotted the presidential election session on Saturday, rejecting \u201cimplicit\u201d<br \/>\npolitical agreements linking the vote to the selection of a prime minister.<\/p>\n<p>The bloc\u2019s<br \/>\nsix lawmakers withdrew from the session, a move that does not affect the<br \/>\nrequired quorum of 220 out of 329 members.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at<br \/>\na press conference, MP Hussein Moanes stressed that the bloc had conditioned<br \/>\nits attendance on the absence of any prior arrangements over naming a prime<br \/>\nminister-designate, adding that \u201cwhat we observed today contradicts that<br \/>\nunderstanding.\u201d He described the reported coordination between some factions on<br \/>\nboth the presidency and premiership as unclear and unacceptable.<\/p>\n<p>MP Mohammed<br \/>\nal-Hassnawi explained that the decision reflects opposition to entrenched<br \/>\npolitical practices, particularly informal deals shaping government formation.<br \/>\nHe underlined that the bloc would not endorse processes that \u201creproduce<br \/>\nfailure,\u201d calling instead for transparency and a clear path toward forming the<br \/>\nnext government.<\/p>\n<p>Parliament<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/shafaq.com\/en\/Iraq\/Iraq-Parliament-opens-presidential-vote-with-17-candidates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">convened<\/a> earlier today with 223 lawmakers present to elect a president from 16<br \/>\ncandidates, surpassing the constitutional quorum. The vote is a prerequisite to<br \/>\nnaming a prime minister under Iraq\u2019s post-2003 power-sharing system, which<br \/>\nallocates the presidency to a Kurd, the premiership to a Shiite, and the<br \/>\nspeakership to a Sunni Arab. The process has stalled for months due to disputes<br \/>\nbetween the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of<br \/>\nKurdistan (PUK) over a joint candidate, alongside internal disputes within the Shiite<br \/>\nCoordination Framework, which nominated former PM Nouri al-Maliki but remains<br \/>\nsplit over his candidacy amid reported US opposition.<\/p>\n<p>Several<br \/>\nfactions \u2014including the KDP, the State of Law Coalition, and the Al-Azm<br \/>\nAlliance\u2014 also boycotted the session, arguing that proceeding without prior<br \/>\npolitical consensus violates power-sharing norms, while other blocs\u2014including<br \/>\nthe National State Forces Alliance, the Taqaddum Party, the PUK, the<br \/>\nReconstruction and Development Coalition, Sadiqoon, and the Iraqi Turkmen<br \/>\nFront\u2014 insisted on holding the session as scheduled.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shafaq.com\/en\/Iraq\/Iraq-s-April-11-presidential-vote-Who-will-attend\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more: Iraq\u2019s April 11 presidential vote: Who will<br \/>\nattend?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-04-11T12:16:18+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Baghdad Iraq\u2019s Huqooq (Rights) parliamentary bloc, the political&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62066,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[23637,23638,23636,94,23639],"class_list":{"0":"post-62065","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iraq","8":"tag-boycott","9":"tag-huqooq-bloc","10":"tag-huqooq-bloc-joins-boycott-of-iraq-presidential-election-session","11":"tag-iraq","12":"tag-iraq-presidential-election"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116386089003347704","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62065","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=62065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}