Aqil Al-Radini, a Victory Coalition member, announced today, Tuesday, that the Speaker of Parliament will be chosen in the next few days.
Al-Radini said in a statement to Al-Maalouma Agency, “The past few days have witnessed intensive meetings between the Sunni parties and the Coordination Framework,” stressing that “during all the meetings, no agreement was reached on any person to pass to the position of Parliament Speaker.”
Al-Radini said that “the proposals and alternatives that were put forward during the meetings of the political forces did not culminate in a final collective decision,” so stressing that “the proposal to open the door for nominations for new figures is dependent on changing the internal regulations of the House of Representatives.”
Observing that “the session to choose a replacement for Halbousi will be held in the coming few days,” he said that “the Coordination Framework seeks to bring the Sunni forces to a joint agreement among themselves on one of the candidates, so resolving the issue of the parliament presidency, especially since the framework does not want to breach the political balance in the country.”
The efforts of the Progress Alliance to win him, despite awareness that the compass points to another candidate, helped to block the nomination of a candidate for the post of Speaker of the House of Representatives by the Sunni forces.