Iraq’s highest judicial authority says it has no power to dissolve Parliament
BAGHDAD (AA) – Iraq’s Supreme Judicial Council has said it does not have the authority to dissolve the country’s parliament.
On Wednesday, Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called on the council, Iraq’s highest judicial authority, to dissolve the assembly amid a deep political crisis in the country.
The council said in a statement that it had discussed al-Sadr’s request to dissolve the Parliament and found that it has no authority to disband it.
The council, however, said that it agrees with al-Sadr’s “negative diagnosis of the political situation in the country and the continuing violation of the constitution.”
The judicial council noted that it “stands at an equal distance from all political parties and groups.”
Tension flared up across Iraq in recent days following the nomination of Mohammed Shia al-Sudani as a new prime minister by the Coordination Framework, a coalition of groups close to Iran.
The nomination has triggered mass protests from supporters of al-Sadr, who called for the dissolution of the Parliament and holding early polls in Iraq.
Iraq has been in a political deadlock for nine months following the country’s general elections last October, which failed since then to agree on a new government between the rival parties.
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