Christian or independent temporary speaker to Parliament
July 25, 2010 - 10:14:20
BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: The two alliances of the Al-Iraqiya and the National Alliance had a meeting on Sunday to choose a temporary speaker to the Iraqi Parliament, provided that he should be either Christian or independent.
“The meeting had occurred prior to political blocs’ meeting,” a source from the Iraqi National Alliance (INA) told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
Representatives of Iraqi political blocs have started a meeting on Sunday in the Constitutional Room of the Iraqi Parliament’s Building, Baghdad, to discuss the crisis of forming the country’s new government.
The source noted that the two alliances have agreed that governmental officials who have not sworn in as members of the new Parliament should make the oath during tomorrow’s session of the House of Representatives.
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