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Al-Sadr sets a time limit for dissolving Parliament Aug 10, 2022 Today, Wednesday, the leader of the Sadrist movement, Muqtada al-Sadr, called on the Supreme Judicial Council to dissolve the House of Representatives next week, while the President of the Republic called for setting a date for early "conditional" elections. Al-Sadr said in a tweet via Twitter, followed by Alsumaria News, "I am addressing my words to the Iraqi judiciary, from which we still hope for the best despite the political and security pressures and leaks it is subjected to from here and there, provided that it dissolves Parliament after constitutional violations within a period not exceeding the end of next week." Assigning the President of the Republic to set a date for early elections, conditional on several conditions that we will announce later. Al-Sadr directed the protesters and representatives of the Sadrist bloc who resigned from the House of Representatives to “submit formal lawsuits to the Federal Court, through legal methods, and through the centralization of the committee supervising the sit-ins, to submit them to the competent judicial authorities.” Below is the tweet:
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The Federal Court considers a lawsuit for the invalidity of {dissolving Parliament for itself} Saturday 27 November 2021 252 Baghdad: Shaima Rashid The President of the Bar, Diaa Al-Saadi, announced that the Federal Supreme Court will consider on the first of next December the lawsuit filed by the Syndicate regarding the unconstitutionality of “dissolving Parliament for itself” after it was postponed, indicating that the Syndicate filed this lawsuit before holding the elections as a constitutional violation. Al-Saadi told “Al-Sabah”: “The appeal submitted by the Bar Association before the Federal Supreme Court turned to the unconstitutionality (dissolving the House of Representatives on the seventh of last October, and that the elections will take place on the tenth of the same month) that the postponed and conditional solution is to hold the elections on the same day. Certain violates the second paragraph of Articles (64 and 47) of the Iraqi constitution for the year 2005,” explaining that “the filing of this lawsuit by the Bar Association was prior to the holding of the last elections for the House of Representatives and not in the interest of any party, bloc or any other political party except the interest of the constitution.” He added that "the Federal Supreme Court is still under consideration in the case, which was postponed to the first of next December," noting that "the constitution is clear in the mechanisms (dissolving the House of Representatives) and Parliament has no right to set a day to dissolve itself and to set a date for holding elections, and this A clear violation of the constitution,” noting that “the motive behind the lawsuit is not in the interest of a party, a list, or a political party, but rather the application of the constitution in a way that correct".