Baghdad The Parliamentary Legal Committee has settled the controversy over the interrogation requests prepared by the House of Representatives, noting that the absence of a quorum for the presence of the representatives prevents holding sessions and proceeding with those requests.

Member of the committee, Representative Bahar Mahmoud, stated, in a statement to the National Iraqi News Agency (NINA), that “all the requests for interrogation and hosting that are entrusted to the Presidency of Parliament and the concerned parliamentary committees, have taken their legal path and legislative procedures according to the internal system of the House of Representatives, but the lack of a quorum is what hinders the session of the Parliament to be held.

She added that “there is no quorum guaranteeing the holding of the sessions, and we do not know whether this is intentional or an emergency or a normal situation in conjunction with the elections date next October,” noting that “some MPs who are not candidates for the new session do not attend the parliament, contrary to their legal obligation to perform their parliamentary work until the end of the mandate of the legislative session, and some of the nominated representatives were busy with electoral campaigns.”

She explained that ” the six months preceding the date of the elections in the previous legislative sessions were witnessing a repetition of the same pattern by not achieving a quorum and holding sessions as in the current session.”

Source: National Iraqi News Agency