Baghdad The legal expert, Amir Al-Daami, confirmed: “The judiciary and the Federal Court do not have the authority to dissolve Parliament.”
He said in a statement to the National Iraqi News Agency (NINA): “It is not within the jurisdiction of the judiciary, even the Federal Court, to dissolve parliament.”
Al-Daami added: “The dissolution of Parliament is limited to Article 64 of the Constitution.”
Article 64 states: “First, the Council of Representatives is dissolved by an absolute majority of its members, at the request of one-third of its members, or a request from the Prime Minister and with the approval of the President of the Republic. The Council may not be dissolved during the period of questioning the Prime Minister.
Second: The President of the Republic, upon dissolving the House of Representatives, shall call for general elections in the country within a maximum period of sixty days from the date of the dissolution. In this case, the Council of Ministers is considered resigned and continues to run daily affairs.
The leader of the Sadrist movement, Muqtada al-Sadr, asked the judiciary, today, to dissolve Parliament in a period not exceeding the end of next week, and to call on the President of the Republic to set a date for early elections.
Source: National Iraqi News Agency