SULAIMANI (ESTA) — Iraqi President Barham Salih on Thursday convened the Council of Representatives for January 9, according to a decree issued by the president.
Lawmakers will elect a parliamentary speaker and two deputies in their first session.
They will later elect a new president who will task the leader of the largest bloc to form a government as prime minister.
The presidential decree came a few days after Iraq’s federal court ratified results of the October parliamentary election and rejected a motion lodged by al-Fateh Alliance, led by Amiri, derailing their attempt to overturn a vote in which they performed poorly.
The alliance said the electronic voting system had failed to recognize the finger print identification of many votes.
Following the approval, Iraqi and Kurdish parties welcomed the decision.
The Sadrist Movement, led by Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, won nearly a fifth of the seats – 73 out of the assembly’s total 329.
The Taqqadum Party, which draws support from minority Sunni Muslims, won 37 seats, according to the final results.
Former Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s State of Law Alliance won 33 seats, the results showed. A distant second with 17 seats was the al-Fateh Alliance, the political arm of Hashid al-Shaabi.
