Iraq’s top court rules to oust the speaker and a rival lawmaker from Parliament
Associated PressBAGHDAD — Iraq’s top court ruled Tuesday that the speaker and a rival lawmaker should be ousted from Parliament, following a high-profile feud between the two men. The Federal Supreme Court said in a statement it decided to terminate Speaker Mohammed al-Halbousi’s membership in Parliament along with that of lawmaker Laith al-Dulaimi. Under the country’s sectarian power-sharing system, the parliament speaker is always Sunni, the prime minister Shiite and the president Kurdish. I am surprised by the lack of respect for the Constitution.” He said that in his five years as speaker he had operated with integrity and “never discriminated between Sunnis and Shiites.” Following the ruling, Halbousi’s Takadum party announced that its representatives in the federal government — among them the deputy prime minister — would resign in protest, and that its members of Parliament would resign from parliamentary committees and boycott parliamentary sessions.
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