ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Tuesday's Iraqi parliament session was postponed until Thursday after heated arguments erupted in the hall of parliament and a number of MPs announced they were going on strike.
“The Iraqi parliament session is postponed until Thursday,” the head of the Kurdistan Islamic Union (KIU) in the Iraqi parliament, Musana Amin, told Rudaw on Tuesday.
This all came after Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi's new proposed list of nominees for a new government cabinet angered lawmakers who see it as a continuation of the quota system that Abadi's reforms were supposed to dismantle in the first place.
Abadi had drawn up a list of suggested cabinet nominees to the parliament on March 31 but they were rebuffed in favour of the political blocs putting forward their own nominees. After Abadi presented this new list to the parliaments speaker, Salim al-Juburi, the lawmakers denounced it.
"The people want the fall of the quotas!" many of them chanted.
“The Iraqi parliament session is postponed until Thursday,” the head of the Kurdistan Islamic Union (KIU) in the Iraqi parliament, Musana Amin, told Rudaw on Tuesday.
This all came after Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi's new proposed list of nominees for a new government cabinet angered lawmakers who see it as a continuation of the quota system that Abadi's reforms were supposed to dismantle in the first place.
Abadi had drawn up a list of suggested cabinet nominees to the parliament on March 31 but they were rebuffed in favour of the political blocs putting forward their own nominees. After Abadi presented this new list to the parliaments speaker, Salim al-Juburi, the lawmakers denounced it.
"The people want the fall of the quotas!" many of them chanted.
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