PM:05:52:09/01/2022
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SULAIMANI — The opening 2022 session of the Iraqi
Parliament was adjourned on Sunday (January 9) after interim speaker Mahmoud
al-Mashhadani collapsed during a scuffle that broke out between MPs from the Sadrist
Movement and the Coordination Framework.
Mashhadani was taken away by ambulance. The interim
speaker of parliament is by law the eldest of the MPs. The vote to decide the
position for speaker of parliament is underway with Mohammed al-Halbousi and
Mahmoud al-Mashhadani both in the running.
(NRT Digital Media)