{"id":52386,"date":"2024-05-19T15:54:19","date_gmt":"2024-05-19T05:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=52386"},"modified":"2024-05-19T15:54:19","modified_gmt":"2024-05-19T05:54:19","slug":"iraq-parliament-fails-to-elect-a-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=52386","title":{"rendered":"Iraq parliament fails to elect a speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Iraq&#8217;s lawmakers failed to elect a speaker on Saturday as neither of the two main candidates secured a majority during a tense session of parliament.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is the latest in a series of failed attempts to replace the former head of parliament who was dismissed in November, with political bickering and<br \/>\ndivisions between key Sunni parties derailing every attempt so far.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday&#8217;s vote was the closest yet to selecting a new head of the 329-member parliament, with 311 lawmakers showing up for the session and the leading candidate falling just seven votes short.<\/p>\n<p>The parliament&#8217;s media office announced that 137 lawmakers chose Mahmoud al-Mashhadani, the oldest MP, while 158 picked Salem al-Issawi.<\/p>\n<p>However, candidates require at least 165 votes to win.<\/p>\n<p>Many lawmakers did not return for a second attempt on Saturday, with local media sharing videos of a brief brawl between MPs and reporting that at least one of them was injured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iraq&#8217;s lawmakers failed to elect a speaker on Saturday as neither of the two main candidates secured a majority during a tense session of parliament. It is the latest in a series of failed attempts to replace the former head of parliament who was dismissed in November, with political bickering and divisions between key Sunni [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1525],"class_list":["post-52386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-iraq-parliament-fails-to-elect-a-speaker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}