The renewed Iraqi parliament held Sunday its first session in the capital Baghdad, almost three months after legislative polls.
The parliament, Anadolu news agency reported citing Iraqi state-run news agency INA, is due to elect a speaker and two deputies during Sunday’s meeting. Lawmakers will later elect a new president who will task the largest bloc with forming the government.
The session, the agency added, was chaired by MP Mahmoud al-Mashhadani, 74, the oldest member of parliament. Millions of Iraqi went to polls on October 10 to renew the parliament. Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr’s bloc came first through the process after winning with 73 seats in the 329-member house.
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