Baghdad – Mawazine News , Saturday, a political source said that a number of candidates for the post of President of the Republic had been excluded. In an interview with Mawazine News, the source said, “The House of Representatives held a meeting headed by the first deputy speaker, Hakim Al-Zamili, and discussed the biographies of 26 candidates for the post of President of the Republic.” He added, “A number of candidates for the position were excluded, for reasons related to judicial restrictions and the Integrity Commission.” Ended
{Politics: Al Furat News} Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi discussed today, Saturday, with the Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations in Iraq, Jenin Plaschaert, the overall political and security situation and its developments.
The government statement, which {Euphrates News} received a copy of, stated: “During the meeting, they discussed the overall political and security situation and its developments, as well as the progress of cooperation and coordination between Iraq and the United Nations, and ways to support the programs undertaken by the international organization in Iraq.”
During the meeting, Al-Kazemi reiterated, “Iraq’s keenness to consolidate its regional and international relations in a manner that ensures the strengthening of security and stability in Iraq and the region, and the establishment of the causes of sustainable development for the benefit of the Iraqi people and the brotherly and friendly peace-loving peoples.”
For her part, Plasschaert affirmed “the position of the international community in support of Iraq regarding the current challenges, and the importance of pursuing dialogue as a way to resolve differences.”
Shafaq News/ The head of the Iranian Trade Development Organization announced on Saturday that the Iraqi Trade Bank, TBI, has released the frozen Iranian assets it has.
And the Iranian “Fars” news agency reported that this action came based on the message sent by the head of the Iranian Trade Development Organization to a number of assistants of the Ministry of Industry, Mines, Trade and Agricultural Jihad, about the release of frozen Iranian stocks.
She explained that “the official in charge of the Food and Pharmaceutical Industries Office at the Ministry of Industry, Al-Wondi, sent a letter to the Federation of Food, Pharmaceutical and Health Industries in the country, to submit lists of the proposed materials for import immediately, based on the TBI’s release of frozen Iranian stocks.”
Shafaq News/ The First Deputy Speaker of the Iraqi Parliament, Hakim Al-Zamili, announced on Saturday that an expanded meeting will be held to check the names of the candidates for the presidency, stressing the adoption of “data, provisions and restrictions imposed on each candidate away from all external or internal tendencies, trends or influences.”
Al-Zamili’s office said in a statement issued today, and received by Shafak News Agency, that the latter chaired, today, the expanded meeting to check the names of the candidates for the presidency, which is to be announced two days from now, provided that the vote on the presidential candidate will be officially held during the second session of the fifth session. Parliament on Monday, February 7, 2022 next week.
He explained that during the meeting, which was held in the parliament building, in the presence of the Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, the Chairman of the Integrity Commission, the Vice-President of the Accountability and Justice Commission, the Senior Undersecretary of the Ministry of Interior and members of the Diwaniyah Order, all 26 candidates for the position of President of the Republic, in terms of restrictions, were discussed and audited. and their position on accountability, justice, academic degrees, and their integrity.
Al-Zamili stressed the need to adopt documents, certificates and resumes in a professional and transparent manner, and to remove any kind of political pressure that may be exerted on the relevant authorities to prevent them from performing the duties assigned to them, stressing that everyone has placed their full confidence in these authorities by applying professional standards to all candidates on the Both and in a manner different from what was in place in the past, confirming that the House of Representatives approved all mechanisms, procedures, statements, provisions, and restrictions imposed on each candidate away from all tendencies, trends, desires, or external or internal influences.
Al-Zamili noted that the charges against the candidates or everything that is raised on social media does not concern us as much as we rely exclusively on the final judicial decisions against all candidates.