ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Iraq’s incoming parliament is scheduled to hold its first session on December 29, according to a decree issued Tuesday by the country’s president. The session will mark the first convening of the new legislature since Iraq held its key parliamentary elections in mid-November.
In a statement, the Iraqi presidency said President Abdul Latif Rashid issued a decree stipulating that “the elected Council of Representatives, in its sixth term, shall convene on Monday, December 29.”
The decree “takes effect from the date of its issuance and publication in the Official Gazette of Iraq (al-Waqa’i al-Iraqiya),” the statement added,
Iraq held early legislative elections on November 9, followed by general voting on November 11. Final results were announced in mid-November.
The country’s top judicial authority, the Federal Supreme Court, on Sunday ratified the final results of the vote, saying the elections “met all constitutional and legal requirements.