Iraq's parliament convenes again on Monday
Iraq, Politics, 3/26/2005

Shiite negotiations stressed that the list of the United Iraqi Coalition list which is supported by Ayatullah Ali al-Seistani and the Kurdish list agreed in principle to convene the next session of the Iraqi National Assembly ( parliament ) next Monday in order to choose a speaker for the parliament and two of his deputies and the presidential council which is composed of the President of the republic and two of his deputies.

Mariam Taleb al-Rayes said that the post of the speaker of the National Assembly will be occupied one Sunni aided by two deputies one is Shiite and the other is Kurdish, noting that two names were nominated to assume the post of the speaker. One of them is Ghazi Elyawer and Sheikh Fawaz al-Jarba and two Shiite names for the post of deputy chairman for the society, one of them will be chosen; they are Hussein al-Shahrastani and Hassan al-Rubei'e, and the Kurds are to choose their candidate to assume the post of the second deputy for the speaker of the council.

She indicated that three Shiite names were nominated to assume the post of the Vice President. They are Adel Abdul Mahdi, from the Higher Council For The Islamic Revolution in Iraq, and Ahmad Chalabi, the leader of the Iraqi national Congress Party, and Nadim al-Jabiri of al-Fadila party, and four Sunni names to assume the post of the Second Deputy of the President. They are Hussein al-Jabbouri, Ghazi al-Yawer, Mudar Shawkat al-Sharif Ali Bin al-Hussein, the patronage of the constitutional monarchy.

She stressed that the Kurdish leader Jalal al-Talibani, as President Of The Republic, will have two deputies, one Shiite and another is Sunni, noting that the Shiite list will be held on Saturday, today, a meeting for voting over the names of candidates to the posts set for them.

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