The Iraqi House of Representatives held its sixteenth session on Thursday, 31/10/2024, in the presence of 271 deputies, headed by Mr. Mohsen Al-Mandalawi, Acting Speaker of the House of Representatives, and it was allocated to elect the Speaker of the House.
MP Salem Al-Issawi, MP Dr. Mahmoud Al-Mashhadani, MP Talal Al-Zobaie and MP Amer Abdul-Jabbar were nominated to occupy the position of Speaker of the House.
The election process took place by two rounds, the first round was the results of which were that MP Dr. Mahmoud Al-Mashhadani obtained 153 votes, MP Salem Al-Issawi obtained 95 votes, MP Amer Abdul-Jabbar obtained 9 votes, while the number of invalid votes reached 14 votes, and thus according to the rules of procedure, none of the candidates obtained the majority, which called for the House to hold a second round in which the highest candidates participated in the votes, namely (MP Dr. Mahmoud Al-Mashhadani / MP Salem Al-Issawi) and after counting the votes, MP Dr. Mahmoud got Al-Mashhadani received 182 votes, MP Salem Al-Issawi got 42 votes, MP Amer Abdul-Jabbar got 8 votes, while the number of invalid papers reached 39 votes, and thus MP Dr. Mahmoud Al-Mashhadani will be Speaker of the House for the remainder of the life of the session
