Hundreds of Iraqis continued yesterday, besieging the oil field in Nasiriyah, south of Baghdad, which stopped production, while protests still paralyzed many cities in Iraq, and a parliamentarian filed a lawsuit against the President of the Republic, Barham Salih, on charges of "violating the constitution" and called on the Federal Court to withdraw The President hands and issues a state order to assign Speaker of Parliament Muhammad Al-Halbousi the task of assigning a Prime Minister, while the Iraqi President is scheduled to meet with 170 deputies who signed the specifications of the next Prime Minister, today, to discuss mechanisms to get out of the crisis, and to unify the visions of a non-controversial candidate who meets The aspirations and demands of the demonstrator In accordance with the law and under the umbrella of the Constitution.

Work in the Nasiriyah oil field stopped, for the second day in a row, yesterday, with the site still being besieged by demonstrators calling for employment opportunities, according to local oil sources, which is the first time that production has stopped in an oil field in Iraq since the start of unprecedented anti-government demonstrations.

A spokesman for the Iraqi Oil Ministry, Asim Jihad, said in an official statement, "The ministry temporarily halted production operations in the Nasiriyah field because the field staff was unable to reach their workplaces because of the road blocking by the demonstrators demanding appointment."

And Iraq is the fifth largest oil exporter in the world, and exports about 3.4 million barrels per day from the port of Basra in the south of the country, which depends almost entirely on oil revenues, which constitute 90% of its budget, and despite the vast oil wealth, one in five people in Iraq lives under Poverty line, and the youth unemployment rate is 25%, according to the World Bank.

Protests continued in Baghdad and the majority of the cities of southern Iraq to demand the change of the political class that has controlled the country's capabilities for 16 years, and protesters accuse them of "corruption" and subordination to Iran, and they demand the appointment of an independent prime minister.

In Diwaniyah, demonstrators again announced yesterday the general strike, in the context of ongoing protests aimed at pushing the authorities to respond to their demands, and in Najaf university students demonstrated to demand the dissolution of parliament and call for early elections.

To that, the deputy in the Iraqi parliament from the "Sadqoun" bloc, Uday Awad, filed a lawsuit against the President of the Republic, Barham Salih, on charges of "violating many of the provisions of the constitution", and called the Awad of the Federal Court, according to the lawsuit, to "withdraw the hand of President Barham Saleh and issue My state has ordered that Parliament Speaker Muhammad al-Halbousi be given the task of assigning a prime minister. ”

The head of the Parliamentary bloc, “Bayrak Al-Khair” bloc, MP Mohammed Al-Khaldi revealed a meeting that will be held today with the President of the Republic in Baghdad, with the 170 representatives who signed the attributes of the next prime minister, indicating that Saleh did not violate Article 76 of the constitution, and he told the Iraqi “Alsumaria” channel that “The first paragraph of Article 76 talked about assigning the President of the Republic to the candidate of the largest bloc in the first session of Parliament, and as long as the assignment took place in harmony between the Reform and Building blocs after that session, and the largest bloc was not named, then that paragraph became from the past”, noting that “paragraphs 3 and 5 From the same article, they talked about another situation that includes T. Cliff the President of the Republic to the candidate for prime minister without talking about the name of the largest bloc ».

Al-Khalidi added: “According to this legal view, the president of the republic did not violate the constitution, and the talk in this regard is far from reality.” He warned of the “danger of continuing to pressure the president of the republic to violate the constitution and pass a candidate of parties seeking to impose its vision away from seeing angry masses of demonstrators. ».

Al-Khaldi stressed that «the 170 signed representatives will meet the president of the republic to discuss mechanisms to get out of the crisis, and unify visions about a non-controversial candidate that meets the aspirations and demands of the masses in accordance with the law and under the umbrella of the constitution».

For his part, Iraqi President Barham Salih affirmed, respecting the will of the Iraqi people in reform and rejecting any foreign interference in internal politics, according to a statement by the Presidency of the Republic of Iraq.

- Hundreds continue

Surrounding the field of Nasiriyah

Oil south of Baghdad

To claim employment.