The Iraqi coordination framework put forward - in an official statement - an initiative that it said aims to get out of the political blockage in the country that prevents the selection of a new president and a new government.
The initiative came after the failure of the Iraqi parliament last Monday to hold a session to choose a new president for the country.
The framework (combining the Shiite political forces in Iraq with the exception of the Sadrist movement) explained that the initiative consists of 3 points, foremost of which was the call for the political forces to start a new phase of dialogue that achieves a real partnership in managing the country.
He added - in his statement - that he is extending a hand to the political forces concerned with forming the most numerous parliamentary bloc, especially the Sadrist bloc, and the political entities and independent parliamentary personalities to sit down and negotiate the formation of the most numerous bloc.
He concluded the initiative by emphasizing the need for the largest parliamentary bloc to agree on the criteria for choosing a strong prime minister who is able to cross the stage.
The Iraqi parliament decided to reopen the door for candidacy for the presidency, after the parliament failed last Monday to hold its scheduled session to vote to choose a president for the republic due to the lack of a quorum as a result of the boycott of many prominent political blocs.
In order to hold the parliamentary session, a quorum must be present, that is, the presence of 165 deputies (half + 1). The election of the president of the country requires two-thirds of the total number of deputies in Parliament of 329;
That is 220 deputies.
The failure of the session comes a day after the Federal Supreme Court (the highest judicial authority in the country) issued an order to stop the procedures for the candidacy of Hoshyar Zebari, the candidate of the Kurdistan Democratic Party led by Massoud Barzani for the post of President of the Republic.
The court's decision stated that the procedures for Zebari's candidacy were suspended until he resolved a lawsuit filed by 4 deputies "against the legitimacy of his candidacy for the post of President of the Republic."
Commenting on the court's decision, Zebari - in a tweet via Twitter - expressed his respect for the decision, indicating that he had fulfilled the conditions for candidacy.
In 2018, an Iraqi court issued a request for Zebari to appear before it against the backdrop of his dismissal by Parliament in 2016 on charges related to administrative and financial corruption during his tenure as Foreign Minister.
Last Friday, the leader of the Sadrist bloc, Muqtada al-Sadr, called on his political alliance in Parliament not to vote for Zebari, if he did not meet the conditions.
Al-Sadr said - in a tweet to him on Twitter - that if the ally Kurdistan Democratic Party's candidate for the presidency of the republic does not meet the conditions, I call on the Islah representatives (the Sadrist bloc) not to vote for him.
"We are advocates of reform, not advocates of authority and rule," he added.
Without specifying the conditions that must be met by the candidate for the presidency.
According to the political custom that has been followed since the first parliamentary elections held in the country in 2005, the position of the President of the Republic belongs to the Kurdish component, the presidency of parliament is for the Sunnis, and the leadership of the government belongs to the Shiites.
And the presidency is mostly from the share of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, as the late Jalal Talabani assumed it over two terms, then Fuad Masum, then the current president.
The Sadrist bloc topped the elections held on the tenth of last October, with 73 seats, followed by the "Progress" coalition led by Muhammad al-Halbousi with 37, the "State of Law" coalition led by Nuri al-Maliki with 33, and then the "Kurdistan Democratic Party" led by Massoud Barzani with 31.