Iraq's parliament postponed its session on Saturday night to approve a new election bill until a quorum is reached, while protesters threatened escalation if lawmakers go ahead with voting on the bill, which critics say would allow large blocs to dominate parliament.

The Iraqi News Agency said the council postponed the session until early Sunday morning.

On Monday, the Iraqi parliament postponed its session to Saturday to complete the vote on the new draft election law, which was read twice under the dome of the parliament in preparation for a vote.

The German news agency dpa said that about 200 demonstrators gathered in front of the walls of the Iraqi parliament near the Green Zone, chanting slogans denouncing the holding of a session to complete the adoption of the law on the upcoming parliamentary elections according to the "Saint Lego" system, a law that was canceled due to popular pressure during the "October 2019 protests" and returned to the fore again.

The demonstrators threatened to escalate their protests and hold a permanent sit-in at the Green Zone if parliament went ahead with the vote. Security forces have imposed tight security measures around Parliament.

While the current parliamentary majority is seeking to pass the new electoral bill, independents and emerging parties are demanding a return to the previous law under which the last parliamentary elections were held in 2021 under the multi-district system and not rely on the single-district system according to the Saint Lego system.