IAF stresses its right to fill speaker’s chair

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: Spokesperson of the Iraqi Accordance Front (IAF) Sunni parliamentary bloc on Wednesday said that the meeting that embraced the IAF’s leaders stressed the Front’s right to fill the position of the council of representatives’ speaker, according to a release that was posted on the internet. “Nominations will be according to the mechanisms that were employed to select former speaker, Mahmoud al-Mashahadani,” Saleem al-Jabbori said in the release that was received by IraqiNews.com news agency. “The candidate should be accepted by other political blocs, and should be able to improve the parliamentary performance,” he added. MH (P)/SR 1