Parliament extends legislative term by 30 days and four MPs take oath
Parliament voted to extend the legislative term from 1 November until 1 December. Four members of the Council took the constitutional oath, while a vote on an amendment to the Lawyers' Union law was postponed.
The Iraqi Council of Representatives on Sunday voted to extend the legislative term by 33 days, with the extension beginning on 1 November and ending on 1 December.
The Council's media office said in a statement that four MPs took the constitutional oath as members of the Council.
The statement listed the names of the MPs who took the oath as follows: Ali Muhammad Ahmad al-Fayli, Hussein Ahmed Hadi al-Maliki, Wasfi Asi Hussein al-Ubaidi, and Riyadh Younis Jassim al-Humaidawi.
The statement added that Parliament postponed the vote on the proposed third amendment to the Lawyers' Union Law No. (137) of 1981 to future sessions.
