Link to Article: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/30/iraq-mps-fail-for-third-time-to-elect-new-president
In this article Iraq fails to elect a new President for the third time in a row due to a lack of quorum ( less than 2/3 members present in parliament and 2/3 members are needed for a voting quorum ). The repeated failure to elect someone for the role can be traced back from the deep divide between Shia political groupings resulting in rival Muslim Shiite blocs in the assembly as the sessions become boycotted making a quorum impossible. Without scheduling a new date to meet, the assembly adjourned the session until further notice,” with the federal court giving Iraq a deadline of April 6th to select a new President. As of right now rivals Barham Saleh, of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), and Rebar Ahmed of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) are among the top selections of the many candidates. The Shia leader of one of the largest political blocs, Muqtada al-Sadr currently backs Ahmed for presidency and forms an unlikely alliance with a Sunni parties to form a coalition dubbed “Saving the Homeland”, totaling 155 seats of the 329 member legislature.
I think the only scenario which would further along the process of electing a president would be a major event that would require an immediate decision. With the way things are going I think blocs will continue to happen by Shia leader al-Sadr dragging out the possibility to a successful session into the foreseeable future. Currently the deadline has already expired greatly from the constitutions required timeline of having a President elected within 30 days after the meeting of the new Parliament. Since no repercussions have happened with surpassing the deadline thus far, I predict nothing will happen and this stalemate of having a quorum to vote on a President will continue for months. I think this will caused increased political unrest, and deepened schisms in the war- torn Country.
These events relate to the themes of electoral processes which have been newly introduced in the comparative government unit thus far. Unlike other credible legitimate electoral systems, raq has gone through a series of reform and newly introduced introduction laws after almost all elections after 2005 (mostly due to public pressure). This method of reform laws (most times more than once) is known as the normative approach as a system is observed and altered based on response.