Reason Iraqi Parliament Boycotted Presidential Election
2 min readFeb 10, 2022
News stories around the globe are talking about how Iraq is going backwards due to parliament's inability to elect a president for the country
First of all, here's what happened:
On Monday, February 7, 2022, only 58 lawmakers of parliament showed up out of 329 to vote for Iraq’s new president. A two-thirds quorum of the legislature’s 329…