Elections for the Presidency of the 'Deputies'.. Calm and Waiting for Blocs' Understandings

'The King calls the National Assembly to convene in its ordinary session on the first day of October of each year. If the said day is a public holiday, then on the first day following it that is not a public holiday. However, it is permissible for the King to postpone by a royal decree published in the Official Gazette the meeting of the National Assembly to a date specified in the royal decree, provided that the period of postponement does not exceed two months.'

The parliamentary scene witnesses dialogues between deputies about the elections for the presidency of the House of Representatives, the permanent bureau, and the legislative priorities for the third ordinary session of the National Assembly, and parliamentary data confirms that 'calm' dominates the atmosphere of the elections for the presidency of the deputies and that the dialogues about the elections are still in their beginnings.

The sources confirm that the deputies wishing to run for the presidency of the House of Representatives preferred to wait and not announce their candidacy while waiting for the dialogues between the parliamentary blocs.

The sources indicate that there is a general trend among four parliamentary blocs, namely 'Al-Mithaq, Initiative, Azim, and the Center and Reform Parties Bloc', to reach an agreement on the presidential elections.

The sources expect that the four blocs will agree on one candidate for the position of President of the House of Representatives.

The parliamentary sources say that what strengthens the idea of agreement between the parliamentary blocs is the calm that currently dominates the atmosphere of the elections for the presidency of the Council and the absence of parliamentary divisions and the noise that used to occur as the date of the presidential and permanent bureau elections approached.

The data indicates that the parliamentary blocs have not discussed the elections for the presidency of the deputies so far among their members, and it is expected that they will start in the coming period to discuss the elections of the permanent bureau.

The House of Representatives elects a president at the beginning of each ordinary session according to Article 69 of the Constitution, which states 'The House of Representatives elects a president at the beginning of the ordinary session for a period of one solar year and may be re-elected.'

The parliamentary sources say that the positions of the permanent offices, whether the first deputy president of the Council, the second deputy, or the assistants, are also linked to the understandings between the blocs regarding the position of the president.