2025-07-12

 the Council of Representatives held its first session of the second legislative term for the fourth legislative year of the fifth electoral cycle on Saturday, July 13, 2025. The session, chaired by Speaker of the Council, Mahmoud al-Mashhadani, was attended by 175 deputies and included the following:

-Mr. Qastal Abu Talib Dhahir took the constitutional oath as a replacement for former MP Waleed al-Sahlani to fill a seat in the Council of Representatives.

-Voting on the proposed law for the Iraqi Programmers Syndicate, submitted by the Labor and Civil Society Organizations Committee, and the Legal Committee.

-Second reading of the proposed law for the First Amendment to the Law of the National Authority for Nuclear, Radiation, Chemical, and Biological Control No. (1) of 2024, submitted by the Health and Environment Committee.

-Second reading of the proposed law for the Third Amendment to the Law on Compensation for Victims Who Lost Parts of Their Bodies Due to the Practices of the Former Regime No. (5) of 2009, submitted by the Martyrs, Victims, and Political Prisoners Committee.

-Second reading of the draft law for the Accession of the Republic of Iraq to the Amendment to the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material, submitted by the Foreign Relations Committee and the Health and Environment Committee