2025-08-03

  The Council of Representatives held its third session of the second legislative term for the fourth legislative year of the fifth electoral cycle, chaired by Dr. Mahmoud al-Mashhadani, the Speaker of the Council, on Sunday, August 3, 2025. The session was attended by 166 deputies and included the following:

-Mr. Ammar Kadhim al-Shibli took the constitutional oath as a replacement for MP Atwan al-Atwani.

-The vote on the proposed Second Amendment to the Law of the Political Prisoners Foundation No. (4) of 2006, submitted by the Martyrs, Victims, and Political Prisoners Committee, was postponed to address legal loopholes in the law.

-The first reading of the draft law for the University of Iraq for Security Sciences, submitted by the Security and Defense Committee, was initiated.

-The second reading of the draft First Amendment to the Civil Defense Law No. (44) of 2013, submitted by the Security and Defense and Legal Committees, was held.

-The second reading of the draft law regulating the rights of the victims of Ibn al-Khatib Hospital, al-Naqaa Center, and al-Hamdaniya incident, submitted by the Martyrs, Victims, and Political Prisoners Committee and the Health and Environment Committee, was held.

-The second reading of the proposed law for the protection and improvement of the environment, submitted by the Health and Environment Committee, was held.