BAGDAD (Reuters) – The Iraqi Federal Supreme Court decided on Tuesday to end the term of parliament speaker Mohammad al-Halbousi, Iraq’s most powerful Sunni Muslim politician, state media reported.
The decision was related to a case brought against Halbousi this year, the report added without going into detail.
Halbousi was serving his second term as speaker, a post he first took in 2018 and which, under Iraq’s sectarian political system instituted after the 2003 U.S. invasion, is the highest post reserved for a Sunni Muslim.
Officials in Halbousi’s office could not immediately be reached for comment.
The court’s ruling are final and not subject to appeal.
(Reporting by Timour Azhari; Editing by Andrew Heavens)
