By Xinhua
Baghdad : A small political bloc ended its boycott to the meetings of the Iraqi parliament on Saturday after some of its demands were met and would take part in the discussions of some important draft laws, a bloc spokesman said.
“We have decided to end our bloc’s boycott to the parliament meetings after some of our demands were met, and today we will attend the meeting of the parliament,” Mustafa al-Hiti, a member of the Iraqi Front for National Dialogue said in a news conference.
The Front, headed by the Sunni secular Salih al-Mutlak, said that its decision came after a request by the speaker Mahmoiud al-Mashhadani and other blocs.
Early in June, the bloc suspended its membership in the parliament and put five demands for the government and then the parliament to meet to return.
“Our demands for the government and the parliament have been met, among which the calling for Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to the parliament and answer questions about the security situation,”Hiti said, adding that Maliki is scheduled to visit the parliament on Monday.
He also said that his bloc wants to be present in the discussions of important laws such as the draft of the oil and gas law.
The Iraqi Front for the National Dialogue has only 11 seats in the Iraqi 275-seat parliament.