Baghdad: The inability of Iraq's parliament to agree on a new government in its first session was a "regrettable failure", Iraq's top Shi'ite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, said in a Friday sermon delivered by his aide.
"Last Tuesday the first session of parliament convened. People were optimistic that this would be a good start for this council in its commitment to the constitutional and legal texts," his aide, Ahmed al-Safi, said in the sermon.
"But what happened afterwards, in that the speaker and his deputies were not elected before the session finished, was a regrettable failure."
Sistani also reiterated his call that the new government should have "broad national acceptance".
"Last Tuesday the first session of parliament convened. People were optimistic that this would be a good start for this council in its commitment to the constitutional and legal texts," his aide, Ahmed al-Safi, said in the sermon.
"But what happened afterwards, in that the speaker and his deputies were not elected before the session finished, was a regrettable failure."
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