Iraq's federal court has dismissed a lawsuit calling for the dissolution of the country's legislature, following a request by followers of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr for the judiciary to get involved due to lawmakers' inability to form a government more than 10 months after elections.
The federal court rejected the case, filed by a group of lawyers that included Sadrists, saying the courts lack the authority to interfere in the legislative or executive processes. While the judiciary stressed there was no constitutional basis for such a decision, it encouraged the parliamentarians to carry out their constitutional duties by either forming the government or dissolving parliament.
