<p><a href="/en/afganistan/kabul" class="glossify-link">KABUL</a> or lower house of Parliament in its 10<sup>th</sup> session on Monday tasked another delegation to resolve the dispute over the speaker’s election after earlier panels failed to take final decision regarding the controversial vote.</p>
<p>On May 16, lawmakers Mir Rahman Rahmani, Mirwais Yasini, Kamal Naser Osuli and Omar Nasir contested for the speaker post.</p>
<p>However, none could bag enough votes to become speaker of the house and the ballot went to a second round, which was deferred to Sunday.</p>
<p>Mir Rahmani and Osuli, who received the highest numbers of votes on Thursday, were in the run for the slot in the second round of voting.</p>
<p>Atta Mohammad Dehqanpor, provisional speaker, said there were 247 lawmakers present in the house and a candidate was required to collect 124 votes to win the seat.</p>
<p>In the second round, Rahmani bagged 123 votes --- one vote short of the threshold --- and Osuli collected 55 votes. However, Dehqanpur declared Rahmani as winner, triggering a dispute among lawmakers.</p>
<p>After two days of the tussle, the lower house on last Wednesday assigned a 27-member delegation, including 10 members of an earlier delegation, to resolve the dispute.</p>
<p>Ghulam Hussain Naseri, a member of the delegation, on Wednesday said that 11 members of the team, who sought a decision on the matter by the lower house, were removed while 16 others made their decision about the issue.</p>
<p>Rahmani’s supporters said the house should openly take a decision regarding the controversial vote but Usouli’s supporters insisted on secret procedure to decide the fate of the controversial vote.</p>
<p>Today (Monday) the house picked another delegation to resolve the row. The delegation includes Iqbal Safi, Mirdad Najrabi, Habib Afghan, Khan Mohammad Wardak and Mohammad Raza Khoshk Watandost.</p>
<p>Some members of the delegation stressed the need for ending the ongoing controversy through talks while others demanded legal process to resolve the issue.</p>
<p>The delegation, however, announced that the issue of the controversial vote would be resolved tomorrow through open or secret process in the house.</p>
<p>nh/ma</p>
