Mohamed al-Halbousi

Mohammed Rikan Hadid al-Halbousi (; born 4 January 1981 ) is an Iraqi politician and engineer who served as Speaker of the Council of Representatives from 2018 to 2023. The leader of the Progress Party since 2019, he previously served as governor of Al Anbar Governorate from 2017 to 2018. Al-Halbousi represented Al Anbar in parliament from 2014 until his dismissal in 2023.

Speaker of the Council of Representatives Al-Halbousi meets with U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo in Baghdad, Iraq on January 9, 2019. In September 2018, Halbousi was elected as the speaker of the Council of Representatives making him the 11th to serve that position and the 6th since the 2003 U.S. invasion. He won 169 votes in a secret ballot conducted at the session of the 329-seat assembly.

On 9 January 2022, Halbousi was elected as the speaker of Council of Representatives for a second term, defeating Mahmoud al-Mashhadani, a former speaker of parliament in 2006. He received 200 votes from the 329-seat parliament.

On 14 November 2023, the Federal Supreme Court of Iraq ordered Halbousi's dismissal as both speaker and member of parliament along with fellow legislator Laith al-Dulaimi, who had sued Halbousi claiming that he had forged Dulaimi's signature on a resignation letter, which Halbousi denied.