The speaker of Iraq’s parliament has said the legislature’s term will end on Saturday unless lawmakers vote to extend it until after a recount of May’s election votes is complete. Salim al-Jabouri also said, during a news conference on Thursday, that a manual recount of votes in the national election last month will begin next week. The outgoing parliament this month passed a law mandating a nationwide manual recount of votes. However, the panel of judges now in charge of the recount said it would only be conducted for problematic ballots, Reuters reported.