Muhammad Shi’a Al-Sudani, the new president, was given the task of forming the Iraqi government today, Thursday, following Abdul Latif Rashid’s election as the country’s president by the Iraqi parliament.
The caretaker administration welcomed Mustafa Al-Kazemi for being chosen by the Sudanese to create the new government in turn.
Al-Kazemi urged the political groups to work with the Sudanese Shi’a in establishing the Iraqi administration.
The French embassy in Iraq made the first international statement, calling for the establishment of a government that satisfies the needs of the populace and expressing its willingness to cooperate with the Prime Minister-designate Muhammad Shi’a Al-Sudani.
After the quorum of the House of Representatives session, which was held earlier today, was reached, Rashid was chosen as the next leader of Iraq (269 deputies).
While about 277 deputies voted through the secret ballot in the first round, to start later the screening process and promise, amid a slight progress of Rashid to the current President Barham Saleh (the two belong to the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, knowing that the latter supports Saleh), in the first round.
What followed caused a second round of voting, which in turn revealed Abdel-Latif, who received 162 votes to 99 for and 8 against.
It is noteworthy that Iraq has experienced a raging political crisis between the Muqtada al-Sadr-led Sadrist movement and the “coordination framework” (which includes the Nuri Mali-led State of Law Coalition, the Al-Fateh Alliance, and other factions loyal to Iran), which has been resolved without the Republic of Iraq being elected or a government being established as of today.
Since July 2022, when the two sides of the most notable argument took their sit-in to the streets of Baghdad, the conflict has grown more serious.
In order to move the nation toward reforms in light of its opponents’ rejection of this trend and their insistence on the formation of a government by their candidate and the election of a president before any new elections, the Sadrist movement began with the goal of dissolving the House of Representatives and holding early legislative elections.
A severe danger of escalation was made possible by the violent battles between the two sides in central Baghdad on August 29, 2022, which resulted in the deaths of 30 people.
The expense of forming the government for the Sudanese is the new president of Iraq.
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