On Tuesday, Mustafa Al-Kazemi, the departing prime minister of Iraq, urged the political parties to back Muhammad Shi’a Al-Sudani and grant him the authority to select his cabinet.
Hassan Nazim, a spokesperson for the Council of Ministers and the Minister of Culture, stated at a press conference that Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi “confirmed in today’s session to the Council of Ministers his support for the President of the Republic, Abdul Latif Rashid, and the Prime Minister-designate Muhammad Shi’a Al-Sudani, and called on the political forces to grant the taxpayer freedom to choose his work team.” According to what the Iraqi News Agency reported (conscious).
The state administration coalition in Iraq announced today that it plans to call a session of the House of Representatives for voting on the new government in all of its members on Saturday.
At the meeting yesterday, the coalition—which also consists of the Sovereignty Alliance, the Kurdistan Democratic Party, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, and the determination—discussed the most recent political developments in the nation, including the necessity of hastening the formation of the government.
The Sudanese promised to provide a strong government last Thursday after Abdul Latif Rashid, the President of the Republic, gave him that responsibility.
While the leader of the Sadrist movement, Muqtada al -Sadr, launched a sharp criticism against him, considering that the Sudanese began to constitute a “militia coalition government”.
On the 15th of this month, he issued a warning against any of his supporters joining the coalition government that the coordination framework—the enemy—is supporting.
It is noteworthy that on October 13, Abdul Latif Rashid was elected president of the nation by the parliament, ending months of delays, disputes, and resignations from the Sadr movement.
Since last year, Iraq has experienced a political crisis between the Sadrist movement and the “coordination framework,” which consists of the Nuri al-Maliki-led State of Law coalition, the Al-Fateh alliance, and other factions that support Iran. As a result, last Thursday’s elections for the republic’s president and formation of the government were postponed.
As early as the start of the Sadrist movement to dissolve the House of Representatives and hold early legislative elections in order to walk the country on the path of reforms in light of its opponents’ rejection of this trend and their insistence on forming a government with their candidate and electing a preside, the conflict has become more severe since July 2022 with the two sides of the most prominent dispute to the street and their sit-in in central Baghdad.
While 30 people died in violent skirmishes between the two sides in central Baghdad on August 29, 2022, the war had now become more prone to serious escalation.
A political split between the Sadrist movement and the “coordination framework” (which consists of the Nuri al-Maliki-led State of Law coalition, the Al-Fateh alliance, and other Iranian-aligned factions) has existed in Iraq since last year. This split prevented last Thursday’s elections for the republic’s president and the formation of a government.
Al-Kazemi urges allowing Sudanese people the freedom to form the Iraqi government.
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