Prime Minister Muhammad al-Sudani promised to amend the election law within three months and hold early parliamentary elections within a year after receiving the vote of confidence from the Iraqi parliament on Thursday.
A promise that many observers and knowledgeable sources saw as an effort to sour relations with Muqtada al-Sadr, the head of the Sadrist movement, who was crucial last week in what he called the “militia government.”
According to these sources, the Sudanese attempted to place Al-Sadr in this situation, as reported by the daily “Al-Sharq Al-Awsat.”
But whether the new Prime Minister is trying to get closer to the chest or not, many people agree that he has challenging tasks ahead of him, especially after he emerged from the political gridlock that prevented spending on economic reform and infrastructure projects for an entire year without a budget for 2022.
As a result of the high price of crude and the failure of significant wars after the defeat of ISIS five years ago, he made the shortage of services and jobs worse even though Baghdad had reached a record oil production.
In light of this, Farhad Aladdin, the director of the political research organisation Iraqi Consultative Council, said that the incoming administration would confront several challenging obstacles.
According to Reuters, he did say that she had offered a very ambitious plan that, if put into action, might help things get back on track.
One of the most challenging issues facing the Sudanese is probably fighting corruption, rebuilding the economy, enhancing the country’s degrading public services, reducing poverty, and reducing the high unemployment rate.
The new prime minister had previously emphasized that corruption is more dangerous than the Korona pandemic, considering that it is the reason for many economic problems, weakening the state’s authority, spreading poverty, unemployment and weak public services.
It is interesting that Iraq is ranked 157th on the Transparency International Index for “corruption perceptions” out of 180 nations.
However, this scourge is frequently covered and protected by militias, political parties, and occasionally state officials. The best example of this is likely the recent judicial case involving the theft of tax insurance funds from the Rafidain Government Bank, which exemplified the tenacity of the century.
Following the expression of confidence, the Sudanese flirts with the chest and the formidable obstacles that lie ahead.
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