Sadiqun holds the coordination framework responsible for the delay in forming the government: The Sudanese are the most likely to succeed.
On Wednesday, MP Mohammed Al-Baldawi, from the Sadiqun parliamentary bloc, held the coordination framework responsible for the delay in forming the new government, while indicating that outgoing Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani is currently the most likely candidate.
Al-Baldawi told Shafaq News Agency that “linking the formation of the new Iraqi government to the end of the regional war is incorrect,” stressing the need to “form the government under these circumstances, which require a sincere national government capable of preserving the security and sovereignty of Iraq.”
He added that “the delay in forming the government is not in anyone’s interest, nor is it in the interest of the Iraqi political forces,” indicating that “Iraq needs a unified and sincere position, and the coordinating framework bears responsibility for the delay in its formation.”
According to Al-Baldawi, the obstacles have been overcome, and all that remains is to elect the president and assign the candidate of the Coordination Framework to form the next government, noting that there are objections to the head of the State of Law Coalition, Nouri al-Maliki.
He continued, saying that “there are a number of candidates, and the criteria must be applied to them,” adding that “the Sudanese candidate is the most likely to win at the moment.”
It is worth noting that a source within the coordinating framework that brings together the ruling Shiite political forces in Iraq told Shafaq News Agency last Monday that the coalition leadership agreed to postpone deciding on a prime ministerial candidate until after the end of the ongoing regional war between the United States and Israel against Iran.
The Coordination Framework had officially nominated Maliki on January 24, a move that opened the door to negotiations to form the new government, but the process faltered as disagreements continued over the election of the President of the Republic, the constitutional entitlement that precedes assigning the candidate of the largest bloc to form the government.
However, al-Maliki’s nomination was met with rejection from some Sunni forces, as well as parties within the Shiite bloc itself, in addition to strong rejection from the American administration, whose president, Donald Trump, threatened at the time that Washington would stop its aid to Iraq if al-Maliki assumed the premiership.
Shafaq.com