Agreement reached on 10 ministries; Iraqi parliament to vote Thursday on completing al-Zidi’s government.
The Iraqi parliament intends to hold its session next Thursday afternoon to vote on completing the cabinet of Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi, according to MP Thaer al-Kaabi of the National Approach bloc.
Al-Kaabi told Shafaq News Agency that there are 9 vacant ministries in the government, noting that separating the Ministry of Culture from the Ministry of Tourism, and adding the Ministries of Artificial Intelligence and State, raised the number of ministries covered by the understandings to 12 ministries.
He added that the current political agreement includes the nomination of candidates for 10 out of 12 ministries, while the nomination of candidates for the Ministries of Culture and State, which became the share of the Turkmen component, has not been decided.
According to Al-Kaabi, there is a political agreement to nominate people for the positions of deputy prime ministers, while there is no agreement regarding the nomination of people for the positions of vice presidents of the republic.
An informed political source reported yesterday, Monday, that the political blocs and Al-Zaydi agreed to pass the cabinet next Thursday.
According to the source who spoke to Shafaq News Agency, the leaders of the Coordination Framework agreed with the Prime Minister and the rest of the political blocs on Monday evening to hold a parliamentary session next Thursday to vote on completing the cabinet. The agreement also included voting on the Prime Minister having four deputies.
Shafaq.com