Shafaq News- Baghdad
The members of parliament arepreparing to collect signatures and submit a formal request to the president tonominate a candidate for prime minister if political blocs fail to reach an agreementby Saturday, Mahmoud al-Shammari, a member of the Services bloc in parliament,told Shafaq News on Thursday.
He added that the legislature hasthe authority to propose a candidate as the country’s highest legislative body,adding that continuation of the current situation, with a caretaker governmentand 10 ministries without ministers, “pushes us to intervene in the selectionof the next prime minister.”
Amer Al-Fayez, a senior figure in Iraq’s Coordination Framework (CF), told Shafaq News that the ongoing talks to select a new prime minister have led to “important understandings” to resolve disputes,, expecting a decision about this issue within hours.
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