Shafaq News- Baghdad
The Reconstruction and Development Coalition (RDC), led bycaretaker Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani, will hold five ministerialposts in Iraq’s upcoming government, Ahmed Al-Dulfi, a lawmaker from thecoalition, revealed to Shafaq News on Monday.
He said the ministries are Oil, Labor and Social Affairs,Industry and Minerals, adding that negotiations over other portfolios areongoing.
“Al-Sudani will remain the political head of the coalitionand will not serve as a minister in the new government,” Al-Dulfi stated.
The Coordination Framework, the largest bloc holding about162 of parliament’s 329 seats, granted the Iraqi Prime Minister-designate, AliAl-Zaidi, broader authority in selecting his cabinet following his nomination.
According to sources, the new cabinet will consist of 22ministries, including 12 for the Shiite Coordination Framework, six for Sunniblocs, and four for Kurdish parties.
Cabinet positions in Iraq are typically distributed throughpolitical agreements under the muhasasa system, a post-2003 power-sharingarrangement among the country’s major political and ethnic blocs.