Shafaq News- Baghdad
Iraq’s Coordination Framework intensified negotiations overgovernment formation with a meeting at the residence of State of Law Coalitionleader Nouri Al-Maliki, following a gathering on selecting a prime ministerial candidate,a political source told Shafaq News on Saturday.
The meeting brought together Al-Maliki, the senior CF figureAmer Al-Fayez, the leader of the Foundation (Al-Asas) bloc Mohsen Al-Mandalawi,and Secretary-General of Kataib SayyidAl-Shuhada Abu AlaaAl-Walaei.
The source pointed out that “a proposal will be presented atApril 25 meeting to move forward with Basim Al-Badri as prime minister, inexchange for granting the Reconstruction and Development Coalition (Al-Ima'arwal-Tanmiya), led by caretaker PM Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani, five ministerialportfolios, including a deputy PM post and a sovereign ministry.” Preliminaryunderstandings, he added, include avoiding the reopening of files related toprevious governments and improving Iraq’s relations with regional countries, “aspart of efforts to ease internal and external tensions as the new governmenttakes shape.”
The source noted that participants did not support the newlyproposed candidates raised during Friday’s meeting.
These developments follow a Coordination Framework meetingon Friday that ended without agreement on a prime ministerial candidate.
