Al-Kadhimi, the third figure to be assigned by Iraqi President Barham Salih, to form a government on the 9th of current April in 30 days, after his predecessors Adnan al-Zurfi and Muhammad Tawfiq Allawi failed to rally support for them.

"Sunni and Kurdish political forces authorized Prime Minister-designate Mustafa Al-Kadhimi to choose cabinet ministers, which led Shiites to follow the same path, also led to force all forces to give Al-Kadhimi the authority to choose his ministers,” Muhammad al-Karbouli, also a parliament member, told Shafaq News.

"After the Kurdish-Sunni authorization, project of foiling Al-Kadhimi’s mission had been thwart."

For his part, Ali al-Budairi, deputy of al-Hikma Movement led by Ammar al-Hakim, told Shafaq News, "The issue of thwarting the task of the prime ministers-designate (Muhammad Allawi, Adnan al-Zurfi, Mustafa al-Kadhimi), had a prior and agreed preparation among some political parties, and the goal of these parties is to keep the current, resigned government and it has positions and privileges that it does not want to lose. "

“These parties are working to impose pressures and conditions with high ceilings and create problems, until they force the prime ministers assigned to apologize, as happened with Allawi and Al-Zurfi, and they are now working in this matter with Al-Kadhimi,” Al-Badiri said.

"Al-Kadhimi differs from his predecessors, because of his great political experience."

If Al-Kadhimi obtains confidence from the parliament, the new government will succeed the government of Abdul-Mahdi, who resigned in early December 2019 under pressure from popular protests calling for the departure and accountability of the political class accused of corruption and waste of state funds.

Iraqi political forces have agreed that the post-Mahdi government’s mission is to call for early elections in the country.

For the government to obtain the confidence of Parliament, an absolute majority vote (50 percent + 1) is required for the number of members present to grant confidence.

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