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Shafaq News- Baghdad
Fawaz al-Jarba is expected to take a parliamentary seat representing
Iraq’s Nineveh province after lawmaker Abdul Rahim al-Shammari was approved as
Agriculture Minister in the country’s new government lineup, a source within
the High Electoral Commission (IHEC) told Shafaq News on Thursday.
Al-Jarba serves as the first reserve candidate for the Reconstruction
and Development Alliance, led by former Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani.
The bloc secured four positions in Nineveh and won a total of 46 parliamentary
seats in the November 2025 parliamentary election.
Under Iraq’s constitution and the principle of separation of powers,
lawmakers appointed to ministerial positions generally give up their
parliamentary seats to concentrate on executive responsibilities. Iraqi MPs
previously advanced a proposal requiring incoming ministers in the government
of Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi to sign written pledges preventing them and
close relatives from running in future elections.
Earlier today, the Council of Representatives of Iraq approved 14
ministerial nominees by an absolute majority vote, filling key portfolios
across economic, social, and diplomatic sectors. Lawmakers also rejected
nominees for the ministries of Planning, Culture, Reconstruction, Higher
Education, and Interior.