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Shafaq News- Baghdad

Political factions that withdrew from the Reconstruction and Development
bloc, led by former Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani and aligned with the
State of Law Coalition headed by Nouri al-Maliki, are preparing to form a new
alliance under the name “Strongman Alliance,” a political source told Shafaq
News on Saturday.

Iraqi politician close to the Shiite Coordination Framework, Abu Mithaq
al-Masari, noted that the alliance would be formally launched once
consultations among its leadership are completed, adding that the bloc aims to
“restore balance” to the political process and prevent factions close to Prime
Minister Ali al-Zaidi from dominating decision-making without broader
coordination with other political forces.

Characterizing the allocation of the Oil and Electricity ministries to
al-Sudani’s bloc as a “major imbalance,” he argued that sovereign ministries are
typically valued at no more than 14 points or parliamentary seats under the
political quota system, while the two ministries together accounted for more
than double that figure.

‘’That imbalance prompted some allied factions to withdraw from the bloc
due to concerns over their political and electoral shares,’’ he maintained.

Earlier this week, a source informed Shafaq News that five of Iraq’s
“most powerful” Shiite political figures are in advanced discussions to form a
new parliamentary alliance, stressing that the development would redraw the
internal map of the Shiite Coordination Framework (CF) and place a bloc of up
to 100 lawmakers in open opposition to the terms of Prime Minister al-Zaidi’s
newly formed government.

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