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Shafaq News- Baghdad
Iraq’s Coordination Framework intensified negotiations over
government formation with a meeting at the residence of State of Law Coalition
leader 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 figure
Amer Al-Fayez, the leader of the Foundation (Al-Asas) bloc Mohsen Al-Mandalawi,
and Secretary-General of Kataib SayyidAl-Shuhada Abu Alaa
Al-Walaei.
The source pointed out that “a proposal will be presented at
April 25 meeting to move forward with Basim Al-Badri as prime minister, in
exchange for granting the Reconstruction and Development Coalition (Al-Ima’ar
wal-Tanmiya), led by caretaker PM Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani, five ministerial
portfolios, including a deputy PM post and a sovereign ministry.” Preliminary
understandings, he added, include avoiding the reopening of files related to
previous governments and improving Iraq’s relations with regional countries, “as
part of efforts to ease internal and external tensions as the new government
takes shape.”
The source noted that participants did not support the newly
proposed candidates raised during Friday’s meeting.
These developments follow a Coordination Framework meeting
on Friday that ended without agreement on a prime ministerial candidate.