{"id":101423,"date":"2026-05-06T23:11:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T23:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/101423\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T23:11:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T23:11:12","slug":"iraqs-sunni-council-to-join-pm-designate-al-zaidi-cabinet-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/101423\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq\u2019s Sunni council to join PM-designate Al-Zaidi cabinet vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                            2026-05-06T21:20:22+00:00<\/p>\n<p>                                    font<\/p>\n<p>                                            Enable Reading Mode<\/p>\n<p>\n                                        A-<br \/>\n                                        A<br \/>\n                                        A+\n                                    <\/p>\n<p>Shafaq News- Baghdad<\/p>\n<p>The Sunni National Political Council* (NPC) confirmed on Wednesday that<br \/>\nit will attend the parliamentary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shafaq.com\/en\/Iraq\/Iraq-s-parliament-to-vote-on-new-cabinet-next-week\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">vote<\/a> on Prime Minister-designate Ali<br \/>\nal-Zaidi\u2019s cabinet, noting that understandings tied to the government formation<br \/>\nprocess have been completed.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the Council\u2019s media office indicated that the<br \/>\nparticipants put forward a joint proposal outlining priorities and<br \/>\nexpectations, including demands from their respective provinces to be reflected<br \/>\nin the political agreement and the government agenda. They also called for<br \/>\naligning positions and coordinating efforts to address the country\u2019s<br \/>\nchallenges, while moving forward under a framework of political consensus and<br \/>\nshared responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>According to Shafaq News sources, the incoming Iraqi <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shafaq.com\/en\/Iraq\/Iraq-s-PM-designate-to-submit-14-ministers-to-parliament-next-week\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">government<\/a> is set<br \/>\nto comprise 22 ministerial portfolios: 12 allocated to the Shiite Coordination<br \/>\nFramework factions, six to Sunni blocs, and four to Kurdish parties.<\/p>\n<p>*The National Political Council is a Sunni umbrella bloc formed after<br \/>\nthe 2025 parliamentary elections to unify positions, coordinate political<br \/>\ndemands, and represent Sunni forces in negotiations with other major blocs. It<br \/>\nholds a total of 77 seats in parliament.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shafaq.com\/en\/Report\/Ali-al-Zaidi-named-Iraq-s-prime-minister-Easy-nomination-harder-road-ahead\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more: Ali al-Zaidi named Iraq&#8217;s prime minister: Easy nomination, harder road ahead<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-05-06T21:20:22+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Baghdad The Sunni National Political Council* (NPC) confirmed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[14],"tags":[30690,152,32445,94,35421,35422,31621,33921],"class_list":["post-101423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iraq","tag-ali-al-zaidi","tag-breaking","tag-cabinet-formation","tag-iraq","tag-iraqs-sunni-council-to-join-pm-designate-al-zaidi-cabinet-vote","tag-national-political-council","tag-pm-designate","tag-sunni-blocs"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116530163439418830","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}