{"id":112261,"date":"2026-05-13T17:52:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T17:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/112261\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T17:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T17:52:07","slug":"iraq-pm-designate-still-assessing-ministerial-nominees-before-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/112261\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq PM-designate still assessing ministerial nominees before vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                            2026-05-13T17:22:31+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>Iraqi Prime Minister-designate<br \/>\nAli Al-Zaidi has yet to finalize his cabinet lineup and continues reviewing<br \/>\ncandidates submitted by political blocs and parties, a source close to the<br \/>\nnegotiations told Shafaq News on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Zaidi is holding intensive<br \/>\nmeetings with a special advisory team to assess r\u00e9sum\u00e9s and proposed nominees<br \/>\nbefore making final decisions on ministerial posts, according to the source,<br \/>\nwho spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the<br \/>\ndiscussions. \u201cSome portfolios may remain unresolved until the final hours<br \/>\nbefore Parliament convenes for the confidence vote tomorrow.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The prime minister-designate has<br \/>\nalso raised objections to several nominees and requested replacement candidates<br \/>\nfrom certain political blocs and parties, the source added.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier today, Hoqooq bloc* MP<br \/>\nMiqdad Al-Khafaji told our agency that Parliament is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shafaq.com\/en\/Iraq\/Iraq-cabinet-nominees-still-unknown-despite-confidence-vote-tomorrow-MP-says\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">moving<\/a> ahead with the<br \/>\nvote despite lawmakers not yet receiving the names or r\u00e9sum\u00e9s of ministerial<br \/>\ncandidates. He noted that the bloc hopes they would be submitted at least 48<br \/>\nhours before the session to allow lawmakers sufficient time to review<br \/>\nqualifications and records, warning that some MPs may boycott the vote if they<br \/>\nremain unconvinced by the proposed nominees.<\/p>\n<p>Parliament\u2019s presidency<br \/>\nofficially set Thursday as the date for the confidence vote following days of<br \/>\npolitical disputes over the timing of the session and the distribution of<br \/>\nministries among rival factions. Political sources previously said disagreements<br \/>\npersist over sovereign and security portfolios, particularly the oil and<br \/>\ndefense ministries, raising the possibility that Al-Zaidi may present only part<br \/>\nof his cabinet for parliamentary approval.<\/p>\n<p>* Hoqooq is the political<br \/>\nwing of the armed group Kataib Hezbollah and is part of the Shiite Coordination<br \/>\nFramework, the largest bloc with about 162 of parliament&#8217;s 329 seats.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shafaq.com\/en\/Report\/Ali-al-Zaidi-named-Iraq-s-prime-minister-Easy-nomination-harder-road-ahead\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more:\u00a0Al-Zaidi named Iraq&#8217;s prime minister: Easy nomination, harder road ahead<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-05-13T17:22:31+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Baghdad Iraqi Prime Minister-designate Ali Al-Zaidi has yet&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[14],"tags":[30690,152,32445,35792,94,38836],"class_list":["post-112261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iraq","tag-ali-al-zaidi","tag-breaking","tag-cabinet-formation","tag-confidence-vote","tag-iraq","tag-iraq-pm-designate-still-assessing-ministerial-nominees-before-vote"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116568545273612733","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112261","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=112261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}