{"id":113827,"date":"2026-05-14T16:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T16:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/113827\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T16:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T16:00:08","slug":"iraqs-parliament-approves-cabinet-ministers-in-single-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/113827\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq&#8217;s Parliament approves cabinet ministers in single session"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                            2026-05-14T15:33:26+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>Iraq&#8217;s Council of Representatives approved 14 ministerial appointments<br \/>\nby absolute majority vote Thursday, filling key cabinet posts across the<br \/>\ngovernment&#8217;s economic, social, and diplomatic portfolios, according to votes<br \/>\nrecorded by the chamber.<\/p>\n<p>The confirmed appointments are as follows:<\/p>\n<p>-Ministry of Oil: Basim Muhammad Khudhair al-Abadi<\/p>\n<p>-Ministry of Industry and Minerals: Muhammad Nouri Ahmad al-Karbouli<\/p>\n<p>-Ministry of Electricity: Ali Saad Wahib<\/p>\n<p>-Ministry of Health: Abd al-Hussein Aziz<\/p>\n<p>-Ministry of Environment: Sarwa Abd al-Wahid<\/p>\n<p>-Ministry of Agriculture: Abd al-Rahim Jasim<\/p>\n<p>-Ministry of Water Resources: Muthanna Ali Mahdi<\/p>\n<p>-Ministry of Trade: Mustafa Nizar Jumaa<\/p>\n<p>-Ministry of Justice: Khalid Shwani<\/p>\n<p>-Ministry of Transport: Wahab Salman Muhammad<\/p>\n<p>-Ministry of Finance: Falih al-Sari<\/p>\n<p>-Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Fuad Hussein<\/p>\n<p>-Ministry of Communications: Mustafa Jabbar Sanad<\/p>\n<p>The votes were conducted under Iraq&#8217;s constitutional requirement for an<br \/>\nabsolute parliamentary majority to confirm ministerial appointments.<\/p>\n<p>The chamber denied confidence to the nominated candidates for the<br \/>\nministries of Planning, Culture, Reconstruction, Education, and Interior,<br \/>\naccording to Shafaq News correspondents.<\/p>\n<p>This is a breaking story\u2026 <\/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\"><\/p>\n<p>Read more: Al-Zaidi named Iraq&#8217;s prime minister: Easy nomination, harder road ahead<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-05-14T15:33:26+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Baghdad Iraq&#8217;s Council of Representatives approved 14 ministerial&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[30690,152,32445,35792,94,39373,39238],"class_list":{"0":"post-113827","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iraq","8":"tag-ali-al-zaidi","9":"tag-breaking","10":"tag-cabinet-formation","11":"tag-confidence-vote","12":"tag-iraq","13":"tag-iraqs-parliament-approves-cabinet-ministers-in-single-session","14":"tag-nominees"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116573767234115176","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113827","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=113827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}