{"id":82984,"date":"2026-04-25T12:37:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T12:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/82984\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T12:37:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T12:37:10","slug":"iraq-to-choose-prime-minister-nominee-ahead-of-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/82984\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq to choose prime minister nominee ahead of deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                            2026-04-25T12:13:39+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\u2019s Coordination Framework (CF) \u2013the largest bloc in the country&#8217;s 329-seat parliament\u2013 is expected to decide its final nominee for prime minister on Saturday, ahead of the April 26 deadline, sources told Shafaq News.<\/p>\n<p>A meeting scheduled for later today will determine the selection process, with the nominee required to secure <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shafaq.com\/en\/Iraq\/Coordination-consider-proposal-to-break-premiership-impasse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">two-thirds<\/a> of leaders\u2019 votes through multiple rounds of individual balloting. The candidates include former Prime Ministers Haider Al-Abadi and Nouri Al-Maliki, caretaker Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani, Accountability and Justice Commission head Bassem Al-Badri, and former prime minister-designate Adnan Al-Zurfi.<\/p>\n<p>Divisions continue to delay consensus, with a meeting between Al-Sudani and Al-Maliki also expected later today as part of efforts to break the impasse.<\/p>\n<p>The push follows a meeting on April 24 that ended without agreement, prompting further consultations, including a second gathering at Al-Maliki\u2019s residence.<\/p>\n<p>Under Iraq\u2019s post-2003 power-sharing system, the presidency is held by a Kurd, the premiership by a Shiite, and the speakership by a Sunni Arab. Parliament elected Nizar Amedi as president on April 11, triggering the constitutional process to nominate a prime minister. The CF has 15 days to present its candidate, after which the nominee has 30 days to form a government and secure parliamentary confidence under Article 76 of the constitution.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shafaq.com\/en\/Iraq\/Iraq-s-CF-weighs-consensus-candidate-for-premiership\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more: Coordination Framework: Can govern Iraq, but cannot agree on a PM<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-04-25T12:13:39+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Baghdad Iraq\u2019s Coordination Framework (CF) \u2013the largest bloc&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[152,14136,94,29658,5166],"class_list":{"0":"post-82984","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iraq","8":"tag-breaking","9":"tag-cf","10":"tag-iraq","11":"tag-iraq-to-choose-prime-minister-nominee-ahead-of-deadline","12":"tag-premiership"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116465385001111988","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82984","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=82984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}