{"id":84685,"date":"2026-04-26T19:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T19:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/84685\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T19:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T19:01:08","slug":"cf-halts-formal-sessions-until-consensus-on-iraqs-next-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/84685\/","title":{"rendered":"CF halts formal sessions until consensus on Iraq\u2019s next PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                            2026-04-26T18:42:44+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) has suspended its formal meetings<br \/>\nuntil consensus is reached on the country\u2019s next prime minister, a political<br \/>\nsource told Shafaq News on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Efforts are underway to arrange a meeting between Nouri al-Maliki, head<br \/>\nof the State of Law Coalition, and caretaker Prime Minister Mohammed Shia<br \/>\nal-Sudani. The initiative, mediated by Faleh al-Fayyadh, leader of Iraq\u2019s<br \/>\nPopular Mobilization Forces (PMF), seeks to ease tensions between the two CF<br \/>\nfigures, as both continue to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shafaq.com\/en\/Iraq\/Iraq-PM-race-stalls-as-Al-Maliki-and-Al-Sudani-reject-stepping-aside\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">insist<\/a> on their candidacy for the post.<\/p>\n<p>If the meeting takes place and produces an understanding, CF<br \/>\nSecretary-General Hadi al-Amiri is expected to name the bloc\u2019s nominee for the<br \/>\npremiership. If no deal is reached, discussions will likely shift toward<br \/>\nsmaller, more focused gatherings rather than the broader sessions previously<br \/>\nheld by the Framework.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier CF <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shafaq.com\/en\/Iraq\/Coordination-Framework-meets-as-Iraq-PM-deadline-nears\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">meetings<\/a>, which holds around 162 of parliament\u2019s 329 seats,<br \/>\ncentered on potential compromise figures, including Haider al-Abadi and Ihsan<br \/>\nal-Awadi, yet no agreement materialized.<\/p>\n<p>The alliance has repeatedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shafaq.com\/en\/Iraq\/Iraq-s-CF-delays-decision-on-PM-candidate-again\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">failed<\/a> to unite behind a single nominee.<br \/>\nUnder Iraq\u2019s post-2003 power-sharing arrangement, the presidency goes to a<br \/>\nKurd, the premiership to a Shiite, and the speakership to a Sunni Arab.<br \/>\nParliament elected Nizar Amedi as president on April 11, triggering the process<br \/>\nto select a prime minister. The Framework faces its constitutional deadline<br \/>\ntoday to present a candidate, after which the nominee has 30 days to form a<br \/>\ngovernment and secure parliamentary confidence under Article 76 of the<br \/>\nconstitution.<\/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":"2026-04-26T18:42:44+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Baghdad Iraq\u2019s Coordination Framework (CF) has suspended its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[152,14136,30202,30203,94,12613,25863],"class_list":{"0":"post-84685","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-cf-halts-formal-sessions-until-consensus-on-iraqs-next-pm","11":"tag-consensus","12":"tag-iraq","13":"tag-meeting","14":"tag-next-pm"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116472557307193460","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84685","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=84685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}