{"id":88507,"date":"2026-04-29T01:37:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T01:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/88507\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T01:37:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T01:37:13","slug":"shiite-bloc-candidate-ali-al-zaidi-named-iraqs-pm-designate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/88507\/","title":{"rendered":"Shiite Bloc Candidate Ali al-Zaidi Named Iraq\u2019s PM-Designate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.islamtimes.com\/en\/news\/1277351\/shiite-bloc-candidate-ali-al-zaidi-named-iraq-s-pm-designate\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/n01277351-b.jpg\" alt=\"Shiite Bloc Candidate Ali al-Zaidi Named Iraq\u2019s PM-Designate\" title=\"Shiite Bloc Candidate Ali al-Zaidi Named Iraq\u2019s PM-Designate\" class=\"img-responsive\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>            Islam Times &#8211; Iraq\u2019s President Nizar Amedi named Ali al-Zaidi as prime minister-designate and tasked him with forming a government.Al-Zaidi was named on Monday as the candidate of the Coordination Framework, a coalition of Shiite parties that has a majority in parliament.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter considering the names of the candidates, Ali al-Zaidi was chosen to be the candidate of the Coordination Framework bloc, as the largest bloc in the House of Representatives, to occupy the position of prime minister and form the next government,\u201d a Coordination Framework statement read after a meeting in Baghdad, Al Jazeera reported.<\/p>\n<p>The selection of al-Zaidi breaks a months-long deadlock in which US President Donald Trump had intervened, after former two-time Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki had emerged as the coalition\u2019s initial candidate.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Maliki was fiercely opposed by Trump. The US president warned that all support to Iraq would stop if he became prime minister.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Coordination Framework said that al-Maliki and outgoing Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani had withdrawn their candidacies.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement announcing al-Zaidi\u2019s nomination, the coalition thanked al-Maliki and al-Sudani for their \u201chistoric and responsible positions\u201d in withdrawing their candidacies to help overcome the political deadlock. Al-Sudani issued a statement congratulating al-Zaidi.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Zaidi, who is chairman of Al-Janoob Islamic Bank, emerged in the final stages of discussions as a leading candidate, bolstered by his economic background and connections in the business and investment sectors. He has not previously held political office.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Zaidi promised to focus on making Iraq \u201ca balanced country, regionally and internationally\u201d following his nomination.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis appointment comes at a sensitive time that requires concerted efforts from all political and social forces,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Under the constitution, the designated prime minister has 30 days to present a cabinet to parliament, with 167 votes required to secure a vote of confidence.<\/p>\n<p>In the country\u2019s power-sharing system, in place since 2003 following the US-led coalition\u2019s invasion, the presidency goes to the Kurds, the premiership to Shiite Arabs, and the post of parliament speaker to the Sunnis.&#13;\n  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Islam Times &#8211; Iraq\u2019s President Nizar Amedi named Ali al-Zaidi as prime minister-designate and tasked him with forming&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[605,4109,3700,31425,592,621,31421,27588,31423,31428,394,31427,94,4095,598,4100,31422,31424,4096,1372,4106,1590,31426,599,3892,31157],"class_list":{"0":"post-88507","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iraq","8":"tag-a","9":"tag-al","10":"tag-ali","11":"tag-amedi","12":"tag-and","13":"tag-as","14":"tag-bloc","15":"tag-candidate","16":"tag-designate","17":"tag-forming","18":"tag-government","19":"tag-him","20":"tag-iraq","21":"tag-iraqs","22":"tag-islam","23":"tag-minister","24":"tag-named","25":"tag-nizar","26":"tag-pm","27":"tag-president","28":"tag-prime","29":"tag-shiite","30":"tag-tasked","31":"tag-times","32":"tag-with","33":"tag-zaidi"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116485439084479340","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88507","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=88507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}