{"id":89133,"date":"2026-04-29T11:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T11:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/89133\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T11:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T11:34:09","slug":"iraq-pm-designate-sets-up-teams-to-shape-cabinet-and-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/89133\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq PM-designate sets up teams to shape cabinet and agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                            2026-04-29T11:10:42+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 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shafaq News- Baghdad<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Iraqi Prime Minister-designate, Ali Al-Zaidi, has formed<br \/>\ntwo teams to draft the government program and select the ministerial cabinet, a<br \/>\nmember of Iraq\u2019s Coordination Framework, Abu Methaq al-Masari, told Shafaq News<br \/>\non Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Al-Masari noted that Al-Zaidi revealed the step during a<br \/>\nvisit to Hadi al-Ameri, Secretary General of the Badr Organization, describing<br \/>\nthe Coordination Framework\u2019s nomination of Al-Zaidi as serious and official.<br \/>\n\u201cAl-Zaidi\u2019s meetings with bloc leaders on Wednesday reflect his intent to<br \/>\naccelerate government formation,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Separately, a political source told Shafaq News that the<br \/>\ndistribution of ministries will be based on a points system tied to<br \/>\nparliamentary representation. \u201cService ministries will require no fewer than 10<br \/>\nparliamentary seats, while sovereign ministries will require more than 15<br \/>\nseats,\u201d he explained, clarifying that the allocation of independent bodies<br \/>\n\u201cwill be determined after the cabinet formation is completed.\u201d <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Another source within the Framework told our agency that<br \/>\npolitical leaders are set to <a href=\"https:\/\/shafaq.com\/en\/Iraq\/Al-Maliki-Coordination-Framework-leaders-support-Iraq-PM-designate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">meet<\/a> with Al-Zaidi later today to discuss cabinet<br \/>\nformation, including the structure of the next government and the distribution<br \/>\nof ministerial portfolios based on agreed criteria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-04-29T11:10:42+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Baghdad The Iraqi Prime Minister-designate, Ali Al-Zaidi, has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[30690,152,8090,31673,94,31672],"class_list":{"0":"post-89133","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-coordination-framework","11":"tag-hadi-al-ameri","12":"tag-iraq","13":"tag-iraq-pm-designate-sets-up-teams-to-shape-cabinet-and-agenda"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116487786743244930","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89133","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=89133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}