Iraq: Shiites fail to nominate a new prime minister
Issue 973
- 04 Jul 2014
| 4 minute read
The first meeting of Iraq’s new Council of Representatives on 1 July ended in failure, as Sunni and Kurdish politicians walked out in protest at the Shiite bloc’s failure to nominate a replacement for Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki. Parliament’s first task, as it convened 15 days after the Federal Supreme Court ratified the results of the 30 April parliamentary elections, was to approve a speaker and two deputies; in theory, once that has happened a two-thirds majority must then vote for a new president, whose duty after a further 15 days will be to invite the leader of the largest bloc to form a government.
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