After the political disaster that has been happening for months in Iraq, the presidential election was held.
Abdullatif Reşid, who was a member of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) within the 329-seat Iraqi Meeting, however entered the election independently, couldn’t get the 220 deputies required for his election within the first spherical, and remained in 157.
Reşid, who entered the second spherical because the favorite, with the present President Berhem Salih, supported by his celebration, obtained 99 votes within the first spherical, and have become the brand new president of Iraq by reaching a adequate variety of votes.
Within the second spherical session of the 329-seat Parliament, 269 deputies attended and voted. Reşid, who obtained 162 of the legitimate votes, took the oath within the Parliament and began his obligation.
In line with the Iraqi Structure, it’s not doable to kind a authorities with out the election of the president. The president, elected by a two-thirds majority by the 329-seat parliament, offers the most important group in parliament the ability to kind a authorities.
The brand new President is anticipated to assign the Prime Minister candidate of the Shiite Coordination Framework, Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, to kind the federal government.
Though there was no written rule after 2003, there was a political custom in Iraq the place the president was Kurdish, the prime minister was Shiite, and the speaker of the parliament was Sunni.
Rashid, who was educated in England, served because the Iraqi Ministry of Water Assets and the Undersecretary of former President Jalal Talabani.
ELECTION IN IRAQ
Sadr Motion got here first within the common elections held in October final 12 months in Iraq. Nevertheless, Sadr Motion chief Muqtada es-Sadr, who didn’t wish to kind a authorities with pro-Iranian events, introduced that he had withdrawn from politics up to now months, and had his deputies resigned.
After this growth, Sadr’s Iran-backed Shiite rivals nominated former Labor Minister Sudani as prime minister.
Iraqi Parliament Speaker Mohammad Halbusi stated in an announcement up to now weeks, “A presidential election shall be held on the parliamentary session to be held on Thursday.”
Despite the fact that a 12 months has handed because the elections within the nation, the deep political disaster brought on by the disagreement among the many Shiites and the Kurds’ lack of ability to agree on the presidential candidate prevented the formation of the brand new authorities.
FIRST ACTION: AUTHORITY TO GOVERN SUDANI
The brand new President of Iraq, Abdullatif Rashid, has appointed the Prime Minister candidate of the Shiite alliance, Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, to kind the federal government.
Rashid, who turned the brand new President of the nation with 162 votes within the second spherical of the session held right now within the Iraqi Parliament, gave the duty of forming the federal government to Sudani, the candidate of the Coordination Framework.
WHO IS MUHAMMED SIYA ES-SUDANI?
Sudani served as a district governor and governor in Maysan province.
Born in 1970, Sudani served because the Minister of Labor in numerous intervals after 2003, and likewise served because the Minister of Agriculture, Immigration and Immigration, and the Ministry of Trade and Commerce and Finance.
The Shiite Coordination Framework led by the previous Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and the Fatah Coalition chief and Hashd al-Shaabi commander Hadi al-Amiri nominated Sudani, who can also be the chief of the Furateyn Motion, which has two deputies within the parliament.