Al-Maliki: The course of democracy must be corrected and the vacant ministries in Al-Zidi’s government must be filled.
Al-Maliki: The course of democracy must be corrected and the vacant ministries in Al-Zidi’s government must be filled.
2026-05-24
Shafaq News – Baghdad
On Sunday, Nouri al-Maliki, head of the State of Law Coalition, stressed the need for the Iraqi parliament to decide on granting confidence to the candidates for the vacant ministerial positions in the current federal government headed by Prime Minister Ali al-Zubaidi.
This came in a joint press conference he held with Masrour Barzani, the Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Region, following a meeting between them in Baghdad, where Maliki confirmed that the two sides discussed some key and important matters for the democratic and national framework, especially regarding the House of Representatives granting confidence to the Iraqi government.
Al-Maliki called for correcting this course by granting confidence to the candidates for the vacant ministries, adding: “Our ideas and visions are unified, and we are optimistic in this regard.”
The Iraqi parliament voted last Thursday (May 14) to grant confidence to the Al-Zidi government and its ministerial program with 14 ministers, while the vote on the remaining 9 ministries was postponed until after the Eid al-Adha holiday due to the continuation of political disputes over the distribution of portfolios, amid reports of international warnings against the inclusion of armed factions in the new ministerial formation.
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