Al-Zidi’s government gains partial confidence: Parliament approves 14 ministers and rejects nominees for three sovereign ministries
Al-Zidi’s government gains partial confidence: Parliament approves 14 ministers and rejects nominees for three sovereign ministries
5-14-2026
The Iraqi Parliament voted on Thursday to approve 14 ministers in Prime Minister Nabil al-Zaidi’s cabinet, while the nominees for the ministries of Education, Interior, and Planning failed to secure parliamentary approval. An Al -Maalomah correspondent reported that Parliament voted on 14 nominees from al-Zaidi’s cabinet, while the vote on the nominees for the ministries of Interior, Youth and Sports, Construction and Housing, Education, and Planning was postponed. The correspondent
explained that the State of Law Coalition’s nominees for Higher Education, Amer al-Khuza’i, and for Interior, Qasim Atta, failed to gain parliamentary confidence, as did the Azm Bloc’s nominee for Planning, Ahmed Nazim.
He noted that the 14 ministers who received parliamentary confidence were: Ali Basim Muhammad Khudair as Minister of Oil, Muhammad Nuri Ahmad as Minister of Industry, Ali Saad Wahib as Minister of Electricity, Abdul-Hussein Aziz as Minister of Health, Sarwa Abdul-Wahid as Minister of Environment, Abdul-Rahim Jassim as Minister of Agriculture, Muthanna Ali Mahdi as Minister of Water Resources, Mustafa Nizar Jumaa as Minister of Trade, Khalid Shawani as Minister of Justice, Abdul-Karim Abtan as Minister of Education, Wahab Salman Muhammad as Minister of Transport, Falih al-Sari as Minister of Finance, Fuad Hussein as Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Mustafa Jabbar Sanad as Minister of Communications.
almaalomah.me
