“Important” understandings regarding the premiership postpone the framework meeting to Saturday
“Important” understandings regarding the premiership postpone the framework meeting to Saturday
2026-04-15
Shafaq News – Baghdad
The coordinating framework decided on Wednesday evening to postpone its meeting scheduled for tonight until next Saturday after reaching “important” understandings regarding the leadership of the government.
A source close to the framework told Shafaq News Agency that “the leaders of the framework agreed to postpone the meeting that was supposed to be held this evening until Saturday, after reaching important understandings.”
He added that “the new understandings require more time to resolve the issue of the prime ministership.”
He added, “This evening, a meeting will be held between some leaders of the coordination framework, at the home of the head of the National Wisdom Movement, Ammar al-Hakim.”
This comes against the backdrop of a division within the coordination framework that split it into three wings due to disagreements over the candidate for the next prime minister, according to what a well-informed political source revealed earlier today.
The political source told Shafaq News Agency, on Wednesday, that “the disagreements within the framework are no longer limited to differing viewpoints, but have developed into an actual split within the alliance into three main wings, which has cast a shadow over today’s meeting scheduled to be held at Humam Hamoudi’s house, with growing doubts about the possibility of postponing it to another date.”
He explained that “the first faction insists on nominating the leader of the State of Law Coalition, Nouri al-Maliki, or any figure who enjoys his explicit support from among the proposed names, while a second faction is pushing for the renaming of the caretaker Prime Minister, Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, while the third faction prefers to go for a compromise candidate who can gain wider acceptance within and outside the Shiite community.”
The source added that “the leaders decided to put forward a list of names at the meeting, including Nouri al-Maliki or someone who has his support, Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, Basim al-Badri, Ali Youssef al-Shukri, Hamid al-Shatri, Abdul-Ilah al-Naili, and Mohsen al-Mandalawi.”
These disputes come at a time when the government formation process has entered a critical constitutional phase, following the election of Nizar Amidi as President of the Republic on April 11, and the obligation of the largest parliamentary bloc to present its candidate for the premiership within a maximum period of 15 days.
This dispute is more sensitive because al-Maliki was originally put forward as an official candidate for the Coordination Framework for the Prime Ministership, before the calculations became complicated later due to internal objections and external pressures, most notably the American position rejecting the establishment of a government that it sees as subject to Iranian influence, which reshuffled the cards within the framework and prompted some of its parties to reopen the search for alternatives or a compromise candidate.
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