Urgent call to declare an “emergency government” in Iraq
Urgent call to declare an “emergency government” in Iraq
2026-03-22
Shafaq News – Baghdad
Former Speaker of Parliament, Mahmoud al-Mashhadani, on Saturday called for the declaration of a 45-day emergency government.
Al-Mashhadani said in a post: “I appeal to the parliamentary blocs, the Speaker of Parliament, and his two deputies to hold an extraordinary session and declare an emergency government for 45 days.”
It is worth noting that a source within the coordinating framework that brings together the ruling Shiite political forces in Iraq told Shafaq News Agency last Monday that the coalition leadership agreed to postpone deciding on a prime ministerial candidate until after the end of the ongoing regional war between the United States and Israel against Iran .
The Coordination Framework had officially nominated Maliki on January 24, a move that opened the door to negotiations to form the new government, but the process faltered as disagreements continued over the election of the President of the Republic, the constitutional entitlement that precedes assigning the candidate of the largest bloc to form the government .
However, al-Maliki’s nomination was met with rejection from some Sunni forces, as well as parties within the Shiite bloc itself, in addition to strong rejection from the American administration, whose president, Donald Trump, threatened at the time that Washington would stop its aid to Iraq if al-Maliki assumed the premiership.
shafaq.com
