Shafaq News / MP, Muhammad al-Karbouli, a leader in the Iraqi Forces Coalition said on Wednesday that a step made by the Kurdish and Sunni blocs ended the attempt to thwart Mustafa al-Kadhimi's government.

Al-Kadhimi, the third figure to be assigned by Iraqi President Barham Salih, to form a government on the 9^th of current April in 30 days, after his predecessors Adnan al-Zurfi and Muhammad Tawfiq Allawi failed to rally support for them.

"Sunni and Kurdish political forces authorized Prime Minister-designate Mustafa Al-Kadhimi to choose cabinet ministers, which led Shiites to follow the same path, also led to force all forces to give Al-Kadhimi the authority to choose his ministers,” Al-Karbouli told Shafaq News.

"After the Kurdish-Sunni authorization, project of foiling Al-Kadhimi’s mission had been thwart."

For his part, Ali al-Budairi, deputy of al-Hikma Movement led by Ammar al-Hakim, told Shafaq News, "The issue of thwarting the task of the prime ministers-designate (Muhammad Allawi, Adnan al-Zurfi, Mustafa al-Kadhimi), had a prior and agreed preparation among some political parties, and the goal of these parties is to keep the current, resigned government and it has positions and privileges that it does not want to lose. "

“These parties are working to impose pressures and conditions with high ceilings and create problems, until they force the prime ministers assigned to apologize, as happened with Allawi and Al-Zurfi, and they are now working in this matter with Al-Kadhimi,” Al-Badiri said.

"Al-Kadhimi differs from his predecessors, because of his great political experience."

If Al-Kadhimi obtains confidence from the parliament, the new government will succeed the government of Abdul-Mahdi, who resigned in early December 2019 under pressure from popular protests calling for the departure and accountability of the political class accused of corruption and waste of state funds.

Iraqi political forces have agreed that the post-Mahdi government’s mission is to call for early elections in the country.

For the government to obtain the confidence of Parliament (319 seats), an absolute majority vote (50 percent + 1) is required for the number of members present (not the total number) to grant confidence.