{"id":182960,"date":"2022-10-13T20:51:31","date_gmt":"2022-10-13T17:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/?p=182960"},"modified":"2022-10-13T20:51:31","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T17:51:31","slug":"iraqi-parliament-elects-new-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/iraqi-parliament-elects-new-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraqi parliament elects new president"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Lawmakers in Iraq have elected Kurdish politician Abdul Latif Rashid as the country\u2019s new president, paving the way for the formation of a new government and ending a year of deadlock even as\u00a0rockets landed\u00a0near the parliament building.<\/p>\n

Rashid replaced fellow Iraqi Kurd\u00a0Barham Saleh\u00a0as head of state after the two-round vote in parliament on Thursday, winning more than 160 votes against 99 for Saleh, an assembly official said. Saleh reportedly walked out of the parliament building as the votes were tallied.<\/p>\n

Shia politician Mohammed Shia al-Sudani was quickly named prime minister-designate, assuming the task of reconciling\u00a0feuding Shia\u00a0factions and forming a government after a year of deadlock. Al-Sudani replaces caretaker premier Mustafa al-Kadhemi.<\/p>\n

In Iraq\u2019s power-sharing system, the presidency is reserved for Kurdish groups to nominate while the premiership falls under Shia blocs. The speaker of parliament is a Sunni.<\/p>\n

Reporting from Baghdad, Al Jazeera\u2019s Mahmoud Abdelwahed said the election of Rashid signals that \u201cthis chapter of rivalry has been concluded in the Iraqi parliament\u201d, while noting that forming a government could still be an uphill battle.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt remains to be seen what reactions could unfold in the streets given the fact that this has not been easy,\u201d Abdelwahed said. \u201cThis process has taken a long time and it has included violence between supporters of rival political parties.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 52-year-old Sudani, who has the backing of the pro-Iranian Coordination Framework, will now have 30 days to form a government, a daunting task that will require winning over those affiliated with influential Shia leader\u00a0Muqtada al-Sadr.<\/p>\n

The most recent\u00a0political deadlock\u00a0began after al-Sadr emerged as the biggest winner in an October 2021 parliamentary vote, but failed to rally enough support to form a government. Al-Sadr in August announced what he called his \u201cfinal withdrawal\u201d from politics, sparking protests that\u00a0killed\u00a0at least 30.<\/p>\n

In July, when al-Sudani was first proposed for the role, protesters backed by al-Sadr also stormed parliament. The standoff has seen both sides set up protest camps in the heavily fortified Green Zone, which houses many government buildings.<\/p>\n

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  Lawmakers in Iraq have elected Kurdish politician Abdul Latif Rashid as the country\u2019s new president, paving the way for the formation of a new government and ending a year of deadlock even as\u00a0rockets landed\u00a0near the parliament building. Rashid replaced fellow Iraqi Kurd\u00a0Barham Saleh\u00a0as head of state after the two-round vote in parliament on Thursday, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":182962,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10221280388112155_325455220908133":"","twitter_917774835383787521_917774835383787521":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182960"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182963,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182960\/revisions\/182963"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}