Tishwash:  maybe the escalated demonstrations are helping hmmm

Parliamentary Bloc: Saleh will announce today a personal candidate for prime minister

Today, 14:05

The head of the Bairaq Al-Khair bloc, Mohamed Al-Khalidi, said that the President of the Republic will announce today, Monday, his candidacy as a prime minister, instead of resigned to Abdul-Mahdi.

Mohamed Al-Khalidi said, in an interview with “Gilgamesh Press”, that “President Barham Salih will announce today the nomination of a prime minister,” noting that “meetings continue between Saleh and the leaders of political blocs until the moment.”

Al-Khalidi added, “The president of the republic has an independent personality and has an acceptable position to assume the presidency of the next government.”

The new Prime Minister is named today, Monday or Tuesday

An informed political source revealed, Monday, January 20, 2020, the nomination of the Prime Minister, today, Monday, or Tuesday, .as a maximum

The source revealed the meeting of the President of the Republic, Barham Salih, the President of the Victory Coalition, Haider al-Abadi, the President of the Alliance of the Hadi al-Amiri, and the President of the Al-Hikma Movement, Ammar al-Hakim, to resolve the nomination of the candidate for the .position of Prime Minister .

The sources say that the assembled people agree that the candidate must win the approval of the masses of the demonstrations .Protests escalated in Baghdad and the provinces after the constitutional deadline to assign a candidate for prime minister ended .

Totals, roads were cut in front of traffic, and many official circles were closed And Iraqis are waiting for the nomination of the candidate to be far from the choices of consuming or partisan personalities, and that the political forces .give up their privileges and conditions in order to achieve stability and prevent further chaos   link

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