The tripartite alliance is cohesive: Al-Sadr and "Sovereignty" support Reber Ahmed for the presidenc

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[size=52]The tripartite alliance is cohesive: Al-Sadr and "Sovereignty" support Reber Ahmed for the presidency of Iraq[/size]

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Al-Sadr insists on rejecting Nouri al-Maliki's participation in the government (AFP)

[size=45]Three well-informed Iraqi political sources in Erbil and Baghdad said, "The Sadrist Movement" led by Muqtada al-Sadr, and the "Sovereignty" alliance (which includes the Azm and Progress movements led by Khamis al-Khanjar) have agreed to support  [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] , the Minister of Interior in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Reaper Ahmed Khaled, for the position of the Presidency of the Republic.[/size]
[size=45]Reber Ahmed Khaled was presented by the ruling party in Erbil, in place of former Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, after the Federal Supreme Court's decision to  [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] due to  complaints of corruption and waste of public money during his ministerial position between 2004 and 2014.[/size]

[size=45]This comes despite  [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]  the Federal Court in the political crisis, following a new lawsuit filed by deputies regarding the constitutionality of Parliament's decision to reopen the nomination for the presidency again. The advocates accuse Parliament Speaker Muhammad al-Halbousi and his two deputies, Hakim al-Zamili and Shakhwan Abdullah, of violating the constitution, to help the Kurdistan Democratic Party led by Massoud Barzani provide a new alternative to the presidency, after Zebari was removed.[/size]

[size=45]The leader of the Iranian "Quds Force" Esmail Qaani left Iraq without making progress in the dispute over forming a government[/size]

[size=45]The Federal Court in Baghdad, which is the highest judicial authority in the country, has not provided any clarifications so far about whether or not it accepted the complaint to challenge the parliament's decision to open the door for candidacy again for the presidency.[/size]

[size=31]Qaani leaves Baghdad without progressing the government file[/size]

[size=45]In Baghdad, Al-Araby Al-Jadeed obtained leaks confirming that the leader of the Iranian “Quds Force” Ismail Qaani had left the country since the first of yesterday, Tuesday,  [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]  clear progress in the dispute between the forces of the “coordinating framework” on the one hand, and the “Sadr movement.” On the other hand, related to the formation of the new government.[/size]
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[size=45]A member of the "Coordination Framework" told Al-Araby Al-Jadeed that "Hajj Qaani left Iraq on Tuesday," referring to the leader of the Iranian "Quds Force", where political forces allied to Tehran use the phrase "Hajj Qaani" on the Iranian general, in the context of granting him Unofficial description of his current moves.[/size]
[size=45]The source added, asking not to be named, that the leader of the "Sadr movement" Muqtada al-Sadr, "is still insisting on removing (former Iraqi Prime Minister) Nuri al-Maliki from the next political scene." The source pointed out that al-Sadr "sent a message that he prefers to go to the opposition than to be in one government with al-Maliki."[/size]
[size=45]The source said: “We know that any government will not last for one year, if al-Sadr is outside it and will move the street against it and work to thwart it, and the opposite is also true, as no part of the coordination framework should be excluded, because its weight is not the number of seats it has in Parliament. ", According to him.[/size]
[size=45]In response to a question about whether Qaani’s departure means stopping the negotiations, the member of the “coordination framework” replied in the negative, noting that “the efforts are continuing, and the Iranian role is important and continuous in resolving the crisis because of its position among the various political forces, and not just Shiites as it is trying to Some filmed it for known purposes,” he said.[/size]

[size=31]The Sadrist Alliance supports Reber Ahmed for the presidency[/size]

[size=45]On the other hand, three sources in Baghdad and Erbil confirmed the agreement of the three allied forces (the Sadrist movement, the Alliance of Sovereignty, and the Kurdistan Democratic Party) to support the new candidate, Reber Ahmed, for the presidency.[/size]

[size=45]Mishaan Al-Jubouri: Reaper Ahmed has a clean record, and no obstacles stand in the way of his victory[/size]

[size=45]A member of the Sadrist movement in the capital, Baghdad, told Al-Araby Al-Jadeed that they would support the alternative candidate (Reber Ahmed), as they had previously supported Hoshyar Zebari's candidacy, adding that "the Sadrist movement and the Sovereignty Alliance hope for a Kurdish consensus on one candidate, but this It hasn't happened yet.”[/size]
[size=45]The source explained that "the Kurdistan Union insists on renewing another term for the current president, Barham Salih, and we heard that he wants a deal that includes positions in the Kurdistan region and abroad in exchange for him giving up the presidency, and we do not know the accuracy of that, but we are committed to our pledges."[/size]
[size=45]The new candidate, Reber Ahmed Khaled, belongs to the Barzani family, and is defined by the Kurdistan Democratic Party, as the only survivor of his family in an attack by Iraqi forces during what was known as the “Anfal campaign” in 1988, which was led by Saddam Hussein’s regime in northern Iraq. Reber Ahmed held several security positions, including his current position as Minister of Interior in the Kurdistan Regional Government.[/size]
[size=45]In turn, the Iraqi MP and a leader in the "Sovereignty" coalition, Mishaan al-Jubouri, confirmed to "The New Arab", that "the political entities that agree on the project of the national majority government will vote for the Kurdistan Democratic Party candidate, Reber Ahmed, after Hoshyar Zebari was prevented by a judicial decision, and there is support Of these parties to nominate him and push him for the position, except for the losers in the elections that want to return in Iraq to the governments of weak consensus.”[/size]
[size=45]Al-Jubouri indicated that "the position of the President of the Republic, according to the government of the national majority, is settled for the Kurdistan Democratic Party, and the party has presented a candidate (Reber Ahmed), who is from the Kurdistan Democratic Youth, and his record is clean and there are no obstacles that he may face in order to win the position."[/size]

[size=45]Mahmoud Khoshnaw: The political understandings between the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan and the rest of the entities are continuing[/size]

[size=45]For his part, the former advisor in the Kurdistan Region Presidency, Kifah Mahmoud, pointed out, in a call with "Al-Araby Al-Jadeed" from the city of Erbil, that the candidate, Reber Ahmed, "has good military relations with the security leaders in Baghdad, in addition to his extensive foreign relations, and he is a balanced personality." It is of great interest to the Sadrists and the Sunni alliance at present.”[/size]
[size=45]Mahmoud reminded that "the parties allied to form a government of the national majority announced their support for the Kurdistan Democratic Party's candidate for the presidency of the Iraqi state." However, he pointed out that “the conflict is still raging with the coordination framework, which wants to disrupt the process of selecting the president of the republic in any way, to the extent that it has threatened to follow the blocking third mechanism in Parliament, to ensure that the president of the republic is not passed.”[/size]
[size=45]The former advisor in the Kurdistan Region Presidency considered that “the concerns of the coordination framework are not from the new president of the republic, but rather from his authority to choose the head of government in the next stage, who may threaten the interests of the armed factions and limit their dominance, closing economic offices and opening corruption files involved in them.” .[/size]
[size=45]But a member of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, Mahmoud Khoshnaw, pointed out that “the policy of breaking the bone and transgressing the political custom in Iraq, and Kurdish political agreements regarding positions, are rejected,” adding that “talking about political agreements regarding passing the Kurdistan Democratic Party candidate is still not It is logical, because the political understandings between the National Union and the rest of the entities are continuing.”[/size]
[size=45]Khoshnaw confirmed to Al-Araby Al-Jadeed that "the President of the Republic, Barham Salih, is still the only candidate, and it is the political weight of our candidate and our party that will impose itself on the rest of the parties and their dealings with us."[/size]

[size=31]Presidential election session: a new disruption?[/size]

[size=45]The forces of the "coordinating framework", which includes the Shiite forces that lost in the elections, are heading to disrupt the session to choose the president of the republic, according to the leader in the "coordination framework" Muhammad Mahdi al-Bayati, who confirmed this in press statements, noting that "the blocking third in parliament will have a key role in preventing Nominate the president of the republic, as they (meaning the majority coalition) cannot elect the president without this third, just as they do not have two-thirds of the parliament in which they can escort the president whose passage needs more than 220 members.”[/size]
[size=45]Although the political dialogues in the past two days about the position of President of the Republic were limited to the names of Barham Salih and Reber Ahmed, there are new candidates who have entered the competition arena. The Iraqi parliament confirmed that the number of candidates for the post of President of the Republic  [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] , after the nomination was opened again last week, while no date has been set for electing the president.[/size]
[size=45]The office of the Presidency of the Republic in Iraq does not have any executive powers, according to the constitution approved in 2005 by a popular referendum, nearly two years after the US invasion. The constitution limited the executive powers entirely to the head of government. In return, the President of the Republic was given ceremonial tasks, such as signing republican decrees, imitating decorations and medals, presenting proposals for laws and legislation, and representing Iraq in international forums.[/size]
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