Al-Maliki's coalition aims towards the Sadrist conservatives, and Al-Sudani is restricted to party c

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[size=52]Al-Maliki's coalition aims towards the Sadrist conservatives, and Al-Sudani is restricted to party candidates[/size]

[size=45]Baghdad / Tamim Al-Hassan[/size]
[size=45]Finally, the State of Law Coalition managed to extract a supposed date from the prime minister to start a series of changes in the positions of governors.[/size]
[size=45]It is assumed that Muhammad al-Sudani, Prime Minister, within a maximum period of 3 months, will resolve the file of the local administrations.[/size]
[size=45]Al-Sudani tried to evade more than once the pressure of the Shiite forces to replace the positions known as “special degrees”, including governors.[/size]
[size=45]State of Law, led by former Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, is expected to get the lion's share in the central and southern governorates.[/size]
[size=45]On the other hand, this measure may accelerate confrontation within the Shiite coordinating framework, which considers that some positions within the quota map have been taken by force.[/size]
[size=45]Also, replacing the governors will open a larger confrontation in the mixed provinces between the Sunni forces, in addition to the Kirkuk crisis.[/size]
[size=45]And Nuri al-Maliki announced in the first television interview after the formation of the government, that there is a tendency for the Sudanese to change the conservatives.[/size]
[size=45]The leader of the State of Law said that the new governors will be distributed according to the electoral dues within a period of two to three months, in agreement with Parliament.[/size]
[size=45]Prime Minister Muhammad al-Sudani took the first steps towards the conservatives in the first week of his assumption of power.[/size]
[size=45]Al-Sudani canceled the assignment of 4 governors who were appointed during the caretaker period during the previous government, before retracting two of them.[/size]
[size=45]The Prime Minister had set a timetable to start changing the positions known as "special grades", which are estimated at more than 10,000 positions.[/size]
[size=45]However, according to what is leaking from the closed-door discussions, parties in the coordination framework, especially the State of Law, were eager to initiate rapid change.[/size]
[size=45]A former minister talks to (Al-Mada) about supposed quotas for the parties in the positions of governors, and he expects that “the state of law will obtain at least 4 positions in the Shiite governorates, including the capital.”[/size]
[size=45]The parties' enthusiasm for replacing the conservatives comes as part of the preparations for the upcoming local elections, which are supposed to take place next October.[/size]
[size=45]Because of the absence of the provincial councils, which, according to the constitution, were the ones to choose the governors, they will be replaced by a new mechanism similar to what happened in selecting the governors.[/size]
[size=45]Article 122 of the constitution states thirdly: “The governor who is elected by the provincial council is the supreme chief executive in the province, to exercise his powers authorized by the council.”[/size]
[size=45]The judicial authorities had suspended the work of the provincial councils in 2019, in response to the demands of the popular protests at the time.[/size]
[size=45]Regarding the new mechanism, the former minister, who is a leader in a Shiite party and asked not to be identified, says: “The deputies of each province meet and present at least 3 candidates to the prime minister, and he chooses, or he presents names to Parliament.[/size]
[size=45]It is not known yet if the Sudanese will have space in choosing some conservatives away from the parties, as happened in 3 ministers in the last government, namely: Interior, Electricity, and Health, according to Nuri al-Maliki's recent statements.[/size]
[size=45]However, it is known that the prime minister will be governed by electoral weights, and the former minister explains: “There will be a weight for the position, for example, if the governor has a weight of 5 seats, the first deputy 4, the second 3, and general managers such as health, education and investment with 3 seats.”[/size]
[size=45]Accordingly, the former minister expects that "the state of law will win the most conservatives because it has 55 seats and has not used all its points yet."[/size]
[size=45]The latter has so far lost 10 seats after obtaining the Ministry of Sovereignty (Oil), and 5 other points (one point with two seats) for the account of Al-Sudani’s candidacy, which is an equation applied to all the forces of the coordination framework, given that the Prime Minister is the coalition’s candidate and not the candidate of a specific Shiite party.[/size]
[size=45]Al-Maliki's coalition, in its quest for positions, seems to be aiming at the provinces that are run by the Sadrist movement, where Muhammad Al-Saihoud, a representative of the coalition, says in a statement that "there is a tendency to replace the governors who have spent more than 10 years in office."[/size]
[size=45]Here, the Chihud may mean Ali Dawai, the governor of Maysan, who is affiliated with the Sadrist movement, and who assumed the position for the first time after the 2010 elections and still is.[/size]
[size=45]In addition, State of Law may aspire to obtain the position of governor of Dhi Qar, which is also under the Sadrist administration.[/size]
[size=45]Al-Sudani had retracted the assignment of Muhammad Al-Ghazi, the governor of Dhi Qar, and the other Sadrist, Majid Al-Waeli, the governor of Najaf, in a move that was considered flirting with the leader of the movement, Muqtada Al-Sadr.[/size]
[size=45]On the contrary, State of Law is trying to open fronts with the movement, despite al-Maliki's announcement in his recent television interview that he "does not want to quarrel with al-Sadr or anyone else."[/size]
[size=45]And close to al-Sadr leaked information to (al-Mada) about a week ago, about the existence of harassment against Sadrist employees, especially in the Oil Ministry, which is run by al-Maliki's coalition.[/size]
[size=45]Despite this, Hamid Al-Ghazi, Secretary General of the Council of Ministers, and Ihsan Al-Awadi, the senior deputy in the Ministry of Interior, are two prominent Sadrist leaders, who are still in their positions.[/size]
[size=45]Almost certainly, the State of Law will get the position of governor of Karbala, and the current one, Nassif al-Khattabi, may remain within the same coalition.[/size]
[size=45]In the same way, Muhammad Jaber al-Atta may continue as the governor of Baghdad, and he is part of the State of Law coalition.[/size]
[size=45]On the other hand, it is expected that the governor of Basra, Asaad Al-Eidani, will be replaced by another from the Al-Fatah coalition, and the position of the governor of Diwaniyah (Al-Qadisiyah) may go to the same coalition, in addition to the Badr Organization retaining the position of governor of Diyala, which it has run for about 6 years.[/size]
[size=45]It is likely that Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq (Qais al-Khazali) will continue to control the position of governor of Babylon, after he recently snatched the position from the al-Hikma Movement, which had been managing the position by proxy for the past three years.[/size]
[size=45]Last week, al-Sudani assigned Wissam Aslan, who is close to al-Asa'ib, to run the position of governor of Babylon.[/size]
[size=45]The state administration forces (wisdom and the victory coalition) may obtain the position of governor of Wasit, as Jamil al-Mayahi, the current governor, has become close to al-Sadr in the recent elections.[/size]
[size=45]In addition, the differences in the Sunni cities indicate the outbreak of the struggle over the position, especially in Anbar, where an opposition coalition to the party of Parliament Speaker Muhammad al-Halbousi (Taqadum) is preparing to remove the latter's grip on the province.[/size]
[size=45]This coalition, which calls itself the "Unified Anbar Coalition," is led by the Karbouli brothers (Jamal and Muhammad al-Karbouli - the solution party), and it seems that it has understandings with the Azm Alliance, which is the Sunni rival of al-Halbousi, and Khamis al-Khanjar, the leader of the Sovereignty Coalition.[/size]
[size=45]Anbar has been run by Ali Farhan al-Dulaimi on behalf of the Taqaddam Party since 2018, who assumed the position in place of the former conservative Muhammad al-Halbousi after obtaining the position of Speaker of Parliament.[/size]
[size=45]The same group (Azm Alliance) may disagree about the position of the governor of Nineveh, who is close to the Speaker of Parliament, Najm al-Jubouri, the former officer.[/size]
[size=45]Abu Mazen, MP Ahmed al-Jubouri, may claim the position after previous agreements with Azm failed to obtain the position of Minister of Defense, a sovereign position that went to Muthanna al-Samarrai's wing within the same coalition and was obtained by Thabit al-Abbasi, a former deputy from Nineveh.[/size]
[size=45]According to a previous agreement that had been leaked, Abu Mazen would get the position (Minister of Defense) in return for his defection from the Sovereignty Alliance (Al-Halbousi-Khanjar).[/size]
[size=45]Although al-Jubouri obtained the Ministry of Education in return, he also aspires to remain in control of the position of governor of Salah al-Din.[/size]
[size=45]The prime minister had canceled the orders to appoint Ismail al-Halub, who is close to Abu Mazen, to the position of deputy governor, as part of the procedures for canceling the recent caretaker government's decisions.[/size]
[size=45]As for the biggest expected crisis in the file of governors, it is Kirkuk, where the governorate has been run since 2017 by Rakan al-Jubouri, who is an Arab, while it was customary and previous agreements that the position belongs to the Kurds.[/size]
[size=45]The two main Kurdish parties (the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Patriotic Union) must now reach an agreement regarding Kirkuk and the rest of the federal positions and in the region.[/size]
[size=45]So far, the statements of the two parties indicate that they have not reached an agreement, which basically impedes resolving the names of the ministers of construction and environment, which are positions that are supposed to belong to the Kurds.[/size]
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