Political blocs agree on Interior and Planning portfolios candidates

[tjmunson]

Political blocs agree on Interior and Planning portfolios candidates, MP

Saturday, April 2nd 2011 12:23 PM

Baghdad, April 2 (AKnews) – The political blocs in the Iraqi parliament have finally agreed on candidates for two key government positions, the ministries of the interior and planning, after months of disputes.

The new Iraqi cabinet was sworn in December incompletely due to disputes over the security-related ministries. According to the political agreements, the Iraqiya list had the right to hold the Defense Ministry, while the National Coalition (NC) led by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki will hold the Ministries of the Interior and National Security.

“The political blocs have resolved their positions about a vote on the candidates for the planning ministry and the interior ministry whom Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki submitted to the parliament (last week),” said Amir al-Kinani and Iraqi parliament in the NC bloc led by Maliki.

Maliki submitted last week to the Iraqi parliament the résumés of Ibrahim Mohammed al-Lami, Khalid Motab al-Obeidi and Ali Yousef Abd al-Nabi for the portfolios of the Interior, Defense and Planning respectively.

But al-Obeidi, a candidate from the al-Iraqiya list, seems to not have gained the support of the political blocs for the position of the Defense Minister. Al-Iraqiya list now has to put forward another candidate to the PM.

The only problem hampering the vote on the candidates, according to Kinani, is the defense ministry candidate whose candidacy was withdrawn by the al-Iraqiya list – which has the right to hold the ministerial portfolio as a result of a power-sharing deal between the blocs.

The political blocs are now waiting for the al-Iraqiya to resolves its position by either retaining al-Obeidi or put forward another in his place.

http://www.aknews.co...knews/4/228978/

[kinglizzy99]

good news...thanks TJ!

[BanG]

TJ you da man! Finally the gravity of these positions are hitting home and actions are being taken to protect the Iraqi people as well as the GOI. +1 for the find TJ and thanks for bringing real News to us all. Peace.