Shafaq News- Baghdad
Parliament Speaker Haibat Al-Halbousi on Saturday gave Iraq’s largest parliamentary bloc, the Shiite Coordination Framework, 15 days to nominate a prime minister following the election of new President Nizar Amedi.
Amedi secured 227 votes in a second-round runoff after no candidate met the two-thirds threshold in the initial vote. A senior Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) leader and former environment minister, Amedi has held multiple senior roles within Iraq’s presidency since 2005, including chief of staff to three presidents, and currently serves in the State Administration Coalition.