Shafaq News- Erbil

Kurdish Prime Minister Masrour Barzani welcomed Ali Al-Zaidi’s designation to form Iraq’s new government, speaking with him by phone on Tuesday.

Barzani expressed hope that Iraq would enter “a new era marked by security, stability, and peace,” pledging support to resolve disputes between Erbil and Baghdad under the constitution.

Earlier, Iraqi President Nizar Amedi formally tasked Coordination Framework (CF) nominee Ali Al-Zaidi with forming a new government after the bloc, which holds about 162 of parliament’s 329 seats, selected him following the withdrawal of State of Law leader Nouri Al-Maliki and caretaker Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani, head of the Reconstruction and Development Coalition (Al-Ima'ar wal-Tanmiya).

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