Al-Abadi distances himself from the ongoing premiership conflicts 

Shafaq News / The head of Nasr coalition, and member of the Coordination Framework, Haidar al-Abadi, distanced himself from the premiership file, calling for reaching a "constitutional political agreement".

Al-Abadi said in a statement, "we support holding talks between all political parties in order to end the impasse", adding that there are no updates yet regarding the premiership candidate file, and denied news about him taking positions from the file.

"Al-Abadi's initiatives always stress the need to adopt the right path to address the crisis, despite the candidate for premiership", the statement noted, emphasizing the importance of reaching a settlement to end the impasse.

Reliable political sources revealed that serious conflicts have erupted between the members of the Coordination Framework over the future premiership candidate. 

The sources told Shafaq News agency that Hadi al-Ameri and Haidar al-Abadi tend to approve the candidacy of Mustafa al-Kadhimi as Prime Minister for a second mandate that would not last for more than a year, to prevent the Sadrists from escalating the situation.

However, Nouri al-Maliki, Qais al-Khazali, and Ammar al-Hakim insist on nominating Mohammed Shiya'a al-Sudani for the premiership, which borned serious disagreements in the Framework, and prompted al-Abadi to threaten to withdraw from the alliance in case his position was ignored.

A political crisis in Iraq that began after an election in October brought violence onto the streets with the worst clashes the country has seen in years.

Armed supporters of Sadr exchanged machine gun and rocket fire with government forces and militant groups backed by Iran at the end of August after Sadr quit politics and let protesters storm government buildings.