Revealed On 27 Apr 2026
The Iraqi President Nizar Amedi has named Ali al-Zaidi as prime minister-designate, and tasked him with forming a authorities, Al Jazeera’s correspondent in Iraq has reported.
Al-Zaidi was named earlier on Monday because the candidate of the Coordination Framework, a coalition of Shia events that has a majority in parliament.
The selection of al-Zaidi breaks a months-long impasse wherein the US President Donald Trump had himself intervened, after former two-time Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki emerged because the Coordination Framework’s preliminary candidate.
Al-Maliki, who’s near Iran, was fiercely opposed by Trump, who warned that each one help to Iraq would cease if he grew to become prime minister.
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