The first step in electing the Prime Minister of Iraq; Larger factions are forming soon.
A representative of the Iraqi Sadeghun faction announced that a number of independent representatives have joined the Patriotic Coalition, which will form the largest Shiite faction in the Iraqi parliament.
Rafiq al-Salehi, a representative of Iraq’s Sadeghun parliamentary faction, announced Saturday that the Patriotic Coalition will be the largest faction in parliament.
The formation of a larger faction in the Iraqi parliament is important because it has the right to nominate a prime ministerial candidate for the presidency of Iraq and then form a new government.
Hamid al-Musawi, a member of the Al-Fatah parliamentary coalition led by Hadi al-Amiri, announced in late February that groups in the Shiite Coordinating Committee known as Al-Attar Al-Tansaqi (Coordination Framework) intended to form a Patriotic Coalition.
Al-Ahd News Network reported, quoting a representative of the Sadeghun faction, that the Patriotic Stability Coalition is expected to formally announce its existence in the next few days. He announced that the coalition would include factions of the Coordination Framework and a number of independent representatives.
Al-Salehi noted that a large number of independent delegates have joined the coalition, and that efforts are underway to attract more delegates. He stressed that al-Thabat al-Watani will currently be the largest Shiite faction in the Iraqi parliament and will traditionally have the right to form a cabinet.
Hamid al-Moussawi has previously announced that the coordination framework will include independent representatives in his coalition; In a way, 18 representatives from the “Patriotic Union” will join this new coalition.
In the end, the Iraqi representative stressed that the Sadr faction, led by Muqtada al-Sadr, is left alone, leaving out some of the factions present within the framework of coordination.
During the recent elections, the Sadr faction in Iraq won 73 of the 329 seats in parliament, followed by the Sunni Coalition with 37 seats and the State of Law Coalition with 33 seats, the Iraqi Kurdistan Democratic Party with 31 seats. Kurdistan and the Fatah coalition led by Hadi al-Amiri came in second with 17 seats.