Iraqi Parliament Fails Again to Vote on New Cabinet
Iraq’s parliament failed to vote Tuesday on a cabinet proposed by Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, deepening a months long political crisis that has tested the premier’s leadership. Kurdish political parties joined an influential Sunni Muslim bloc and followers of the radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr in staying away from parliament. A simple majority of the […]Asa Fitch and Ghassan Adnan write for The Wall Street Journal:
Iraq’s parliament failed to vote Tuesday on a cabinet proposed by Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, deepening a months long political crisis that has tested the premier’s leadership.
Kurdish political parties joined an influential Sunni Muslim bloc and followers of the radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr in staying away from parliament. A simple majority of the 328-member body—or 165 lawmakers—was needed to conduct a vote.
“We don’t know where this country is heading,” said Aziz Khadhum Alwan, a Shiite Muslim lawmaker who arrived Tuesday at the parliament building in the capital Baghdad only to find it nearly empty.
