{"id":45780,"date":"2019-10-11T09:54:05","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T01:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=45780"},"modified":"2019-10-11T09:57:08","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T01:57:08","slug":"iraqi-parliament-names-two-ministers-within-promised-reforms-in-response-to-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=45780","title":{"rendered":"Iraqi Parliament Names Two Ministers Within Promised Reforms In Response To Protests"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BAGHDAD, Oct 11 (NNN-NINA) &#8211; The Iraqi parliament voted to name two of the five ministers, presented by Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi, as part of a cabinet reshuffle within promised reforms, in response to protests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The state-run al-Iraqiya channel said that, in a session chaired by Speaker Mohammed al-Halbousi, and attended by 220 lawmakers, the parliament voted for Suha Khalil as Minister of Education and Jaafar Sadiq Allawi as new Health Minister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lawmakers also voted to accept the resignation of former Health Minister, Alaa al-Alwan, who submitted his resignation a month ago to Abdul Mahdi, over what he said political pressures hindering his work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last week, thousands of Iraqis took to the streets of Baghdad and other Iraqi provinces, to voice their anger amid deteriorating living standards and absence of improvement in public services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, violence accompanied the nationwide unrest, leaving over 100 people dead and over 6,000 wounded, according to a spokesman for the Ministry of Interior.&#8211; NNN-NINA  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BAGHDAD, Oct 11 (NNN-NINA) &#8211; The Iraqi parliament voted to name two of the five ministers, presented by Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi, as part of a cabinet reshuffle within promised reforms, in response to protests. The state-run al-Iraqiya channel said that, in a session chaired by Speaker Mohammed al-Halbousi, and attended by 220 lawmakers, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":45784,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[300,286,217,194],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45780"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}