{"id":56492,"date":"2019-12-27T15:19:59","date_gmt":"2019-12-27T07:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=56492"},"modified":"2019-12-27T15:22:21","modified_gmt":"2019-12-27T07:22:21","slug":"iraqi-president-ready-to-resign-amid-political-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=56492","title":{"rendered":"Iraqi President Ready To Resign Amid Political Row"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BAGHDAD, Dec 27 (NNN-NINA) &#8211; Iraqi President, Barham Salih, expressed his readiness to submit his resignation to parliament, after he refused to appoint the candidate, Asad al-Eidani, as prime minister-designate, the Iraqi official television reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a letter sent to Parliament Speaker, Mohammed al-Halbousi, Salih rejected the nomination of al-Eidani, by the Building coalition, formed by some winning blocs, after the 2018 parliamentary elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the letter, published by some local media, Salih said, his position on the current nomination &#8220;may be considered a violation of the constitutional text,&#8221; so he was ready to resign from the post of the president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Salih also said, the nomination of al-Eidani was not welcomed by the protesters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Political and parliamentary moves must always reflect the public will, meet the requirements of social security and peace, while providing good governance, in line with people&#8217;s aspirations and sacrifices, Salih said in his letter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Iraqi constitution, the largest coalition in parliament should nominate a candidate for the vacant post to President Barham Salih, who will task the new prime minister-designate to form a cabinet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Salih&#8217;s letter came amid a political row over who would be chosen as a new prime minister-designate to form an interim government ahead of early elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mass demonstrations in parts of Iraq led to the resignation of Abdul Mahdi and his government.&#8211; NNN-NINA <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BAGHDAD, Dec 27 (NNN-NINA) &#8211; Iraqi President, Barham Salih, expressed his readiness to submit his resignation to parliament, after he refused to appoint the candidate, Asad al-Eidani, as prime minister-designate, the Iraqi official television reported. In a letter sent to Parliament Speaker, Mohammed al-Halbousi, Salih rejected the nomination of al-Eidani, by the Building coalition, formed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":56499,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[217,194],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56492"}],"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=56492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}