INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
2022-12-14T13:16:21.000000Z Share fontEnable Reading ModeA-AA+Shafaq News/ Iraq's Supreme Federal Court will be looking into a motion to
annul the nomination of Mohammad Shia al-Sudani for the premiership early in 2023, a leaked document showed on Wednesday.On October 27,
Iraqi lawmakers approved a new government ending more than a year of deadlock
Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani,52, who previously served as Iraq's human rights minister as well as minister of labour and social
affairs, heads the new government
Sudani vowed to reform the economy, fight corruption, improve deteriorating public services, combat poverty and unemployment among other
things.He also promised to amend the election law within three months and hold early parliamentary elections within a year."The endemic of
corruption that has affected all aspects of life is more deadly than the corona pandemic and has been the cause of many economic problems,
weakening the state's authority, increasing poverty, unemployment, and poor public services," Sudani said in his speech in parliament ahead
of the vote.Al-Sudani is the nominee of the largest parliamentary bloc known as the Coordination Framework, an alliance of Iran-aligned
He took over from former Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi, who led a caretaker government, after anti-government protesters took to the
streets in their thousands in 2019, demanding jobs and the departure of Iraq's ruling elite.Al-Sudani's nomination has been vehemently
rejected by powerful Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr, whose bloc was the biggest winner in last year's election but later withdrew from the
parliament due to its inability to form a government.Al-Sudani's nomination by the Coordination Framework on July 25 had sparked some of the
largest protests in the capital Baghdad since last year’s election, with al-Sadr supporters breaching the heavily fortified Green Zone in
Baghdad and storming the country's parliament to demand the withdrawal of al-Sudani's nomination
