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Bayati: Abadi, will present the cabinet reshuffle during the next two weeks
BAGHDAD / .. confirmed the National Alliance member Abbas al-Bayati, Sunday, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi will present his cabinet during the next two weeks, pointing to the need for concerted everyone to bring about significant reforms.
He said al-Bayati told the “eye Iraq News” that the coming stage will witness the emergence of government rise to the level of ambition in making reforms.
And on meetings between political blocs, al-Bayati said “the ongoing meetings between the political parties is witnessing remarkable progress and positive in many ways.”
He pointed out that “things were going quite smoothly and most of the political blocs if it were not most of them have agreed to support Mr. Abadi in his reforms.
This held the leaders of political blocs and parties affiliated to the National Alliance expanded meeting included the cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and President of the Council Ammar al-Hakim and Prime Minister al-Abadi and the Secretary of the Virtue Party Hashem al-Hashemi and Ali Keywords leader of the state of law in the city of Karbala to discuss the paper Alebadi.anthy.m.g reforms
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Don961: Iraq PM Abadi secures Shi’ite support for cabinet change plan: state TV
BAGHDAD
Iraq’s main Shi’ite groups on Sunday voiced support for Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi’s plan to overhaul the government and combat corruption, state TV said.
The broadcaster cited a statement issued by the National Alliance, a loose gathering of Shi’ite groups that controls the majority of seats in parliament, after a meeting with Abadi in the Shiite holy city of Kerbala, south of Baghdad. The other blocs in parliament mainly represent the Sunni and Kurdish communities. Abadi, 19 months into his four-year term, said in February that he wanted to replace politically-appointed ministers with technocrats in a bid to weaken the current system which distributes positions along ethnic and sectarian lines, creating patronage networks blamed for breeding corruption.
Abadi’s move came after criticism from the nation’s highest Shi’ite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, that his government has done little to combat graft. “The National Alliance affirms its position of support of the reforms and ministerial change that the Prime Minister has called for,” the statement read on state TV said.
The Shi’ite meeting in Kerbala was attended by Moqtada al-Sadr, the powerful cleric who called on Friday for the government to be overthrown if it failed to act against corruption, according to state TV.
Sadr, whose opinion holds sway over tens of thousands of people, including fighters who took on U.S. troops in 2006-07, had threatened to break into the heavily-fortified Green Zone that houses main government buildings, the parliament and foreign embassies.Representatives of Abadi’s ruling Dawa party and Ammar al-Hakim, the leader of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq were also present at the Kerbala meeting, according to state TV.
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