This comes after Jabouri won an absolute majority of votes from deputies. He was nominated by the country's main Sunni political coalition. Live television footage broadcast from inside the parliamentary chamber showed the 43-year-old being congratulated by other deputies.
The Iraqi legislative body resumed discussions to elect candidates for the country's three top posts today. After the election of the parliament speaker, politicians are now trying to pick the next prime minister and president.
This is the third time the parliament has convened after failing to form a unity government in the two previous sessions.
The politicians have been urged by top religious and political figures to put aside their differences and form a new government. Under a de facto agreement among communities in Iraq, the prime minister is a Shia Arab, the president a Kurd, and the parliament speaker a Sunni Arab.
Prime Minister
Nouri al-Maliki... Prime Minister of Iraq and the secretary-general of the Islamic Dawa Party. Maliki imposed order on Basra wen the Shiites were going nuts, but has proven incapable of dealing with al-Qaeda's Sunni insurgency. Reelected to his third term in 2014...
has rejected recent calls by the United States and its allies to form an emergency administration or a so-called national salvation government.