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| Iraqi PM-designate will win confidence vote only if US-led troops’ withdrawal guaranteed: Fatah coalition |
| 2020-03-18 |
| [PRESSTV] A powerful political coalition in Iraq’s parliament says it will give a vote of confidence to premier-designate Adnan Zurfi and support his efforts to form a government only if the 54-year-old politician and the ex-governor of the holy city of Najaf ensures the withdrawal of US-led forces from the country. Karim Alaiwi, a politician from the Fatah (Conquest) alliance and a member of the Security and Defense Committee in the Iraqi legislature, told Arabic-language al-Maalomah news agency on Tuesday that Zurfi has a difficult path ahead of himself as he wants to pick the ministers. Alaiwi emphasized that his political coalition and all allied factions will endorse the premier-designate provided that he ensures the exit of foreign troops, including American ones, from Iraq in the next government’s vision plan as demanded by parliamentary legislation passed earlier this year. Related: Adnan Zurfi: 2004-08-08 Details About Failed Attempt to Arrest Sadr Adnan Zurfi: 2004-05-06 U.S. Seizes Najaf Governor’s House, Kills 41 Militiamen Related: Najaf: 2020-03-15 Mourners carry coffins of #Iraqi Federal police officers who were killed by U.S. airstrike, during a funeral in Najaf Najaf: 2020-03-13 American assault occurred via an aerial bombardment on the areas of Jurf al-Nasr, al-Musayyib, Najaf, Alexandria Najaf: 2020-03-13 US carrying out retaliatory strikes in #Iraq in response to a rocket attack on Wednesday that killed two US troops and a British service member |
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