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dy allocated moreover there are few empty ministries of state with no other purpose than placating particular party interests kurds have improved their representation in the cabinet significantly and the alignment of personnel to ministries is also more in harmony with the wishes of the kurdish parties it can be said that through these additions the iraqi parliament has realistically done what it can in the short term to help the iraqi cabinet achieve a more solid platform for its battle against isis major legislative acts such as de baathification reform a senate law and an oil and gas law will continue to remain on the agenda for a long time probably with no realistic prospects for early solution but it will now be the job of the cabinet and the new security ministers above all to lead the iraqi effort in combating the challenge of the islamic state on the ground in iraq to the extent that there is a remaining parliamentary role in the short term it relates to approval of a draft law for so called national guard units that may be formed to supplement the iraqi army particularly in sunni majority provinces posted in iraq parliamentary elections 2014 8 comments the controversial kurdish ministers in the new iraqi cabinet posted by reidar visser on friday 17 october 2014 22 07 iraqi news reports and public controversy regarding the kurdish ministers in the new iraqi government of haydar al abbadi that was seated last september have brought to the fore some of the key issues in iraqi political culture and behavior in the post 2003 period in several kurdish statements as well as in press reports that uncritically reproduced those statements one can get the impression that kurdish politicians who were unhappy with the way portfolios were distributed to individual kurdish ministers back in september think they have the right to conduct some sort of private reshuffle moving individual kurdish politicians between ministries in accordance with their preferences and ideas about which positions fit which individuals better it has been maintained that abbadi did not sufficiently consult with the kurdish parties in making his nominations before parliament and there is a desire for change of several key ministries in particular the kurds are insistent that hosyhar zebari the previous foreign minister should be finance minister rather than deputy pm whereas rosch shaways should continue to hold that deputy premiership the kurdish view has been that the swap between those positions could be executed as soon as there was internal kurdish agreement behind the decision of course from the constitutional point of view what the kurdish parties may think about the allocation of kurdish politicians to ministries is subordinated to the will of the iraqi parliament as expressed in the vote on the abbadi government in september constitutionally it is immaterial what kurdish parties or the kurdish regional president masud barzani may think about the issue parliament has already expressed its will and if there are to be changes these will have to be voted on the only reason there is a legal loophole for making such changes at all without first going through the formal process of dismissing ministers already voted into their jobs is that the kurdish ministers have refrained from formally taking the oath as ministers in the new cabinet before parliament accordingly before any swearing in of kurdish ministers as per the new allocation preferred by the kurds themselves can take place a proper vote in the iraqi parliament on their candidacies must be conducted whether a majority for such a vote is realistic remains an open question true one could expect such support for new kurdish ministers to materialize as part of the general agreement between all the leading iraqi factions that led to the formation of the abbadi government in the first place however it is noteworthy that voting patterns on the individual ministers back in september featured several protest abstentions and many ministers failed to reach the symbolically important absolute majority mark of 165 the iraqi supreme court has insisted that an absolute majority means a an absolute majority of the total members of the assembly only in those cases where this is expressly mentioned and therefore an absolute majority of mps present is enough for minister approval accordingly the kurdish bloc itself does not have sufficient votes to pass these ministers without the active support of at least some of the non kurdish blocs in the iraqi parliament with security ministers still not appointed and indications there may be ministers of state added one of the reported new kurdish ministers is just an unnamed minister of state to be given to members of a kurdish islamist party the new abbadi government is structurally looking more and more like the second maliki cabinet it is true that the abbadi government formation process looked cleaner on the surface with no intangible strategic policy council and no mysterious erbil agreement but if there is a multiplication in coming weeks of numbers of ministers with no other purposes than satisfying particular political party interests some of the assumed differences between abbadi s and maliki s cabinets could soon get blurred the kurdish stance on its ministers too is reflective of the culture of consociated democacy that has crystallized in iraq since 2003 essentially the kurds think they wield sovereignty within their allotted quota of ministerial seats that is not a view that is supported by the iraqi constitution and one that will be put to the test when the iraqi parliament gets together to tackle these issues in coming days a forthcoming decision on saturday has been expected but so far there is no formal agenda on the parliament website what is clear in any case is that any new kurdish ministers must be voted on before they can complete the formality of swearing in posted in iraqi constitutional issues comments off on the controversial kurdish ministers in the new iraqi cabinet the iraqi parliament fails to approve new security ministers posted by reidar visser on tuesday 16 september 2014 18 35 new iraq pm haydar al abbadi kept his promise to present ministerial candidates for portfolios not included in the recent vote on his new cabinet but the iraqi parliament proved uncooperative as a result only one minister for water management was approved in today s session crucially all key security ministries remain vacant the most contentious nominations related to the defence and interior ministries with respect to defence the name of jabir al jabiri an anbar politician with considerable popular backing and past ties to the former finance minister rafe al isawi has recurred for some time as the nominee of the sunni coalition in parliament conversely it was something of a surprise that riyad ghrayb a shiite chameleon who has gone from a past with isci to the state of law bloc and the faction of hussein al shahristani was put forward in the last minute before that it had largely been thought that badr would present a candidate even after their original nominee hadi al ameri was found by most other parties to be too unpalatable in such a sensitive position as late as yesterday a modification of the badr proposal was presented in the shape of independents that might be acceptable to badr such as ahmad chalabi and qasim dawud today the shiite alliance held a last minute meeting before the parliament session without being able to agree internally on a candidate there are regional and international dimensions involved too it has been suggested that the iraq interior ministry struggle is a reflection of the contradictive relationship between the united states and iran in the region as a whole with iran backing badr candidates in iraq and the united states finally in possession of some real leverage because of the isis threat and iraqi requests for american military assistance and tacitly in alliance with iran against isis strongly objecting to this it is noteworthy that during the parliament session today abbadi implored the chamber to approve the nominees whereas parliamentarians of the shiite alliance whom abbadi himself represents voiced opposition to a vote saying the interior minister at least should be internally approved in the shiite alliance first deputy speaker humam al hammudi of isci at one point tried to stop the vote according to the official parliamentary record whereas the voting record hasn t been tied down to individual mps or even parties the patterns suggest that parts of the shiite alliance may have voted no and possibly that there was a revenge no in the vote on the state of law nominee for tourism ali al adib interior minister riyad ghrayb got 117 out of 245 votes jabir al jabiri 108 out of 251 and ali al adib got only 78 out of 250 votes by way of contrast a sadrist nominee for the water ministry was approved with a more resounding 162 out of 250 votes altogether 285 mps were in attendance probably a reflection of the realization that a simple majority could have settled the matter of the security ministers and have them approved if those who were against jabiri and ghrayb had simply absented themselves parliament adjourned until thursday 18 september but it is unclear whether abbadi will come up with new nominees by then it cannot be stressed enough that these final components of the abbadi cabinet are among the most important decisions relating to the new iraqi government as a whole and as such far more significant than the plethora of international gatherings that are currently going on in the name of defeating isis in iraq experiences from yemen suggest that airstrikes will eventually hit someone that shouldn t have been hit in that kind of context only a durable political coalition in baghdad can prevent the situation from fragmenting completely the absence of agreement on security ministers was a key reason the second maliki government remained so shaky throughout its term and it is likely this issue more than anything else that will seal the fate of the new so far partial government put in place by haydar al abbadi posted in iraq parliamentary elections 2014 7 comments the iraqi parliament approves the abbadi cabinet posted by reidar visser on tuesday 9 september 2014 1 40 the new iraqi cabinet headed by haydar al abbadi has been approved by the iraqi parliament abbadi has 3 deputies and 23 ministers with some portfolios still not named the programme of the new cabinet approved by 177 votes is very general still it goes further than past governments in terms of underlining the need for decentralization as well as implementing reform in the iraqi armed forces all of this seems to represent recognition of past failures which at least constitutes a good first step it seems clear though that no major promises have been issued along the lines of the pompous erbil agreement of 2010 in itself perhaps not a bad thing also the timing of the whole process is admirable for the first time entirely consistent with the iraqi constitution in terms of ministries shiite islamist parties have taken the lion s share including several particularly important portfolios these include ibrahim al jaafari as foreign minister and adel abd al mahdi of isci as oil minister in addition to the premiership the state of law bloc of former pm maliki also has the portfolios of health education and work fadila continues to control the ministry of justice whereas isci was awarded additional ministries badr and the sadrists seem to have only two each though the sadrists also control one of the three deputy premier positions badr was at one point on the verge of boycotting the entire session after they were denied the interior ministry portfolio as in previous government formations the pm kept these portfolios for himself though promising to present candidates within a week sunni and secular representation is largely by individuals affiliated with the broad coalition associated with current parliament speaker salim al jibburi and previous speaker usama al nujayfi together they hold around 7 ministries all of them service oriented plus saleh al mutlak as deputy pm the movement of previous iraqiyya leader ayyad allawi which has remained separate does not seem to have more than one portfolio as in previous government deals the kurds have a relatively low number of portfolios around 3 but these include the heavyweight ministry of finance they also have one deputy pm as before a separate chapter relates to three vice presidents approved today as part of the package the iraqi presidency proper is a mostly symbolic position whose main responsibilities largely end with the successful formation of a new government the vice presidents have even less power and it is an ironic sight to now have three major players in the previous term nuri al maliki ayad allawi and usama al nujayfi in these sinecure like positions on a legal and constitutional note parliament speaker jibburi made it clear during the vote that he intends to follow a supreme court ruling that says absolute majority in the iraqi constitution means absolute majority of those present as long as absolute majority of parliament membership is not expressly mentioned after the new deputy premier saleh al mutlak got less than an absolute majority of the total members jibburi simply stopped specifying the exact number of votes received only referring to the fulfilment of a majority of those present exactly like in the sessions to vote for parliament speaker and his deputies though the votes that were counted including the approval of the government programme were in the range of 140 180 yes votes out of altogether 289 mps reportedly present this seems to indicate that whereas all blocs may have supported their candidates and made a strategic decision to be inside the government wholehearted enthusiasm is still not widespread the international community has largely welcomed the new government as somehow being more inclusive than past ones this is largely inaccurate as far as ministerial appointments are concerned the ethno sectarian balance which seems to be the prime interest to these commentators remains largely the same as in the maliki ii government security portfolios remain unoccupied those who care about sectarian balances will also note that the sunnis have lost the sole sovereign ministry they held finance now held by the kurds what has improved somewhat though is the size of the government it has been reduced in size by at least 25 compared with past governments as well as the political language emphasizing the need for reform to what extent abbadi means business will be seen over the coming week when candidates for the key positions of defence and interior ministers have been promised maliki in 2010 also issued such promises only to keep the portfolios for himself or close friends 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