Al-Kazemi and the parties: are the appointments the first sparks of the confrontation?

Baghdad | A few days ago, Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi issued a decision to appoint various faces and personalities to “some important administrative positions in state institutions,” according to the statement issued by his media office. Among the most prominent of those sites, whose leaks indicate that they reached 15 sites: the Governor of the Central Bank (Mustafa Ghaleb), the Deputy Secretary for Operational Affairs of the National Intelligence Service (Khaled Al-Obeidi, former Minister of Defense), the Mayor from the capital Baghdad (Manhal Al-Haboubi), and the head of the Hajj and Umrah Authority. (Sami Al-Masoudi, a prominent leader of the Al-Fateh Alliance).

These changes angered many opposing political forces who joined in their rejection. And others, to raise a slogan in their face: “No to quotas.” In his opinion, Al-Kazimi, in his recent decision, consecrated “a dark quota, in which Iraq is obliged to come out of its mantle.” And even more, Al-Sadr went on to say that his “hope has been disappointed” with the government, asking the deputies of the “Sairoun bloc” (supported by him) to “immediately disown him”, or else “he would be repudiated. “. On the other hand, those close to Al-Kazemi described these responses as a “systematic campaign aimed at bringing him down.” The end result is to overthrow the Al-Kazemi government, by the street or by Parliament. As for the prime minister’s sources, they considered, in their interview with Al-Akhbar, that the motive for the recent attack on the man is his refusal to give the Shiite forces of the House what they want in terms of positions and positions. It is worth mentioning here that a similar attack took place during Adel Abdul Mahdi’s tenure as Prime Minister, when the “Sadrists” wanted to win the post of Governor of the Central Bank and the “Wisdom” wanted to get the post of Mayor of Baghdad, and the “law” was looking for some special positions and ranks, while he was looking for Al-Fateh also aims to extract as many special positions and ranks as possible.

Doubts have been raised about the veracity of the negotiations that took place on the appointments

In response to the accusations against him, Al-Kazemi issued a statement in which he considered that the changes “came in line with an administrative and legal context … taking the integrity and experience factor and ensuring the national balance”, asking to the political blocs that provide specific information about their quota charges He wondered: “If the political forces have declared their innocence of these changes, how can one accuse (the prime minister) that the changes (he brought) depended on the party quota system?” Here questions were raised about the veracity of the negotiations that took place between Al-Kazemi and the political forces on the appointments, while sources close to the prime minister said that “a very narrow circle knew the distribution mechanism, and this circle does not exceed the 5 people “.
While some consider the appointments crisis to be the beginning of the stage of confrontation between Al-Kazemi and the “Shiite” forces in particular, in a way that puts the fate of the government and its president at stake, information from US and Iranian decision-making circles indicate that the cover has not yet been removed from the prime minister, especially since there is now no alternative for him. . Even the European Union is closely monitoring developments in the Iraqi arena, and is “completely convinced” that the fall of the current government means moving rapidly into the unknown, which may require “swift intervention” to fill any voids that may arise. .

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