Shafaq News / "Sadikoun" parliamentary bloc affiliated to Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq movement, said it would take its official position on assigning Adnan al-Zrofi to form the new Iraqi government after a meeting.

An official in Al-Asaib told Shafaq News, "Until now, there is no official position taken from the announcement of Adnan Zarfi’s mandate, during the next few hours, there will be a meeting in order to take a position on this assignment."

He added, "The position, which will be taken by Sadikoun's parliamentary bloc, has not been determined so far. It may be opposed and may be supportive. This is what the meeting will decide, but the bloc until yesterday night strongly opposed to this mandate."

Barham Salih has assigned the President of the Republic, Adnan Al-Zorfi to form the government in Iraq, where he had a month to form the cabinet.

Al-Zorfi is a leader in the victory coalition headed by Haider al-Abadi, and he is also a former governor of Najaf.

It should be noted that Al-Zorfi's assignment came within a constitutional deadline of 15 days, which was set after Muhammad Tawfiq Allawi stepped down from the task of forming the government early this month, after he failed to persuade the Sunnis and Kurds to support his government formation and his government program.

Unprecedented popular protests forced the government of Adel Abdul Mahdi to submit its resignation in early December 2019, and since that time, the formation of a new government has not been decided due to deep differences among the political blocs as well as the popular movement's rejection of most of the names presented.

Al-Zorfi was scheduled to be assigned yesterday evening, but the opposition of Shiite forces postponed the matter.