Shafaq News / The Iraqi Prime Minister-designate Adnan Al-Zorfi warned, on Monday, that Iraq will be subjected to "international sanctions" during the coming period, stressing at the same time that it will not proceed "without the consent of all parties and components."

Al-Zorfi said during his meeting with a group of Iraqi journalists, "My assignment came normally for being one of the candidates for the position, and running out of the constitutional deadline for choosing a commissioner to form a government, and was not in any way a deal with President Barham Saleh."

Al-Zorfi added that "the commissioning method was very normal, especially since the President of the Republic has finished all the methods that can be followed, whether his commitment to the constitutional deadline, and his request from the concerned political blocs to resolve the matter a day before the end of the deadline, in addition to directing an inquiry to the Federal Court."

On what is said about it as an American option for the position, Al-Zorfi stressed by saying, "I am an Iraqi option first and foremost, and if one is forced during a period of his life to be in prisons and detention centers during the previous regime era, he was forced to go to this or that country, including the United States to become an American, this is an unreasonable. "

He explained that "What concerns me primarily is building balanced relations with all countries of the region; whether they are Arab as the surrounding Iraq is Arab, and Islamic as the Iraqi vicinity is also Islamic, in addition to establishing balanced state relations with regional and international powers on the basis of common interests with priority of our national interests"

Regarding his options in forming the next Iraqi government in light of many crises, including the crisis of his relationship with his partners in the Shiite house, Al-Zorfi said that "he started yesterday his consultations to form the government that interests me to participate in everyone, indicating that it is" in addition to being a crisis government due to the nature of the challenges it faces that require everyone's participation in it, its mission will be a year only during which preparations are made for early elections.

Al-Zorfi stressed that "the decision to hold early elections is not only a government decision; as much as it is a political decision related to the nature of the preparations of the blocs and political forces to conduct such elections, and therefore, if the political blocs asked me if I went ahead in forming the government to conduct them within 3 months, I will be ready for that. "

Regarding the persistence of divergent positions within the Shiite house about him, Al-Zorfi says that "regardless of the positions, I will only move with the agreement of all parties and components, because I want a government in which everyone participates," revealing "his continued contacts with various parties, including those that still have reservation on him.

About the government program that Al-Zorfi will present to the political forces, he pointed out that "my government program is brief according to the main challenges we face now, which is the external challenge, including the Security Council and the International Alliance, as the position on Iraq appears to be negative, and we may face sanctions unless we take this into consideration. "

The Prime Minister-designate added, "As for the second challenge, which Al-Zorfi considered important during the coming stage, it is the mass protests that must be dealt with as a priority of our work, especially since the main demand of the demonstrators is to hold early elections, which must be worked on, given that the demonstrations were pure Iraqi, not partisan or politicized, therefore we must rise to the level of what it represented a challenge for all of us as a political class and society. "

Al-Zorfi explained, "One of the things that needs to be done at the level of demonstrations is to deal seriously with the file of killing and kidnapping the demonstrators; this cannot be condoned under any pretext."

He said that "the challenge of the financial crisis that Iraq is currently experiencing due to the collapse of oil prices, is one of the most important things that must be dealt witj and working on it seriously," noting that "Iraq is now living on the cash surplus provided by the government of Haider al-Abadi."

Al-Zorfi pointed out that “among the things that must be worked on is to conduct negotiations with OPEC countries in this regard, as well as to take effective measures in terms of encouraging investment and providing job opportunities.” And on the last challenge that needs to be faced, he said that it is «(Corona) challenge "It requires us to take a serious stand at all levels, which is what we will focus on in my government program."