Shafaq News / The "Arab Project" bloc in the Iraqi parliament led by Khamis Al-Khanjar stipulated that five points be included in the transitional government program headed by Prime Minister-designate Muhammad Allawi in exchange for voting on it.

The Iraqi Parliament failed in a session held on Thursday to give confidence to the transitional government assigned to Mohammed Tawfiq Allawi and the latter demanded to be postponed to tomorrow, Sunday, and the presidency agreed to do so.

The capital, Baghdad and the predominantly Shiite areas in the center and south of the country have been witnessing since early October of 2019 protests calling for the removal of the ruling political parties and forces accused by the demonstrators of corruption and association with external parties, as well as holding of early elections.

The protests, which resulted in hundreds of deaths and thousands of demonstrators, prompted former Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi to resign from his post under pressure from the Supreme Shia reference , Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani.

Muhammad Allawi has the support of two of the largest Shiite blocs in Iraq, namely, the "Towards Reform" coalition led by Muqtada al-Sadr, and the "Al-Fatah" coalition led by the Secretary-General of Badr Organization, Hadi al-Amiri.

Most of the Kurdish and Sunni political forces, in addition to the popular movement in the central and southern regions of Iraq, expressed their rejection of Muhammad Allawi's assumption of the presidency of the transitional government.