Shafaq News / Prime Minister-designate Muhammad Allawi announced his withdrawal yesterday from the mandate to form the government, after the parliament failed to hold an extraordinary session, which was dedicated to passing the government because of the rejection of most of the Sunni blocs, the Kurds, and Shiite blocs.

This is the second time that the parliament has failed to hold a session of confidence for Allawi government, as the first session was scheduled for last Thursday, but disputes prevented it.

Allawi said in a letter to the President of the Republic Barham Salih, which was seen by Shafaq News, "When I was assigned I had promised the people that I would leave the assignment if political pressure was put in place for the purpose of passing a specific agenda on the government that I intend to form, therefore my decision was to form an independent government in order to work without Partisan obligations or pressure to accelerate the implementation of the demands of the people and I am fully aware that insisting on this condition will cost me to pass my government because the parties that have been plagued by corruption and traded with sectarian and ethnic trades will be the first affected, if I had made the concessions, I would now in my job as Prime Minister of Iraq. "

Allawi followed this up by requesting the President of the Republic to accept the withdrawal from his mandate.

The Shiite alliances supporting Allawi are Muqtada al-Sadr bloc (Towards Reform (54 seats) , Al-Fatah coalition headed by Hadi al-Amiri (47 seats) and Al-Hikma Movement headed by Ammar al-Hakim (19 seats), were unable to pass the government, in the absence of Sunni and Kurdish support.

The Shiite parties seek to pass Allawi out of the current crisis, in light of the popular protests taking place in Iraq, in addition to the failure to pass Allawi’s government, which means that the President of the Republic will assume the position of prime minister, until another person is assigned in a first precedent of its kind.

Allawi's policy, aimed at forming a government of independents, caused an outrage among Sunni and Kurdish politicians, because he ignored their demands and advice to form his government.

Allawi also aroused popular anger because of his choices that were considered "unsuccessful", as he relied on elderly personalities to assume ministerial positions, in the midst of popular protests aimed at engaging youth groups in the political system, as well as files of accusations leveled at some of them in administrative corruption files.