Shafaq News / The Iraqi President, Barham Salih sent a message to the political and parliamentary blocs in the country, regarding the submission of a candidate to head the Iraqi government.

The content of the message, seen by Shafaq News, stated:

Iraq is facing dangerous political junctures that compel us all to confront it responsibly, to avoid further complications in the Iraqi scene, and to fulfill the legitimate demands of the people to form a new government that will pave the way for the upcoming elections.

Since Prime Minister Adel Abdel-Mahdi submitted his official resignation to the parliament, political and parliamentary debates were launched for the purpose of choosing a candidate to take over the government, unfortunately due to political debates and tensions, these deliberations did not lead until today to an understanding of a "non-controversial" candidate for the presidency of the movement. The ministers are able to address the requirements of the stage and achieve the political and popular consensus required to pass the country to safety and restore order and prepare for the upcoming elections, which the supreme religious Marjiyaa called for as well as the national powers and demonstrators to ask those concerned to expedite the resolution of the government formation file.

Events are accelerating and the scene is getting more complicated on the official and popular levels. There are increasing numbers of martyrs and victims from peaceful demonstrators and security forces, and we believe that the biggest problem lies in reaching reasonable solutions to agree on the new candidate for the presidency of the Council of Ministers, and certainly continuing the current situation warns of great danger and greater complexity.

I call on you, as parliamentary blocs concerned with the nomination of the Prime Minister, to resume constructive and serious political dialogue in order to agree on a new candidate for the presidency of the Council of Ministers with popular approval and submit him to the Presidency of the Republic in order to issue the mandate order. Inevitably, you estimate that the President of the Republic has a national and constitutional duty to push towards resolving the crisis, and if the concerned blocs are not able to resolve the nomination order by no later than Saturday, February 1, 2019, I see an obligation to exercise my constitutional powers by assigning those whom I find most acceptable to Parliament and people in the framework    of the consultations that I held during the last period with political forces and popular activities.