Shafaq News / Prime Minister (PM) Mustafa Al-Kadhimi issued bureau orders on Tuesday that entrust current ministers with the duties of vacant portfolios.

Among these orders is to assign the Minister of Education with the missions  of the Minister of Justice , the Minister of Finance as the Minister of Oil , the Minister of Youth and Sports as the Minister of Culture , the Minister of Education as the Minister of Trade and the Minister of Transport as the Minister of Immigration and Displacement.

The Iraqi parliament approved a new government on Wednesday after six months without a government. As Two charged with the mission of forming the government before al-Kadhimi, Muhammad Tawfiq Allawi and Adnan al-Zurfi were refused because there was no consensus on them by political forces.

Voting on the Oil and Foreign portfolios was postponed after the parties failed to agree on candidates. The deputies rejected the new Prime Minister's candidates for the Justice, Agriculture and Trade portfolios.