Shafaq News / Alliance Towards Reforms close close to the leader of the Sadrist movement, Muqtada al-Sadr announced the "failure" of the Shiite 7-party committee, charged with choosing a candidate for prime minister.

The head of Alliance Towards Reforms and his representative in the committee, Nabil Al-Tarfi said in an interview with Shafaq News, that " Alliance Towards Reforms announces that the 7-party committee did not reach an agreement to choose a candidate to assign him to form the government instead of the current resigned government."

"The president of the republic must exercise his constitutional powers by commission."

The second constitutional deadline for choosing a candidate for prime minister in Iraq ends Monday night.

The main Shiite leaderships formed last week a 7-party committee comprising all the Shiite parliamentary blocs represented in parliament to discuss the conduct of more than 31 candidates for the position, to be agreed on one candidate of them, submitted to the President of the Republic , Barham Saleh for the purpose of assigning him.

A source in the 7-party committee, which includes Shiite political forces revealed on Sunday, the existence of an agreement within the committee to nominate a close member to Nuri al-Maliki, leader of Statr of Law coalition , Naim Al-Suhail as a Prime Minister.

He added, "If the committee does not reach a final agreement to nominate Al-Suhail and present it officially to the President of the Republic, Barham Salih, then the 7-party Committee will present the head of the intelligence service, Mustafa Al-Kazemi to fill the position."