Iraqi government completed after Parliament passes vacant portfolios

The Iraqi Parliament voted on Saturday on the seven vacant portfolios in the government of Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi.

“The Parliament voted on Ihsan Abd al-Jabbar Ismail as Minister of Oil and Fuad Mohammad Hussein Baki as the Minister of Foreign Affairs,” The media department of the parliament said in a statement received by Alghadeer News.

“The Parliament also voted on Salar Abdel-Sattar Mohamed Hussein as the Minister of Justice, Alaa Ahmed Hassan Obaid as the Minister of Trade, and Muhammad Karim Jasim Saleh as the Minister of Agriculture.”

Furthermore, the parliament voted on Ivan Faeq Yaqoub Jaber as the Minister of Immigration and Displacement, and Hassan Nazim Abdul Hammadi as the Minister of Culture, Tourism, and Antiquities.

The parliament has also voted to authorize the Prime Minister to create a state ministry in which its minister to be from the Turkmen component.

In turn, Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi said that completing the cabinet is an additional motive for implementing the ministerial platform.

Al-Kadhimi tweeted “completing the ministerial cabinet with the parliament voting on the presented names, is an additional motivation to execute the ministerial curriculum and to accomplish the obligations of the current stage and abide with our promises before our people who are waiting for actions, not words.”

استكمالُ الكابينة الوزارية بتصويت مجلس النواب على الأسماء التي قدمناها، هو دافع اضافي لتنفيذ المنهاج الوزاري، والإيفاء باستحقاقات المرحلة والالتزام بوعودنا أمام شعبنا الذي ينتظر الأفعال لا الأقوال.
أشكرُ مجلس النواب على تجديد الثقة بالحكومة، خطُ شروعٍ جديد نقطعه بحزم وثبات.

— Mustafa Al-Kadhimi مصطفى الكاظمي (@MAKadhimi) June 6, 2020