Incoming cabinet undergoes final scrutiny ahead of confidence vote, PM-designate says

Iraq’s Prime Minister-designate Mohammad Shiyaa al-Sudani said he is carrying out a multi-layered “final scrutiny” into his cabinet lineup on the eve of an expected confidence vote tomorrow, Thursday.

“The Prime Minister’s bureau is holding today a final scrutiny into the names of the candidates nominated for the ministerial posts in the incoming cabinet ahead of a presentation before the parliament tomorrow, Thursday,” the PM-designate media office said in a press release.

According to the press release, the names will be filtered via specialist committees from the Higher Education Ministry, the Ministry of Interior, and the Committees of Integrity, Accountability, and Justice.

According to PM-designate’s bureau, the candidate whose name will ring bells in any of these committees will be excluded.