BAGHDAD, (Reuters) – Iraq’s main political blocs agreed nominees for the country’s top three parliamentary posts, ending an eight-month deadlock over a new government, Kurdish regional president Masoud Barzani said today.
Barzani said incumbent Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s Shi’ite-led alliance would get the prime minister post, while the Kurdish faction would keep the presidency.
Former premier Iyad Allawi’s Sunni-backed Iraqiya faction would get the speaker’s post in the national assembly — parliament — while Allawi himself would head a new council of strategic policy, he said.