Published On 27 Apr 2026
The Iraqi President Nizar Amedi has named Ali al-Zaidi as prime minister-designate, and tasked him with forming a government, Al Jazeera’s correspondent in Iraq has reported.
Al-Zaidi was named earlier on Monday as the candidate of the Coordination Framework, a coalition of Shia parties that has a majority in parliament.
The choice of al-Zaidi breaks a months-long deadlock in which the US President Donald Trump had himself intervened, after former two-time Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki emerged as the Coordination Framework’s initial candidate.
Al-Maliki, who is close to Iran, was fiercely opposed by Trump, who warned that all support to Iraq would stop if he became prime minister.
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