{"id":15510,"date":"2018-09-18T11:27:20","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T11:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=15510"},"modified":"2018-09-18T11:27:20","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T11:27:20","slug":"iraqi-paramilitary-leader-hadi-al-amiri-withdraws-candidacy-for-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=15510","title":{"rendered":"Iraqi paramilitary leader Hadi al-Amiri withdraws candidacy for PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1373851\/middle-east\" readability=\"63\">\n<p>\nBAGHDAD: Militia leader Hadi al-Amiri, one of the most powerful figures in Iraq, withdrew his candidacy for prime minister on Tuesday, putting the country one step closer to forming a government after months of political stagnation.<\/p>\n<p>\nAmiri heads the Fatih Aliance, an electoral bloc which came in second in May&#8217;s inconclusive national election. His coalition has been vying to build the largest bloc which would form the government, with him as prime minister.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;I would like to announce to the dear Iraqi people the withdrawal of my candidacy for prime minister, to open the way for serious dialogue to elect a prime minister and his government according to the vision of the Supreme religious authority,&#8221; he said in a news conference.<\/p>\n<p>\nAmiri&#8217;s Fatih alliance was composed of political groups tied to Iran-backed Shi\u2019ite militias who helped government forces dislodge Daesh militants from the third of Iraq they seized four years ago. His Badr Organization controls the interior ministry.<\/p>\n<p>\nAmiri&#8217;s Alliance has been in advanced talks with Shi&#8217;ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr to form a new alliance in recent days.<\/p>\n<p>\nSadr, whose Saeroon bloc scored a stunning victory in the May 12 parliamentary, portrays himself as a fierce nationalist opposed to both U.S. and Iranian interference in Iraq. He had formed an alliance with incumbent Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi since June, which looked set to falter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BAGHDAD: Militia leader Hadi al-Amiri, one of the most powerful figures in Iraq, withdrew his candidacy for prime minister on Tuesday, putting the country one step closer to forming a government after months of political stagnation. Amiri heads the Fatih Aliance, an electoral bloc which came in second in May&#8217;s inconclusive national election. His coalition&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":15511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}