ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq – Iraq’s Reconstruction and Development Alliance, headed by Prime Minister Mohammed Shia’ al-Sudani, on Monday announced it has formulated an initiative to end the “political deadlock” over naming the country’s next premier.

“The Alliance announced the development of a comprehensive political initiative aimed at breaking the political deadlock and ending the stalemate that has prevented a resolution to the issue of the Prime Ministership,” the Alliance’s leading party Euphrates Movement said in a statement.

The statement added that the details of the initiative will be presented to the leaders of the ruling Shiite Coordination Framework during the upcoming meeting, “thus paving the way for serious political understandings that will lead to the formation of a stable government capable of managing the next phase.”

The process of forming Iraq’s next government is underway, with the country’s top political parties continuing negotiations on filling the top posts in Baghdad.

The Coordination Framework is set to convince later on Monday at the office of Former Prime Minister and State of Law Coalition Leader Nouri al-Maliki to continue talks on naming the country’s next prime minister, a post traditionally reserved for the Shiites.

Amer al-Faiz, a Sunni lawmaker who is set to chair the first session of the new Iraqi parliament as the eldest elected member of the legislature, told The New Region that the Framework’s Monday meeting “may determine the fate of the prime minister's selection.”

Iraq’s new parliament is set to hold its first session on December 29.

The Coordination Framework, an umbrella bloc of Shiite parties, was formed in 2022, mainly to challenge Muqatada al-Sadr’s attempts at forming a national majority government. The Framework nominated Sudani for prime minister in October 2022, following the withdrawal of Sadr from the political process, and has been the main power-holder in the Iraqi government since.