ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq – Iraq’s ruling Coordination Framework is set to meet on Wednesday to resolve the impasse over selecting the next prime minister, amid reported divisions within the framework’s camps and uncertainty about the meeting’s outcome.

Wael al-Rukabi, a member of former prime minister Nouri al-Maliki’s State of Law Coalition, on Wednesday said that a Coordination Framework meeting later in the day is not expected to settle the bloc’s prime minister candidate.

“The disagreements are still centered around the mechanism for resolution and the principle of the compromise candidate, indicating that the failure to reach a unified formula has led to the suspension of negotiations,” he told Iraq’s state-run al-Sabah newspaper.

The bloc is reportedly currently split between two camps, with one side backing Basim al-Badri, a senior member of Maliki’s State of Law and the chairman of the Accountability and Justice Commission, while the other side has opted for Ihsan al-Awadi, the director of current Prime Minister Mohammed Shia’ al-Sudani’s office, for the post.

A Monday meeting of the prominent Shiite bloc’s leaders did not see it settle on a final candidate for the post. The meeting came after an earlier session was already postponed amid disagreements inside the alliance.

It is likely for a constitutional 15-day period to expire before the framework decides its candidate for the post, Rikabi added.

A day before the Coordination Framework’s meeting, Nourli al-Maliki’s media director Husham al-Rikabi claimed that the powerful Shiite bloc had kept Maliki as its official candidate.

Earlier in April, the Iraqi parliament elected Nizar Amedi as the country’s new president during a contested session that was boycotted by Maliki’s State of Law Coalition, the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), and the Hoquq Movement.

According to the Iraqi constitution, Amedi now has until April 26 to task the prime ministerial nominee of the largest parliamentary bloc to form a government.