Expectations to announce his name today .. Protesters reject the third possible candidate for prime minister of Iraq

Iraqi President Barham Salih is expected to announce today, Thursday, the name of the candidate to form the next government, after the construction bloc named the current governor of Basra, Asaad Al-Eidani, as its candidate for the post, a decision that protesters met with refusing.

Sources with the Presidency of the Republic told the island that Saleh told deputies belonging to various blocs he met with them on Wednesday that he might announce today the name of the candidate who will be charged with forming the government.

The sources added that this development came after President Saleh received yesterday a message from the Presidency of Parliament informing him that the largest bloc is the Construction Alliance, and that the Alliance officially informed the President that his candidate for prime minister is the current governor of Basra, Asaad Al-Eidani.

Hamdallah al-Rikabi, spokesman for the Saaron parliamentary bloc - of which the Sadrist movement is the main constituent - has announced that his alliance renews its previous position by not participating in any political meetings related to the selection of the next prime minister.

The director of the Al-Jazeera office in Baghdad, Walid Ibrahim, said that talking about a consensus on the personality that will be assigned to form the government may be early, especially with the assertion of the spokesperson of the Saeron Bloc that the bloc will not be part of any political agreements to name the next prime minister.

He added that the sources close to the Iraqi president say that the Saeron Alliance will be part of a prospective agreement, and that the Sadrist movement may withdraw in the coming hours its support for the demonstrations calling for change, noting at the same time that the street has announced openly that it will not accept any candidate belonging to these parties.

The street is blocking
Protesters in Baghdad and the southern governorates met with the announcement of the nomination of Al-Benaa bloc (which includes parties linked to the PMF) Al-Idani for the post of prime minister of rejection, as they demand an independent figure from outside the political parties.

In Baghdad's Tahrir Square, protesters hung a large picture of Basra Governor with an "X" on it for the Turkish restaurant, which is one of several buildings controlled by protesters demanding comprehensive political and economic reforms.

The Anadolu Agency said that the crowd in the Tahrir Square chanted slogans refusing to take al-Eidani as prime minister for the transitional period, waving to escalate if he was actually assigned by the President of the Republic to fill the position.

In the past two days, the southern governorates witnessed demonstrations and bandits to protest the possible candidacy of the current governor of Basra to the post of prime minister, while protesters in Diwaniya burned the headquarters of Shiite parties and factions, namely the Dawa Party, the Imam Ali Brigades, the Wisdom Movement, the Badr Organization, and the League of the Righteous.