The Al Abadi government was approved by the Assembly on 8 September 2014,
following the
general election
A general election is a political voting election where generally all or most members of a given political body are chosen. These are usually held for a nation, state, or territory's primary legislative body, and are different from by-elections ( ...
in April 2014. The names of thirty five ministers were approved, with the defense and interior ministries not yet filled.
[ On 18 October 2014, the Iraq parliament named ]Khaled al-Obaidi
Khaled Yassin al-Obaidi (born 1959) is an Iraqi politician who served as the defense minister of Iraq from 2014 to 2016.
Background
Khalid Yassin al-Obaidi is a Sunni Muslim who was born in Mosul. He belongs to the al-Obaidi Sunni tribal confed ...
, a member of parliament's Sunni Arab Itihad al-Quwa al-Wataniyah bloc as defense minister, and Mohammed Al-Ghabban
Mohammed Salem Al-Ghabban (Arabic: محمد سالم الغبان, born 1961 in Karrada-Baghdad) is an Iraqi politician and the former Minister of Interior.
Al-Ghabban was first elected to the Iraqi Council of Representatives in 2014 as represe ...
, a member of the Shiite Badr bloc, as interior minister. In August 2015, following popular protests against corruption
Corruption is a form of dishonesty or a criminal offense which is undertaken by a person or an organization which is entrusted in a position of authority, in order to acquire illicit benefits or abuse power for one's personal gain. Corruption m ...
and lack of services, backed by senior cleric Ali al-Sistani
Ali al-Husayni al-Sistani ( ar, علي الحسيني السيستاني; fa, , Ali-ye Hoseyni-ye Sistāni; born 4 August 1930), commonly known as Ayatollah Sistani, is an Iranian–Iraqi Twelver Shia Ayatollah and marja'. He has been described ...
, the Prime Minister reduced the cabinet to 22 members.
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Cabinets of Iraq