Al-Sudani announces his candidacy for the elections and confirms: Iraq needs bold reforms
Baghdad Today – Sulaymaniyah
Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani confirmed on Wednesday (April 16, 2025) that Iraq needs bold and comprehensive reforms, announcing its candidacy for the upcoming parliamentary elections.
Al-Sudani said in a speech during the ninth Sulaymaniyah conference and followed by “Baghdad Today”: “I will run for the elections on time, which has been determined, and the government is committed to preparing all its obligations, and the elections are an opportunity to support a reform project for Iraq.”
“The real value of any reform is to reach the poor and marginalized groups and save them from the clutches of poverty, and it is unacceptable that political competition should turn into employing the vocabulary of defamation and blurring the facts about government performance,” he added.
The Prime Minister added that “the Arab summit is an important event befitting Iraq, noting that he issued an official invitation to Syrian President Ahmed Al-Shara to attend the summit in Baghdad.”
He continued: “We have sougued from the first day to take responsibility for Iraq to be first, especially since our people have lived many years of oppression, pressure and bearing the burdens of adventures and attacks,” pointing out that “the country is entering today the second quarter of the twenty-first century and it is full in every corner of its parts with a unique success story, and in every Iraqi city there is a restless service and urban workshop.”
Al-Sudani explained that “youth are our first weapon to face the challenges of the future, and infrastructure has grown in all cities of Iraq, and inherited lagging projects have decreased to less than 850 projects after they were counted in the thousands,” noting that “the government is continuing to establish the elements of the strong state, and that Iraq is ready to be a reliable partner and a contributing and effective element in regional stability.”
With regard to energy, the Prime Minister pointed out that “the government has embarked on the highest production plan for the construction of power plants and entering for the first time in solar energy and clean and renewable energy projects, and the rate of stopping the burning of gas exceeded 70 percent.”
The work of the ninth Sulaymaniyah Forum was launched on Wednesday, with the participation of Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani, at the American University of Sulaymaniyah.
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