# Al-Sudani steps aside as the Coordination Framework nominates Nouri al-Maliki Date: 2026 ## The fact On 24 January 2026 Iraq’s Coordination Framework announced that it had nominated former prime minister Nouri al-Maliki as its candidate for prime minister after caretaker [Mohammed Shia' al-Sudani](/people/mohammed-shia-al-sudani), whose list had won the most seats in November, stepped aside. AP recorded the announcement. Maliki remains an unresolved person candidate. This run does not mint him. A first-place 46-seat sticker is not a premiership. ## Context He had been caretaker since the November election. He did not sit as every Framework secretary-general. 17 November 2025 IHEC result is parent. Zaidi’s later confirmation is a child. Keep Al-Sudani steps aside as the Coordination Framework nominates Nouri al-Maliki on 2026-01-24 separate from neighbouring 27 October 2022 confidence vote, 11 November 2025 election, 17 November 2025 IHEC 46 seats, and 2026 Framework succession. The prime minister of Iraq chairs cabinet and names ministers when the largest parliamentary bloc allows. He does not sit as every Popular Mobilisation Forces brigade, as [Muqtada al-Sadr](/people/muqtada-al-sadr), as CENTCOM, or as the Coordination Framework. This run does not mint Sadr, Maliki, Khamenei, or militia heads. ## Evidence and sources Council of Representatives of Iraq carries the official instrument or communique. Associated Press records the same dated act independently. ## Significance The path is militia-balance: a completed Framework denial of a second term after a first-place list. ## What is established and what is not Established: AP recorded on 24 January 2026 that he had stepped aside and that the Framework nominated Maliki. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. He stepped aside. Maliki is unresolved. Parliament had not yet confirmed a successor that day.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Al-Sudani steps aside as the Coordination Framework nominates Nouri al-Maliki, not a later speech about Al-Sudani steps aside as the Coordination Framework nominates Nouri al-Maliki. Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Al-Sudani steps aside as the Coordination Framework nominates Nouri al-Maliki on 2026-01-24 is not a licence to treat every later Council of Representatives of Iraq communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Al-Sudani steps aside as the Coordination Framework nominates Nouri al-Maliki into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to The Framework nominated. He stepped aside. Maliki is unresolved. Parliament had not yet confirmed a successor that day. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series. ## People - Mohammed Shia' al-Sudani: https://factrail.ai/people/mohammed-shia-al-sudani ## Drivers - Al-Sudani Coordination Framework militia-balanced premiership: https://factrail.ai/drivers/al-sudani-militia-balance - Capacity for Peaceful Transfer of Power: https://factrail.ai/drivers/capacity-for-peaceful-transfer-of-power ## Sources - https://apnews.com/article/iraq-maliki-sudani-coordination-framework-prime-minister-94e71992eeb6c1accd8119efba8ecc65 - https://iq.parliament.iq/ ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/iq-sudani-stepaside-2026