The Department of Political and Strategic Studies at the Basrah and Arab Gulf Studies Center at the University of Basrah organized a scientific symposium entitled "Internal and external obstacles to the formation of the Iraqi government and ways to overcome them" in cooperation with the Iraqi Association for Political Science.
The symposium aims to analyze the political positions of the political blocs in Parliament and to find consensual solutions to form a government.
The symposium recommended taking into account the current challenges, giving priority to the supreme national interest, inviting religious references to intervene in solving the government formation crisis, opening the door to dialogue between the political blocs to resolve the existing differences over the nomination of the President of the Republic and assigning the candidate of the most numerous parliamentary bloc to form the government, and avoiding conflicts that are useless which lead to the delay and loss of the rights of citizens.