BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, threatened with mass protests over delays in tackling corruption, voiced hope on Monday that Iraq's parliament could vote "in the next few days" on a cabinet of non-party technocrats.
On Saturday, powerful Shi'ite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr warned he would call for major street protests if the nation's leaders failed by Tuesday afternoon to name a technocratic cabinet geared to weeding out graft and mismanagement.
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