From the BBC:
Iraq’s parliament has sworn in the first Iraqi government since elections were held in January.
Seven posts in Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari’s cabinet—including the defence and oil ministries – remain unfilled amid partisan haggling.
The ethnic make-up of the cabinet—the first democratically elected government in more than 50 years—is considered to be crucial to building legitimacy.
Well, it’s already legitimate, but I suppose we can forgive the BBC their professional desire for some ongoing drama. It’s all they really have left, after all…
Hmm, the BBC must not have gotten sufficient warning, or they could have covered the protests in Iraq against the new government (providing protesters as needed).
Based on the Beeb’s criterion for legitimacy, just how legitimate can we say the British cabinet is?
The article was considered to be crucial to building the BBC’s waning legitimacy.