On the evening of 23 August, Al-Ahad TV (AAH — official) carried Sadiqoun bloc MP Qaisar al-Jurani on its programme saying the bloc has established its entitlement to the Ministry of Labour and to a deputy prime ministership. The statement came in the same evening block in which the channel's other Sadiqoun voices pressed the PMF chairman to testify, and roughly twenty minutes before iNEWS (KSS — affiliated) reported agreement on settling the cabinet vacancies. The rung is credible: the claim is a direct quotation on the movement's own official channel, and nothing in the window disputes it.
- Al-Ahad TVAAH — official23 Aug, 22:34
“Sadiqoun has established its entitlement to the Ministry of Labour and the deputy prime ministership.”
الصادقون ثبتت استحقاقها بوزارة العمل ونائب رئيس الوزراء
- iNEWSKSS — affiliated23 Aug, 23:15
“Agreement on settling the cabinet vacancies.”
توافق على حسم شواغر الكابينة الوزارية
The Labour Ministry administers social protection payments and employment programmes, and a deputy premiership sits inside the cabinet's decision core; a public entitlement claim staked on the faction's own channel during cabinet formation is a bid placed in the open.