In the coup's aftermath, Abdul Salam Arif, an independent, was installed as President, al-Bakr was installed as Prime Minister and Vice President, al-Sadi was chosen as Deputy Prime Minister, and Minister of Interior and Tahir Yahya was chosen as Chief of Staff.
Soon after taking power, two factions were established; the radicals, mostly military men, who wished for socialist policies, and the moderates, led by Talib Shabib, who wanted to broaden the government's traditional base of support by including non-Ba'athists in government.
Al-Bakr was a moderate and spent much of his time trying to seeks a compromise between the two factions, but to no avail.

To solve the ideological differences between the party factions, al-Bakr called a meeting of the National Command, the leading organ of the Ba'ath Party.
The meeting did not go as al-Bakr planned, and Michel Aflaq, the Secretary General of the National Command (the Ba'ath Party leader), suggested that the National Command should take over the Iraqi Ba'ath Party cell.
The meeting led Arif, the President, to lead the November 1963 Iraqi coup d'état.
In the coup's aftermath, Abdul Salam Arif, an independent, was installed as President, al-Bakr was installed as Prime Minister and Vice President, al-Sadi was chosen as Deputy Prime Minister, and Minister of Interior and Tahir Yahya was chosen as Chief of Staff. Soon after taking power, two factions were established; the radicals, mostly military men, who wished for socialist policies, and the moderates, led by Talib Shabib, who wanted to broaden the government's traditional base of support by including non-Ba'athists in government. Al-Bakr was a moderate and spent much of his time trying to seeks a compromise between the two factions, but to no avail.
To solve the ideological differences between the party factions, al-Bakr called a meeting of the National Command, the leading organ of the Ba'ath Party. The meeting did not go as al-Bakr planned, and Michel Aflaq, the Secretary General of the National Command (the Ba'ath Party leader), suggested that the National Command should take over the Iraqi Ba'ath Party cell. The meeting led Arif, the President, to lead the November 1963 Iraqi coup d'état.
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr