It is EVICT MALIKI DAY + EIGHTY - FOUR ( 84 ) or " E - M DAY + 84 "
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"..... despite the superiority of Maliki’s electoral coalition, the competing Shiite forces, the Kurds and the Sunnis, are together able to form a comfortable majority to prevent Maliki from remaining in office. "......................
Maliki likely fears that if he rushes to do business with parties outside the Shiite alliance, his Shiite rivals would do the same and that they may have a better chance to win over the Kurdish and Sunni forces, because there is a general consensus among them to not keep Maliki in power.
At the same time, the rest of the Shiite groups fear that this consensus is not solid enough to withstand discussing the details, and that going alone to the Kurdish and Sunni forces may put them in a weak bargaining position and make them appear responsible for breaking Shiite unity.
An important factor here are the choices that the Sunni and Kurdish forces will make. If the Sunnis and Kurds rush to form ethnic and sectarian alliances, then the Shiite alliance may do the same.
Some are proposing scenarios such as replacing Maliki with another figure from the State of Law Coalition as a compromise to ensure the continuation of the Shiite alliance.
[* a source said in a statement to the Agency ((eighth day)) that there is an agreement semi-final between the U.S. and Iran to take on Ahmed Chalabi as prime minister for the next government as a compromise candidate.]
Yet, such a solution may come at a later stage, after the favored options by most parties have been exhausted.
What is certain now is that a harsh negotiating season will [ * HAS ] begin [ * BEGUN ] as the conflict moves from its electoral aspect into the closed negotiating rooms and deals among the elite. - - from al Monitor
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Officially, Speaker, his 2 Deputy Speakers assume their posts
Tuesday, 15 July 2014 21:23
Baghdad (AIN) –The Speaker of the Parliament and his two Deputy Speakers assumed their duties officially.
The Parliament succeeded in electing Speaker of the Parliament, Salim al-Jebuori, and his first Deputy, Haider al-Ebadi, as well as his 2nd deputy, Aram al-Sheikh Mohamed.
The Parliament will assume task of elect new President then to form the Government.
next phase will be difficult to choose president and prime minster
17/07/2014 09:50:00
BAGHDAD / NINA / The Kurdish leading figure, former MP, Mahmud Othman confirmed "the difficulty of the next phase to select the President and the Prime Minister." pointing out that" every bloc wants the candidate who meets its ambition and this is difficult to be achieved in the current stage. "
He told the National Iraqi News Agency / NINA / "The President of the Republic is within the share of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), and one of two characters, Barham Salih or Najimalddin Kareeem will be chosen, during the next two days, adding that electing the Speaker and his deputies made it easy to elect candidates for the posts of President and Prime Minister. "
He said, "The Council of Ministers is the key to solve problems and matters relating to the state, therefore, everyone in the National Alliance puts this post within his ambition, therefore there will be difficult talks among the parties of the National Alliance on one hand, and between the National Alliance and other political blocs on the other hand to select the candidate for this important and sensitive post. "
Othman asked "all political, sense of responsibility, and work collectively, and open a new page, so they can manage the country properly, describing" election of the Speaker and his two deputies, a positive step, on the grounds that they did not pass the candidates of the three presidencies in one basket deal. "
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PUK Taken Aback as Najmaldin Karim Joins Race for Iraq Presidency
By RUDAW
Karim is a close friend of Jalal Talabani, the PUK leader and Iraq’s president.
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Najmaldin Karim, the powerful Kurdish governor of Kirkuk, has caused a stir inside his Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) by submitting his name for the Iraqi presidency, but without the party’s consent.
A PUK official confirmed that Karim had submitted his candidacy. The office of the presidency declined to comment on the issue, and calls to Karim himself went unanswered.
Karim is a close friend of Jalal Talabani, the PUK leader and Iraq’s president, who has been in Germany since a stroke in December 2012.
As news about Karim broke on Wednesday Hero Ibrahim Ahmed, a PUK leader and Talabani’s wife, said the party had not finalized its nomination for the presidency.
Kosrat Rasul Ali and Mala Bakhtyar, two senior PUK leaders, said in a statement that, “Only the political bureau has the authority to nominate PUK’s candidate for the presidency, and no one else.
“We will not accept any illegitimate step taken contrary to the political bureau,” they said.
Their statement added that the PUK would formally announce its candidate for the position in the next three days, and inform Kurdistan Region President Massoud Barzani of its choice.
Ahrar Bloc: Barham Salih more accepted than any other figure for the presidency
17/07/2014 10:37:00
BAGHDAD / NINA / the head of the Ahrar parliamentary bloc, Moshriq Naji guessed that Barham Salih, deputy head of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan is the strongest candidate for the presidency of the Republic.
He told the National Iraqi News Agency / NINA / that "the two leaders of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, Barham Saleh and Najimalddin are vying for the post of President of the Republic."Naji said, "it is likely the Kurdish Alliance finishes the matter of the candidate for this post before the next parliamentary session devoted to select the president next Wednesday."
He explained that "after the end of the first session and electing the Speaker and his deputies, and according to the Constitution and the law, a president of the country must be elected within thirty days."
The Kurdistan Alliance announced that it would declare its candidates for the presidency during 48 hours, stressing that the choice will be between Kareem and Saleh, while sources in the Kurdistan Alliance reported that " Barham Saleh, deputy head of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) is the strongest candidate for the post of President of the Republic by the approval of most of the political parties, particularly the national Alliance. "
Mehdi al-Hafiz to nominate for president
17/07/2014 13:17:00
BAGHDAD / NINA / Press sources announced that the former president of Age in the House of Representatives, Mehdi al-Hafez is ready for nomination for the office of President of the Republic.
The sources added, " Mehdi al-Hafez, MP of Iraq Coalition, is preparing to run for the post of President of the Republic."
The Presidency of the Council of Representatives announced today that nominations are open for the post of President of the Republic, through no later than the end of the official working hours of Sunday, July 20. "
Chalabi announce his candidacy on Facebook for prime minister
Wrote on: 07/17/2014 16:29:17
Future news / Baghdad: -
MP for the coalition of citizen Ahmed Chalabi, said Thursday, "his candidacy for prime minister as a competitor for the owners."
Chalabi said on his Facebook today: "Since the Muslim Brotherhood in the state law, adhere to the nomination of Nuri al-Maliki as Prime Minister and bookmark her condition admissibility of all spectrums of people for this to enter as a candidate and I'll be the alliance's candidate and 328 deputy are will resolve it within the parliament vote Democrat. "
The State of Law coalition has expressed his commitment to the nomination of current Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki for the assumption of office for the third time in a row. "
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A newspaper close to Iran stresses the intention of Al-Maliki's resignation
16-07-2014 06:41 PM
Orbit-Arabic. NET/sources of Lebanese Akhbar, close to Iran, abandoned the outgoing Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, his candidacy to head the new Government for a third term, after a request from the reference of Najaf and Iran.
The paper reported that the request for religious reference came in a bid to end the conflict within and outside the National Coalition for the Prime Minister.
The leaks that negotiations within the National Alliance are underway regarding the timing of the announcement of the nomination of a replacement for the succession of Al-Maliki, after the latter give up the run, where some parties prefer to announce this step results in the field.
Ktlta al-Hakim and al-Sadr refused to renew Maliki's nomination to head the government and call for the coalition to provide irreplaceable
Thu Jul 17 2014 22:33 | (Voice of Iraq)
long-Presse / Baghdad
New coalition al-Hakim and al-Sadr, on Thursday, refusing to nominate the prime minister expired, Nuri al-Maliki, for a third session, while Pena possibility of acceptance of another candidate presented by the coalition, threatened first by resorting to the opposition, revealing the second support the nomination of Adel Abdul Mahdi and Ahmad Chalabi for the post.
Was Deputy for a coalition of citizen, of the Supreme Council of the Islamic, led by Ammar al-Hakim, to hold the prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, the state third, a "problem" to reject so many components of the National Alliance and other blocs, noting that many of them is the same, will turn to the subject If you do not submit a coalition of state law, an alternative candidate for the post.
Ali said an inch, in an interview to the (long-Presse), said that "stuck to the prime minister, Nuri al-Maliki, the state third, a problem within the National Alliance, could hinder the formation of the government for a long time," adding that "a lot of the components of the National Alliance and other blocs outside reject Maliki's nomination. "
He added an inch, that "the political blocs could accept another candidate presented by a coalition of state law for the position," noting that "a lot of political blocs, including a coalition of citizens, would prefer to stay opposition if they insisted al-Maliki to head the next government," returned that there are "many figures that can occupy the prime minister runs the country. "
For her part, the Liberal block of the Sadrist movement, rejected the state's third generation, revealing its support for the other two candidates. The MP said the Liberal bloc, F Bureau, said in an interview to the (long-Presse), "The bloc rejects the state's third generation, and supports the nomination of Adel Abdul-Mahdi, or Ahmad Chalabi to head the new government."
According to the Court, that "the National Alliance can accept dissector last for a coalition of state law, non-Maliki," returned to "Maliki's insistence on the nomination itself would make him aloof from the National Alliance."
The president of a coalition of state law, Nuri al-Maliki, new in (the fourth of July 2014 present), adherence to the nomination for a third term, amid worsening opposition to the majority of political forces Therefore, most notably the Sadrists, and a coalition of citizens, and the Kurdistan Alliance and the Sunni Arab blocs, as well as a coalition of national leadership Iyad Allawi, to do so.
It is noteworthy that the National Alliance, a parliamentary blocs, the largest, has failed so far to choose its candidate to head the next government, amid worsening differences between components on more worthy than others in the job, amid confirmation actors in it, the need to undergo a candidate for "compatibility and acceptability" within the coalition in the national space.
The Kurdistan Alliance will present its candidate for president post within two days
20/07/2014 11:01:00
BAGHDAD / NINA / The leading figure of the Kurdistan Alliance, MP Mohsen al-Sadoun said "his alliance will present its candidate for the post of president of the republic before the parliamentary session next Wednesday."
He told the National Iraqi News Agency / NINA / the Kurdistan Alliance has more than one candidate for the post of President of the Republic, and within the next two days, the Kurdish blocs will agree on the candidate to be presented to other political blocs to agree upon before Wednesday's session. "
Fouad Massoum: Veteran Politician Likely to be Iraq’s Next President
By RUDAW
Massoum is a founding member of the PUK and a longtime friend of Jalal Talabani.
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Fouad Massoum, a founding member of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), is seen as the strongest candidate to replace Jalal Talabani as Iraq’s next president.
"Fuad Massoum has the greatest chance for this post," Sarwan Gomashini from the president's legal office told Rudaw after the PUK finalized the candidacy.
Massoum, a self-possessed veteran politician, has been a longtime confidante of Jalal Talabani, Iraq’s current president and PUK head who returned to Kurdistan Saturday after a year-and-a-half in Germany recuperating from a stroke.
Sources also have revealed that the PUK had submitted the name of Adnan Mufti, another party veteran, for the presidency. But Mufti had told Rudaw earlier he was not interested.
Meanwhile the PUK’s Najmaldin Karim, the powerful Kurdish governor of Kirkuk, has reportedly rattled the party by submitting his name for the presidency, but without party consent.
That move raised the ire of other PUK leaders, who rejected any candidate that is not approved by the party leadership.
Under the Iraqi constitution the president is Kurdish, the prime minister a Shiite and the parliament speaker a Sunni. The presidency is traditionally given to the PUK.
Last week MPs in Baghdad finally elected Salim al-Jabouri as parliament speaker, coming a stop closer to forming a government, as Iraq suffers a crisis that threatens to splinter the country.
Even if a president is chosen, the issue of the Shiite prime minister still would remain unresolved: The Sunnis and Kurds have absolutely rejected a third term for Nouri al-Maliki, who has continued to insist he will remain prime minister.
Massoum – whose full name is Muhammad Fouad Massoum Hawrami -- was born in 1938 in the township of Koye in Iraqi Kurdistan. Both his parents originally come from the Hawraman area, and his father was a notable cleric.
He and Talabani come from prominent religious families and spent their childhood in the same town and remain close friends to this day.
As a teenager Massoum studied at Kurdish religious schools, and in 1958 he began studies at Egypt’s prestigious Al-Azhar University, where he earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees in Islamic studies, and later his PhD.
Massoum was a member of the Iraqi Communist Party, which he left early in his career to join the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) in 1964.
He taught at the University of Basra and was in charge of the KDP's military operations in Iraqi Kurdistan in the late 60s.
Massoum was a representative of the KDP and Mustafa Barzani in Cairo between 1973-75.
He is one of the founders of the PUK and has remained one of its leading members.
Because of his old ties with the KDP he helped the reconciliation process with the PUK in the 1980s, when the two were at war. In 1992, he became the first prime minister of Kurdistan.
Massoum was a member of the negotiating team in Baghdad that drafted the Iraqi constitution following the 2003 US-led invasion.
In 2004, he became the first speaker of the interim Iraqi parliament, and the year after he became an Iraqi MP.
Massoum is married and has five daughters.
Apart from his other duties, Massoum has supervised the current Iraqi prime minister’s graduate dissertation at Salahaddin University in Erbil.
United: the parliament session will be limited to the next presidential candidate
Dhafer al-Ani
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21/07/2014 11:50
Tomorrow's Press / Baghdad: WIN confirmed coalition united with the National Union of Forces, on Monday, that the next meeting of the Council of Representatives will be limited to asking the name of the presidential candidate only, expected to take the presidential candidate of the government and longer.
A spokesman for the coalition, Dhafer al-Ani for "tomorrow's Press", "The Kurdistan Alliance completed its preparations for the launch name of its candidate for the office of the presidency is expected to be raised during a session of the House of Representatives next Wednesday," pointing out that "the meeting will be dedicated to discuss the nomination of Prime the Republic. "
He added that "the National Alliance candidate for the post of prime minister to be delayed a long time because of the lack of agreement so far the coalition to nominate a candidate because the coalition of state law still adheres candidate through Nuri al-Maliki, who is rejected by the parties of the National Alliance, as well as other blocs."
Ani explained that "the reason behind the hold-Maliki law is to make the current government last longer and be a caretaker government," noting that "the masses will have a position in the event of continued it into more than that."
The Council of Representatives of Iraq, in the (15 July 2014), its third meeting of the fourth session of Parliament, headed by the President of the older Mehdi al-Hafez, and the presence of 207 deputies, the county coalition of national led by Iyad Allawi, which has seen its election Salim al-chairman of the parliament to succeed Osama Najafi, Haider Abadi and First Vice President of the Parliament, and Aram Ali Mohammed and second deputy then decided to House Speaker Salim al, adjourn the meeting to next Wednesday to choose a new president.
Sadoun to / NINA /: Fuad Masum is the Kurdish blocs' candidate for the post of President
24/07/2014 09:20:00
BAGHDAD / NINA / MP, of the Kurdistan Alliance, Muhsin al-Sadoun said that the leading figure of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan PUK, Fuad Masum is the candidate for the Kurdistan blocs for the post of President of the Republic.
Sadoun told the National Iraqi News Agency / NINA / today that "a meeting was held, late last night, in Baghdad was attended by a number of Kurdish leaders to choose the candidate for the presidency between the leaders of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, Fuad Masum and Barham Salih, where they chose Masum.
He added: "Masum got 30 votes, while his rival, Barham Salih got 23 votes," noting: "The Kurdish blocs will present him to the Presidency of the Council of Representatives on Thursday morning.
The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) and the Kurdistan Democratic Party, held a meeting yesterday in the building of the political bureau of the Patriotic Union in the city of Erbil.
The Web site of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) cited that "The meeting discussed the current political situation in Iraq and Kurdistan, and the issue of resolving the candidate of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) for the post of President of the Republic."
Prime Minister's file is thorny and complex
24/07/2014 09:30:00
BAGHDAD / NINA / MP, of the Ahrar bloc, Hakim al-Zamili said that talks between the parties of the Iraqi National Alliance to nominate a person for the post of prime minister are still without a result.
Zamili told the National Iraqi News Agency / NINA /[SIZE=3] "The file of prime minister is the most important file among other three presidencies," pointing out that "the Sunni political blocs have chosen Salim al-Jubouri as the chairman of the House of Representatives and the Kurdish groups have agreed on a personal as President of the Republic, and remaining file is the post of Prime Minister. "[/SIZE]
He added: "The name of Prime Minister will be resolved next week, after the religious authority, popular forces and regional and neighboring countries, confirmed the need to resolve this file as soon as possible."
He said: "choosing prime minister with wide admissibility will be a positive factor towards the calm and solving many problems in the country," noting: "The religious authority was clear in its speech, that the candidate must be accepted nationally, and this does not exist at the current Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, who has problems with the Ahrar and the citizen blocs on one hand, and with the Sunnis and Kurds, on the other hand. "
He explained that there is more than one character to be a substitute for Maliki in the next phase, from inside the Dawa Party, and the National Coalition has two candidates, Ahmed Chalabi and Adel Abdul-Mahdi, therefore, the process of selecting one of the characters will be a thorny and complex. "
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