Report: US envoy begins talks to form the next Iraqi government

With the aim of speeding up the formation of the next government , the US envoy to the international alliance against Da’ash, Brett McGurk, began talks in Baghdad yesterday with a number of Iraqi leaders , including the leader of the wisdom movement Ammar al-Hakim and Iraqi parliament speaker Salim al-Jubouri.

This called for the leader of the Sadrist movement all political parties, to respect the results of the elections and non-interference in the affairs of the Electoral Commission.

Al-Sharq Al-Awsat newspaper quoted an official source as saying on condition of anonymity that “the features of the political map in Iraq have become clear in the light of the informal results so far, although close to reality indicates a convergence between parties that were originally close in terms of Visions and programs can make the task of forming the next government easier, than expected.

The source added that« the features of the formation of a blockIncluding Haider al-Abadi, Muqtada al-Sadr, Ammar al-Hakim, Iyad Allawi, Osama Najafi and perhaps Massoud Barzani began to clear at the expense of al-Maliki and al-Amri and Karbali and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan and change. “McGowork’s visit is moving in this direction, he said.

He arrived in the province of Kurdistan on Monday to hold meetings with the leadership of Kurdistan.

The preliminary data indicated yesterday that the coalition «victory» led by Prime Minister Haider Abadi ranked first, while conflicting reports on the second place, which appears to be competing between the alliance «Saroon», led by the leader of the Sadrist movement Moqtada al-Sadr, Al-Fath, “a group of factions in the” popular popular “militia supported by Iran, headed by Hadi al-Amiri.

The Kurdistan Democratic Party , led by President Massoud Barzani, issued the Kurdish electoral scene as well as Nineveh province, according to preliminary semi-official results, and won the majority of seats in the capital Erbil, 8 seats out of 16. In Dohuk by 9 seats out of 11. 7 out of the 31 seats in the province of Nineveh, which is controlled by the federal authorities since the liberation from the grip of «Dahesh» in August last.

For his part, said Atheel Nujaifi, a leader in the coalition of the leadership of his brother Osama Najafi, the newspaper that «talk about the formation of the government in this atmosphere of weak voting and rejection of major blocs of the election results is the process of pushing Iraq into the cycle of crisis without seeking a solution»

The Electoral Commission decided to use the mechanism of counting and counting in dozens of polling stations in the capital Baghdad, and comes after the submission of a number of lists complaints to the Commission of the existence of cases of fraud and failure in the organs of electronic voting.

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