May 4, 2010Speaker: Prime Minister's coalition decided to "state law" and "national"
Baghdad 4 May (Akaniwz) - A spokesman for the Coalition led by state law, Nuri al-Maliki, on Tuesday evening, said the prime minister had been resolved in his coalition with the Iraqi National Coalition after the announcement of their merger is official today.
He said Hassani told Kurdistan News (Akaniwz) that "the integration of coalition rule of law and the National Coalition, which formally announced this evening (Tuesday) to resolve the issue of the prime minister's favor, because they have become the largest bloc in the next parliament."
He explained that "total number of seats coalitions has 159 seats, and in need of four seats to get to half + 1 to form the largest bloc, which enable it to form the new government," noting that "the talks (held) between the joint committees of coalitions leading up to the merger, and focused on Government program for the next prime minister. "
The coalition announced legs of the Iraqi National Coalition and the rule of law, on Tuesday evening, for a formal merger in an effort to form a parliamentary bloc, the largest within the Council of Representatives.
The leader of the Movement for National Reform Abdul Razzaq al-Kazimi told a news conference that the coalition of state law and the Iraqi National Coalition agreed to form a parliamentary bloc through their alliance, pointing out that this alliance is "an essential step to open up to the rest of the Iraqi national forces."
And got a list of coalition rule of law, led by Prime Minister Nuri outgoing Nuri al-Maliki on 89 seats out of 325 seats, while I got a list of the Iraqi National Coalition 70 seats in the elections held on 7 March last year.
While stressing the Iraqi List led by former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said the Iraqi Constitution authorizes the formation of the government due to their access to the highest votes in the elections on the basis of Article 76 of the Iraqi Constitution, which referred to the president assigns the president of the largest faction to form a government.
Negotiations have stalled between the list of coalition rule of law and the Iraqi National Alliance two weeks ago against the backdrop of state law rejected the nomination of an alternative to al-Maliki as prime minister, but returned recently and resulted in the integration declaration after their meeting today.
