Monday, May 24th 2010Iraqiya rails against State of Law for comment about distributing posts
Baghdad, A leader of the Iraqiya List led by Iyad Allawi on Monday railed against a recent statement by the State of Law Coalition member, Abdul Hadi Hassani, that Iraqiya will get the post of the President of the next Parliament.
Shaker Ketab of Iraqiya said the State of law Coalition shouldn’t distribute the posts as it likes and how it wants, noting that the "Iraqiya has an electoral right and that all the winning political blocs have to respect it"
Iraqiya List demands to be assigned with forming the next government because it was the top vote-getter in the March 7 polls.
"Al-Hassani's latest statements in which he distributes sovereign posts before going back to the political blocs is an attempt to disregard the constitution and abolish democracy in Iraq and it is disrespectful to the Iraqi people's will" he said, adding "attempts by some political blocs to form the next government away from Iraqiya is a lost effort because Iraqiya will not accept but its electoral right,"
The Iraqi National Alliance (INA) led by Ammar Al-Hakim which gained 70 seats in next parliament and the State of Law Coalition which won 89 seats have announced their alliance after more than a month of negotiations which came to a halt because of the dispute over naming the prime minister.
Iraqiya has several times threatened to withdraw from the political process in case the constitution and the election results were not considered.Al-Hassani, confirmed earlier that the chairmanship of the new Parliament would go to Iraqiya List. We do not want to underestimate the electoral right of Iraqiya list, he said.
The Federal Court has interpreted article 76 of the Iraqi constitution which stipulates that the "the largest bloc" can form the government as: either the bloc that was a stand-alone list in the elections and gained the largest number of seats or the bloc that was formed by merging more than one electoral list after the elections to put together a majority.
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