2010-08-16Talabani: There is talk that I announced my support for the owners and this is not true
Jalal Talabani said he did not support the candidacy of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki for a second term, but at the same time do not put a red line it, saying that be divided behind the block formation of the government.
Talabani said split the Shiite ranks - The reason for the delay in forming the next government , pointing out that in the previous election was a Shiite house in uniform , and therefore able to identify the candidate for prime minister by a single vote, but now they divided themselves.
As Talabani pointed out that there is the problem in Article 76 of the Constitution which provides for the formation of the government by the largest bloc , and this raises the conflict between my state of law ( Maliki's), which is an alliance (with the National Coalition led by Ammar al-Hakim ) the largest bloc in the While Iraq (led by Iyad Allawi, former Prime Minister) considers itself the largest bloc in accordance with the elections.
He denied Talabani had not been declared support for the re- Maliki's nomination , said there is talk that I announced my support for the owners and this is not true, I said specifically that we do not have a red line towards Maliki's nomination, and this applies to Allawi, also , we do not put a veto on one, but not Barzani nor I were able to propose the nomination of a prime minister of Iraq.
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