September 1, 2010
VP Abdul-Mahdi enjoys best chances to form new govt., Iraq’s National Alliance member says
BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: A member of Iraq’s National Alliance, Habib Al-Tarfy, said on Wednesday that Vice-President Adel Abdul-Mahdi “is the candidate that enjoys best chances to chair the new government, because he is ‘accepted’ by all political parties.”
“We have demanded the Dawlat al-Qanoon (State of Law) Alliance, led by Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki, to replace Maliki, for many reasons, most important of which had been the improper achievement of his government. Although we have no personal difference with him, there is a difference towards the government’s program, whilst the people are waiting for changes,” Tarfy told Aswat al-Iraq. He added that “the demand to replace Maliki is both an old and a new demand.”
The Iraqi political arena is witnessing ongoing differences among the political blocs, that won the largest number of votes in March 7th nationwide elections, in the background of their competition to gain the prime minister’s post and the formation of the new government, especially between al-Iraqiya bloc, led by former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi and the State of Law bloc, led by Nouri al-Maliki.
But neither of the two winning blocs have managed to form the forthcoming government alone.
Speaking about the U.S. combat troops withdrawal from Iraq, that took place on August 31st, 2010, Tarfi, who is a leader in the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council, led by Ammar Al-Hakim, said, “There is a U.S.-Iraqi security agreement, reiterating that the U.S. troops withdrawal is among its articles.”
“There have however been irresponsible statements about the Iraqi Army and the Security Forces’ readiness to taken on the task,” he said. He expressed his aim to demand the extension of the U.S. troops existence in Iraq, according to his viewpoint.
He said the U.S. troops withdrawal “shall be considered as an achievement for U.S. President Obama and his Democratic Party. Our view however is that we see that the withdrawal is a positive state that took place within the time schedule needed, but it took place with the complex of non-formation of the new Iraqi government until now.”
Meanwhile, U.S. mass media recently reported that Washington had spent about one trillion US dollars and lost more than 4,400 soldiers and over 100,000 Iraqi civilians killed since the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Tarfi also said that the delay of the formation of the new Iraqi government “shall expose the political process to face a dark path, along with a course with bad goals, hence demanding that the U.S. troops withdrawal must be accompanied by the acceleration of the formation of the new Iraqi government.”
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