November 11, 2010Election of the Speaker and the President today
Follow-up of the Federation: decided to leaders and representatives of the political blocs, on Wednesday, a parliamentary session on Thursday to elect a Speaker and President of the Republic, which ended Wednesday evening meeting of leaders and representatives of the political blocs to agree on a candidate for the post of President of the Republic, where he was President Jalal Talabani, the support blocks to renew his mandate as blocs agreed to support the nomination of current Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki for a second term as prime minister.
The agreement included for the existing Iraqi Presidency of the parliament and the presidency of Council policies, but Iraq has not set its candidate for the Presidency of the parliament.
Sources familiar with the MP Osama al-Najafi, the head of Iraqi internalized in the Iraqi List aspires to obtain the position of Speaker of Parliament, the sources said Najafi told his desire to some of the parties present at the negotiations held at the home of Kurdistan leader Massoud Barzani.
On the other hand, the sources told the U.S. side gave up the idea of giving the presidency to the Iraqi list after the collision rejected the Kurdish and the insistence of the Kurdistan Alliance to hold on to the presidency, a benefit nationwide, also saw the meeting yesterday a proposal to elect an interim president to the parliament but the proposal did not receive the acceptance of the negotiating parties, On the other hand has been postponed a parliament session to the third hour of the afternoon of Thursday to make way for Iraq to resolve its candidate for the Presidency of the parliament.
She also said sources familiar with the current moderation and 38 deputies of other Iraqi List, met earlier at the home of Deputy Prime Minister Rafie al-Issawi and expressed their displeasure with the County Allawi and al-Hashemi for the Tuesday meeting and discussed at the meeting crucial topics, including the launch of candidates for the Presidency of the parliament and the political council in the event of County Allawi Al-Hashemi of the government.
The sources said that the existing Iraqi President Iyad Allawi left the meeting before the end of the second evening and it went straight to the U.S. embassy in Baghdad.
The decision of the meeting of leaders of blocs of winning the election Ruz Nuri Shaways announced Wednesday that the leaders of the blocs agreed in the first round of their meeting Wednesday to hold a parliament session on Thursday, and said Wednesday’s meeting saw agreement on the National Council of the policies of the upper and deciding the issues of accountability, justice and national reconciliation.
Shaways said at a news conference after the end of the first meeting of political leaders who held the home of Kurdish regional President Massoud Barzani in Baghdad, according to his initiative that the “leaders of political blocs agreed to hold a parliament session, Thursday, at 11 am.”
The Shaways that “the leaders agreed to resolve the sticking points that carried over from Tuesday’s meeting,” adding that “it was agreed that the National Council for Higher strategic policies, as the resolution of a file of accountability, justice and national reconciliation.” He explained that the Council resolutions Shaways policies will be binding if it obtained the support of 80%.
Saw the meeting yesterday attended by Chairman of the Iraqi List, Iyad AllawiIraqi Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi, who days missed Tuesday’s meeting, said a source close to the presidency of the Kurdistan Region, on Wednesday, the regional president Massoud Barzani, the leader of the coalition in Iraq, Iyad Allawi, met prior to the meeting the leaders of political blocs.
The meeting saw the presence of Barzani yesterday, while the absence of Mr. Ammar al-Hakim heads the Supreme Council of Islamic and attended on his behalf by Vice President Adel Abdul Mahdi, leader of the Council of the Republic.
A source close to the meeting told (Voices of Iraq) said that Iyad Allawi left the meeting held by the leaders of political blocs following the agreement of the political blocs gathered in the capital Baghdad on his assumption of the presidency of the Political Council of the strategic policy, without mentioning the source of reason to leave, but Allawi returned to the meeting after about an hour left, then left the second round heading to the U.S. embassy.
To, however, uncovered a political source close to the leaders meeting held in Baghdad, on Wednesday, “Alsumaria News”, “the Iraqi List and agreed during the meeting of leaders of political blocs to participate in the parliamentary session, which will be held on Thursday, in order to accelerate the formation of the government.”
The source, who asked not to be named, that “the leaders of political blocs agreed to assume the leader of the Iraqi List, Iyad Allawi, the presidency of the National Council for strategic policy and Osama Nujaifi Presidency of the parliament,” adding that “an altercation occurred between Osama Najafi, Saleh Mutlaq, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.”
The source continued that “the leaders of political blocs have also agreed to renew the post Rafie al-Issawi as deputy prime minister,” he says.
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