Thursday, November 4, 2010

Nov. 8th ~ Fuad Masum has called on Wednesday for the resumption of the first meeting of the Council next Monday, to choose a president and 2 deputies


November 4, 2010

Monday Nov. 8th ~ Meeting of parliament to choose a temporary chairman to him and waving Iraqi province - if the target return Maliki

Melkert and U.S. Ambassador will attend the round .. و«رجل دين شيعي بارز» في السعودية And a senior Shi'ite cleric in Saudi Arabia

Meeting of parliament on Monday said to choose a temporary chairman due to deadlock and waving Iraqi List

Expressed a spokesman for the Iraqi List, concern that the aim of the parliament session, which was announced to be held next Monday, is to renew the mandate of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.

He reiterates the position of mass opposition to this, as informed sources said that the House would accept the selection of “provisional president” for the purpose of discussing the budget year.

Next, noting that the extensive contacts of regional and international are willing to resolve the government’s dossier Almtlki, and some of this issue may be solved through “personal prominent Shiite” lead the pilgrimage road.

The head of Age in the House of Representatives Fuad Masum has called on Wednesday for the resumption of the first meeting of the Council next Monday, to choose a president and two deputies.

Massoum said in an official letter addressed to all the political blocs and members of the House of Representatives, “I invite members of the House of Representatives elected to attend on Monday to resume the open meeting and the election of the first President of the Council and his deputies in accordance with Article 55 of the Constitution of Iraq.” Adding that “the resumption of Parliament to hold a hearing to coincide with the Federal Court decision in the twenty-fourth of last month, the judge hearing the resumption of Parliament within two weeks.”

While spokesmen said block a coalition of state law, lead by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, said they are optimistic about the possibility that the meeting will be “crucial” for the renewal of his mandate.

According to sources familiar with the negotiations said this file see more intensive contacts, especially with regard to opposition to the Iraqi List and the Supreme Council to join a government headed by al-Maliki. The source alsosaid on condition of anonymity given the sensitivity of the information, that “prominent Shiite figure and ally of the owners currently reside now in Saudi Arabia for this purpose.”

The source did not reveal in his speech for “the world” about the identity of this character, saying only that “a senior cleric ally of Maliki, is currently on a visit to Saudi Arabia for the purpose of pilgrimage, and the purpose of the visit at this time is to hold meetings with Saudi officials,” according to he said.

The source says that the issue of the Iraqi opposition and threatened to boycott any government headed by Maliki, “the cause of embarrassment to the Shi’ite parties that want a government recognized internally, regionally and internationally, which requires the participation of the Iraqi side to satisfy the Supreme Council” headed by Ammar al-Hakim.

The said Haidar al-Mulla, spokesman for the Iraqi List told the “world”, said his bloc “may not attend the meeting next Monday if they do not agree the political forces on a political program. If that happens it means there is an attempt to set a specific government is the program and thus reproduce the experience of the previous government, which lasted four years and we have them a lot of drawbacks and reservations will we give legitimacy “.

“If the fundamental forces coincided to the program of the government work sites until Monday, we will resort to parliament, but I do not think that there will be a success for the hearing, without that there will be a national consensus about the program and sites.”

Meanwhile, a Kurdish leader Mahmoud Othman told the “world”, said everyone was “going to the parliament without a deal, even now did not conclude anything definitive.”

Mohsen al-Sadoun, a leader of another Kurdish bloc said Monday’s session “is supposed to be elected as President of the Parliament, his deputies and then take the Parliament its oversight role, legislative, and then have a period of time to choose the President of the Republic, who will in turn as prime minister, namely, that the first session will be devoted only to the Speaker and his deputies” .

But a source familiar with within the National Alliance, said that the parliament session to be held will choose interim president of the parliament. The source, who declined to be named the “world”, “The Parliament will hold a hearing for choosing the head of an interim parliament to be agreed upon by all political parties.” And whether it will move to the selection of the President of the Republic source said: “I do not think so, because the election of the President of the Republic needs to two-thirds parliamentary vote,” adding that “the purpose of choosing a speaker is to give another chance for the parties to the political order that they reach agreement on the three presidencies” .

He predicted that being awarded the post to one of the small blocs, saying “the post would go on a temporary basis either to Iyad al-Samarrai (former parliament speaker and a member of the Accordance Front) as he has experience in the management of Parliament, or to go to the character of the Christian minority in parliament,” he says.

And the purpose of selecting an interim president to the parliament said, “intended to pass the budget year 2011, will put the Minister of Finance (Bayan Jabr) in parliament, which will alleviate the hopelessness and despair popular in the country.”

At the level of dialogue between the political blocs, particularly with regard to the Kurds and their adherence to the position of the presidency source said that “the Kurds, is clinging to the position of presidency in full, but they in turn do not want to concede so easily.”Considering phone call made by U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden, Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, the night before last “evidence of attempts by the United States to persuade Taliban to give up the presidency of the republic.”

The source said that the invitation to attend the round table “has been directed to the leaders of blocs and the most prominent al-Maliki, Allawi, as well as Massoud Barzani (President of the Kurdistan region) and Talabani as well as to the leader of the Supreme Council (Ammar Alehikm) and Vice President Adel Abdul-Mahdi,” noting that “the call also been directed to the Minister of Interior Jawad al (Leader of the mass and unity of Iraq). “

And the participation of the UN source said: “United Nations will be strongly present through its Head of Mission in Iraq, Ad Melkert, as well as was the case with the Americans through the American Ambassador.”

On the possibility of post-Maliki at a meeting of the Round Table, especially as the National Alliance said that he would send a delegation to the table said, “The Americans were able to persuade al-Maliki in the presence of the table under pressure”, adding: “As for Sadr and the Virtue Party had been invited on the basis that invitations were extended to lists that have a candidate for the presidency of one of the three presidential positions, and this applies to Iraqi rule of law and the Supreme Council as well as from the Kurdistan Alliance. “

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