Roads to Iraq

Jul 22, 2008

Provincial election law: major defeat for the Kurds

It seems like the United Iraqi Alliance stabbed the Kurds in the back as reported by AL-Hayat and passed the provincial election law.

Interesting to see that the Kurds demands are totally ignored in the new law, which decided [article 24 point 1] that Kirkuk council election to be postponed, but for the time being:

The three main power components in Kirkuk province to share the authority with 32% to each [Kurds, Arabs, Turkmen] and 2% for the Christians.

Point 2 in the article just makes thing much worst for the Kurds:

Kirkuk’s province security issue to be handed over to military unites from the south and middle Iraqi provinces rather than the current operating unites [Kurdish military unites].

This is also a big defeat for Al Hakim’s agenda with his party [the SIIC] is in alliance with the Kurds. House speaker deputy Al-Atya [SIIC] directly issued a statement saying that the voting process in unconstitutional.

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