There is only one expla­na­tion to Maliki’s words today; to stub his Kur­dish and Shi­ites allies in the back.

In his meet­ing with tribal lead­ers [which became Maliki’s weekly rit­ual], Maliki said the following:

Offi­cial gov­ern­men­tal posts must based on effi­ciency and not accord­ing sec­tar­ian or eth­nic interests.

Sounds nice but the same thing said by the Islamic Party few days rejected by the Kurds and the Supreme Council.

Head of the Islamic Party Al-Hashmi offered to step down and reform the polit­i­cal process based on national interest.

“Elec­tion stunt” says Iraqi writer Fad­hil Al-Rubai, Islamists and reli­gious par­ties are los­ing ground and they are scor­ing very low among Iraqi vot­ers, the major polit­i­cal blocs acknowl­edge this.

The hid­den, ongo­ing con­flict with Dawa Party led by Maliki and the Supreme Islamic Coun­cil, led by Hakim, on the “Tribal Coun­cils”, is just one exam­ple of the panic level of the rise of “sec­u­lar­ism” in the south­ern provinces.

The same fear forced the Sunni blocs to admit the dilemma of the “Sec­tar­ian sys­tem”, those who call them­selves “Sunni rep­re­sen­ta­tive” them­selves par­tic­i­pated in the estab­lish­ment of this system.

Al-Rubai says that the Provin­cial elec­tion will put the first brick in the new kind alliances and prob­a­bly unex­pected allinces because pol­i­tics is not only the game of the pow­er­ful blocs, it is the game of the losers also.

To con­firm Al-Rubai essay, Al-Wasat reported that power par­ties in the south of Iraq are pay­ing $100 for each vote and makes the peo­ple swear on the Quran to vote for the party.