For $100 a vote, sectarian system losses ground

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.

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.

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.