Maliki — Sadr alliance

This is become a fact and not only rumors, revealed today that an alliance between Maliki and Al-Sadr sup­ported bloc “Lib­er­als”, Al-Kinani from the “Lib­er­als” said today that both blocs will share Bagh­dad and to include other provinces also.

needed some kind Sistani’s bless­ing [or per­mis­sion to suc­ceed Maliki in the future]. Allawi also made it very clear in his press con­fer­ence after the meet­ing that there is no such idea of form­ing an alliance with Al-Hakim.

Al-Hakim became a pariah; Moham­mad Shabout

The writer doesn’t say it directly, but in his expla­na­tion of the cur­rent provin­cial sit­u­a­tion you can con­clude that the reli­gious par­ties are still dom­i­nat­ing the power in the provinces. Using Kar­bala as an exam­ple he said:

There 27 seats in Kar­bala province, the one who won most of the votes 13,3% is Al-Habubi, but still he can occupy one seat only because he entered the elec­tion as an inde­pen­dent with­out list. In this case, he is unable to be an active or an influ­en­tial mem­ber of the council.

It is likely, and pos­si­ble, that all the other blocs such as the Supreme Coun­cil, the Librals [Sadrists], Maliki, Shahid Al-Mihrab [Hakim], and Al-Fadhila, who are all Islamic blocks will con­trol the province coun­cil and will ensure the mar­gin­al­ize the sec­u­lar Habubi.