Maliki’s days are numbered

Only two ago, I reported that Maliki’s days are num­bered, but it seems that this will hap­pened faster than I thought.

I told you before; Allawi is cook­ing some­thing, and the link below explains recent Allawi’s activ­i­ties with Al-Hakim and Sistani.

Reported exclu­sively by Ipairaq through anony­mous par­lia­men­tary sources, that polit­i­cal blocs in the par­lia­ment are seri­ously dis­cussing the with­drawal of con­fi­dence from Maliki:

A new alliance con­tains (the two Kur­dish par­ties, Supreme Coun­cil, Islamic Party and Al-Iraqiya List) is prepar­ing itself at the national and regional level for the last cru­cial con­fronta­tion round against Maliki and his allies (Dawa Party, Dawa Party – Iraq, Al-Fadhila, Sadrists, National Dialogue).

With­draw con­fi­dence can achieved in Par­lia­ment by obtain­ing the sim­ple major­ity (50%+1 = 138 vote), which makes the votes of the inde­pen­dent MPs very important.

What are Maliki’s options?

Iraqi writer Abu Moham­mad Al-Ansari answers: close to nothing:

Maliki is try­ing to block any attempt to be impeached by the par­lia­ment, espe­cially with the recent news about the strong pos­si­bil­ity of form­ing an alliance by the Kurds, Shi­ites and Sun­nis, prompted by the grow­ing sense of a pos­si­ble change in the polit­i­cal game in Iraq.

They will be very happy to leave Maliki alone in any con­fronta­tion cre­ated by the Americans.

But accord­ing to the writer, there is one last untrusted option for Maliki:

Maliki needs Sistani’s sup­port to pre­vent Al-Hakim from using the cri­sis to achieve gains, which could make a dif­fer­ences in Amer­i­can agenda, but would Sis­tani do it? or he keep Silent.

The first indi­ca­tion came when Sistani’s funded Al-Furat TV dropped the line of Maliki crit­i­ciz­ing Biden.