News roundup

- Dawa — Sadrists are very close to join one coali­tion, but they will use a “strange” title to name this coali­tion: The “Gen­eral Ser­vice Front” as revealed by the Dawa mem­ber Al-Sunaid.

- The long inter­view with Ammar Al-Hakim on Al-Arabiya can be sum­ma­rized with these words:

We are pre­view­ing our rhetoric, pro­gram, and we froze the talks all the talks about the fed­er­al­ism long time ago.

- A short report on Al-Watan on the small Kur­dish par­ties, and their prepa­ra­tion for the com­ing elec­tion in Kurdistan.

- The Kur­dis­tan Islamic Union.

- The Demo­c­ra­tic Social­ist Party.

- The Islamic Group.

- Kur­dis­tan Workers.

Still unde­cided if they join in one coali­tion to face the big two [PUK and KDP], but the split among Talbani’s KDP is some kind of relief for the “smalls”.