What will be the Supreme Council’s next step after the elec­tion of Ammar Al-Hakim as the head of the move­ment (as expected)?

Accord­ing to Al-Hayat’s Mushriq Abbas:

All the other polit­i­cal blocs in the newly formed UIA are against the “South Fed­er­a­tion”, the Supreme Coun­cil will need to sac­ri­fice this project, since it played against the move­ment last elec­tion, and very costly in the num­bers of votes.

But I think the Supreme Coun­cil will tem­po­rary “freeze” the pre­vi­ous idea.

Maliki still resists Iran’s pres­sure to make him join the UIA, despite his meet­ing with the Iran­ian head of the Quds Brigades “Qasim Sulaimani accord­ing to Kuwaiti Al-Watan, who told Maliki about the Iran­ian wishes that Dawa Party to join the UIA, warn­ing Maliki of the consequences.

Akhbar Al-Khaleej explains Maliki’s resis­tance say­ing that Maliki eye­ing his future career:

Maliki wants a writ­ten agree­ment signed by the United Iraqi Alliance, says that he will be pro­moted as a Prime Min­is­ter for the next term.

Right now, Maliki fears that one of the two (Adil Abd Al-Mehdi or Hum­mam Hamudi) to be appointed as the new head of the Supreme Coun­cil, both have more influ­ence on the other UIA fac­tions and vir­tu­ally means that the whole Gov­ern­ment is deliv­ered to the Supreme Coun­cil on a golden plate.

But with today’s reported on Al-Watan, it seems chances of Maliki to join the UIA are just get­ting harder if not impos­si­ble, Maliki two rivals are also look­ing for­ward for offi­cial posi­tions in the gov­ern­ment in the near future:

Hints and remarks that Ja’afari will be the head of the UIA, andthe Sadrists eye­ing the Prime Min­is­ter posi­tion (pre­sum­ably will sup­port AL-Ja’afari also).