The opposition’s strategy to crash Maliki’s government

Maliki’s chances for a sec­ond term are shrink­ing, and what left for the “State of Law” is the gam­ble on the party’s pre­vi­ous expe­ri­ence in the provin­cial elec­tions when the party man­aged to defeat the ISCI, the Sadrists and the “Accor­dance Front”.

Sadrists offi­cially announced their rejec­tion for Maliki’s sec­ond term, and for sure the Sadr­sists also warned [the ISCI] against the South-Federation plan (Awan noticed the dis­ap­pear­ance of the “Fed­er­al­ism” from the elec­tion campaign) .

This doesn’t mean the end of the nego­ti­a­tion with Maliki’s “State of Law”, accord­ing to Kuwaiti Al-Watan: Early results of the nego­ti­a­tions between Maliki’s “Sate of Law and ISCI are more promis­ing than before”, but…

Three con­di­tions put by Maliki to join INA coalition

- To be Iraq’s prime min­is­ter for a sec­ond term.

- Three key min­istries to be his party’s share (Inte­rior Min­istry, Elec­tric­ity Min­istry +1 most likely Oil Ministry).

- Decision-making in the lead­er­ship of the United Iraqi Alliance (55% of the seats).

No chance that these con­di­tions will accepted, Maliki already started to talk about a “con­spir­acy” against him by other “coali­tions”, Dawa Party already issued instruc­tions to its mem­bers and sub-organizations to be care­ful and cau­tious about what it called “highly sen­si­tive chal­lenges”, includ­ing armed attacks against cit­i­zens and the state’s inter­ests cre­at­ing insta­bil­ity and inse­cu­rity in the coun­try forc­ing the party to join the National Alliance.

In this con­text, sources revealed that the oppo­si­tion forces gave instruc­tions to its media, (includ­ing satel­lite chan­nels and news­pa­pers belong­ing to reli­gious par­ties) to launch a smear cam­paign ahead of  the elec­tion against the gov­ern­ment and Maliki using archives, images and movies, to tar­get the recent secu­rity and the return of nor­mal life from the reli­gious per­spec­tive, com­par­ing it to pre-occupation era.

Imams in the mosques, in their cer­e­monies instructed to con­demn the unlim­ited num­ber of night­clubs, bars and Alco­hol stores in some cities, to be pre­sented as “con­demn­ing the rul­ing of Islam” by Dawa Pary.