Election conflict intensifies

- Under the title “Par­ties con­flict inten­si­fies”, Lebanese Al-Mustaqbal pub­lished a very inter­est­ing report about INA’s next plan to iso­late Maliki:

The Iraqi pres­i­dency Coun­cil (Tal­a­bani, Adil Abdul Mahdi and Hashimi) to a new law before the Par­lia­ment that will with­draw Maliki’s gov­ern­ment from all pow­ers and turned it into “care­taker gov­ern­ment” that shall not take any deci­sion or action that may ben­e­fit of the Prime Min­is­ter and his “State of Law” coali­tion in the com­ing election.

The new law sug­gests that all the government’s author­i­ties to be trans­ferred to the Pres­i­dency Council.

Al-Mustaqbal’s sources said that the new law is already before the par­lia­ment since last Thurs­day, and Adil Abdul Mahdi is the behind the idea.

On the same issue, AKI reported that Maliki’s “State of Law” coali­tion rejected this move from the Pres­i­den­tial Coun­cil because it is unconstitutional.

- After long wait, “job­less” Muwafaq Al-Ruba’i and his recently formed coali­tion “Al-Wasat” made up his mind to join INA (a funny take of the image that shows Al-Ruba’i announces join­ing the coali­tion, the Ara­bic word “Indhmam” = “join­ing” is writ­ten with wrong let­ter “ظ” on the ban­ner behind).

- AL-Hayat con­cluded that INA will be the widest polit­i­cal front in the elec­tion, and the “Con­sti­tu­tional Party” — led by Inte­rior Min­is­ter Al-Bolani promised a “sur­prise” wide coali­tion to be announced soon.

- Al-Wasat expects that some of the lead­ers of small polit­i­cal blocs who joined Maliki’s coali­tion will change posi­tion to join INA.

- Yes­ter­day, Ur Agency quoted Jalal Al-Din Al-Saghir saying:

Form­ing a coali­tion with Allawi doesn’t mean form­ing a coali­tion with Allawi’s allies

That is Al-Mutlaq’s “National Dia­logue” who recently formed a coali­tion with Allawi.