Parliament disputed points

First update on the election:

- For­mer head of the Intel­li­gence ser­vice Al-Shahwani will enter the polit­i­cal arena as a can­di­date. Unknown if he will form his own list or joins one of the lists.

- In press con­fer­ence held today, 32 polit­i­cal blocs and par­ties announced join­ing a coali­tion with Allawi’s “Iraqi List” (see the list of the 32 blocs below).

The blocs vary from tribal chiefs to inde­pen­dents such as “Pachachi”, but there is one inter­est­ing and lit­tle known Dawa Party split group “The Cadres of Islamic Dawa”.

Here are the details about this group:

It was a small orga­ni­za­tion called “The Cadres of Islamic Move­ment” inside” Dawa Party, the orga­ni­za­tion announced the split from in Syria –1991, the Move­ment jus­ti­fied the split for these three reasons:

1– The absence of the real mature Islamic initiative.

2– The lack of Islamic action, and the exter­nal influ­ence of Iran­ian Shi’ite Islamists.

3– The lack of tak­ing advan­tage of the exter­nal fac­tors in benifit of Iraq.

Dis­puted points in the Parliament

- Dis­puted on Kirkuk province — pro­pos­als from the Arabs to post­pone the elec­tions, as had hap­pened in the last provin­cial coun­cil elec­tions, while the Kurds reject this proposal.

- The open and closed lists: Most polit­i­cal blocs pre­fer a closed list, because it allows them to choose the can­di­dates them­selves to be mem­bers of par­lia­ment (I will post more detailed arti­cle about this soon).

- Sin­gle– or multi-constituency elec­toral districts.

- The increase the num­ber of seats in Par­lia­ment from 275 to 310.

The list:

- Iraq’s Loy­alty — (Hus­sein Sha’alan).

- The Cen­tral Coun­cil of the Iraqi and Arab Tribal chiefs — a gath­er­ing from 11 provinces — (Sheikh Ali Fares).

- The Inde­pen­dents Tent — Najaf (Sayed Qas­sim Abdul-Muslim Zuwein ).

- Reform and Inde­pen­dent bloc — Najaf — (Sheikh Abu Jaa­far al Baqir al-Zubaidi ).

- The authen­tic Arab Union Party — Bagh­dad — (Has­san Al Jabri al-Musawi).

- The inde­pen­dent Tribes bloc — Mosul — (Sheikh Farhan Mawla).

- Jumu’ bloc — Salah al-Din — (Sey­han Mul­lah Jiad).

- Orga­ni­za­tion of jus­tice and social devel­op­ment — Basra — (Taw­fiq Al Abbadi).

- House of Com­mons of the Iraqi National (Sheikh Saad al-Hamdani Khudair).

- Alexan­der Witwit Inde­pen­dent bloc — Baby­lon — (Alexan­der Witwit).

- National Unity bloc — Baby­lon — (Basim Al-Janabi).

- Qais al-Mamouri bloc — Baby­lon — (Safa Maamouri).

- Inde­pen­dent Front of Ham­rin Sheikhs — Diyala — (Rokan Sheikh Ibrahim).

- The Inde­pen­dent Iraq — Bagh­dad — (Ma’moul Nisan).

- National Front for Free Iraq — Ramadi — (Hamid Jumaili).

- The National Inde­pen­dents — Bagh­dad — (Fat­tah al-Sheikh).

- The Gath­er­ing Coun­cils of Peace and Build — Bagh­dad — (Muthana al-Azzawi).

- The Iraqi Peo­ple Move­ment — Bagh­dad — (Nuri al-Rawi).

- Iraq Devel­op­ment — Bagh­dad — (Salam Zobai).

- Inde­pen­dent Democ­rats Move­ment — (Dr. Adnan Pachachi).

- National Front — (Sheikh Adnan al-Janabi).

- The Iraqi Inde­pen­dent — (Falah Has­san al-Naqib).

- The peo­ple Upris­ing of 1991 — (Shom­ran prey Shibli).

- United Arab — (Farouk al-Dulaimi).

- Iraqi Unions — (Wisam al-Jaff).

- National Change (d. Ali Khal­ifa al-Dulaimi).

- The 15 August Move­ment — (Mus­lim Taher Jaber).

- National Inde­pen­dent bloc (Hatem Hadi).

- Iraqi inde­pen­dent Bloc Coun­cil (Rasoul Danan).

- The Caders of Islamic Dawa Party — (Abdel Rah­man Abu Ragif).

- The National Patri­otic Front — (Shi­hab Ahmed Al Rashidi).

- Iraqi Social Move­ment (Ahmed Rokan Al-jerba).