First — The ISCI liked the Sadrists’ pre-election nom­i­na­tion idea and started their own pre-election to choose can­di­dates to com­pete for the com­ing election.

What is going on in the Par­lia­ment for days (and I think this will take at least a week) is that the Pres­i­dency of the Par­lia­ment hold meet­ings with the heads of par­lia­men­tary blocs with the pres­ence of the UN rep­re­sen­ta­tive in Iraq Ad(rianus) Melkrt to dis­cuss the pro­posal made by the United Nations on Kirkuk to help pass the elec­tion law.

A mod­i­fied ver­sion of the pre­vi­ous UN deci­sion sug­gested, but this time the pro­posal is rejected by the Kurds (5 seats Kurds — 4 seats oth­ers “Arabs and Christians”).

Seats num­bers is the not the only prob­lem with Kirkuk right now. There are “sub-problems” also, such as the vot­ers reg­is­tra­tion. Arabs and Turk­men reject the recent reg­is­tra­tion say­ing that Kurds have reg­is­tered about 700.000 Kurds in Kirkuk to change the demog­ra­phy of the province.

Another sub-problem is that the Kurds reject divid­ing Kirkuk into election-districts (Kurds, Arabs and Chris­tians), while this demand is wel­comed by non-Kurds.

MPs pointed out to the rea­son behind the col­lapse of all ini­tia­tives to bridge the gap between the Arabs and Turk­men on one side and between the Kurds on the other on Kirkuk issue. MP Omar Jubouri said :

The Arabs and Turk­men sup­ported by more than 100 par­lia­ment mem­bers, with their demand of equal mem­bers of seats in Kirkuk’s Council.

Cen­sus and ref­er­en­dum are the points put as side-notes in arti­cle 140, but the prob­lem is that none of these steps has been applied by the Iraqi government.