The announce­ment of the for­ma­tion of the (Iraqi National Move­ment) set the elec­tion plan of the Iraqi polit­i­cal Islam (espe­cially the Shi­ites par­ties) in more chaos than it already is.

The Shiite-Shiite par­ties equa­tion itself in a com­plete dis­ar­ray, bypass­ing Iran’s pres­sure, ignor­ing Sistani’s rec­om­men­da­tions, and Maliki accuses INA of being on Iran’s pay­roll.

The Iraqi gov­ern­ment fail­ure to absorb the oppo­si­tion groups, con­trol the secu­rity issue and the sec­tar­ian ten­sions have opened the door for other polit­i­cal forces to pass through the nar­row cor­ri­dor of the Iraqi polit­i­cal process.

Sec­tar­ian enti­ties and even eth­nic (Kurds are now with three major blocs) means that par­ties which have been taken away in the past, started to look for a new role.

An anti-sectarian coali­tion comes as Ba’ath-alternative after the fail­ure of the cur­rent Iraqi regime to build an insti­tu­tional state.

INM is sup­ported by some Arab regimes who expressed con­cerns of the Iran­ian influ­ence in Iraq and the region which started to affect U.S. agen­das and plans.

Feel­ing threat­ened, alarmed, and using the above points, all reli­gious par­ties started to attack the Allawi-Mutlaq INM coalition.

The Sadrists pub­lished an arti­cle today which reflects their fears saying:

This alliance [INM] is the most seri­ous chal­lenge to the Iraqis who oppose the Baath Party and the return of the for­mer regime’s sym­bols to power through the polit­i­cal process, … This new coali­tion “Iraqi National Move­ment” will be the ” mother” coali­tion [newS­abah reported that other polit­i­cal par­ties will join this coali­tion] , which will attract coali­tions and other Sunni blocs … This coali­tion uses the inter­na­tional sup­port, from Saudi Ara­bia and the UAE, as well as the US and the UK … Sooner or later Boulani’s “Iraqi Unity will join INM.

Influ­en­tial Shi­ite cler­ics also warned of a plan to put the Baath Party in power. Sadr al-Din al-Qabanji in Fri­day ser­mon accused the US and Arab coun­tries of pres­sur­ing the cur­rent gov­ern­ment to hold a rec­on­cil­i­a­tion with the Baathists. This was the com­mon sub­ject in many Fri­day sermons.

Maliki, orga­nized an anti-Baathists con­fer­ence called “Build­ing the new Iraq can not be accom­plished with­out a De-Ba’athification cam­paign”, in his speech in the con­fer­ence he asked the Par­lia­ment to not allow the return of the Baathists.