The election law today

- The only rea­son not reported in the Times “Iraq Gov­ern­ment bans alco­hol sale” is reported here few weeks ago “The opposition’s strat­egy to crash Maliki’s gov­ern­ment”.

- What is going on right now on the elec­tion law is following:

US ambas­sador in Iraq Christo­pher R. Hill came with a plan which is rejected by the Arabs and Turk­men say­ing that his plan reached a dead end.

But Both (Arabs-Turkmen, even the Sadrists) accepted UNAMI’s plan(s) (they came with two plans:

- Cre­ate three con­stituen­cies in Kirkuk, where the seats are divided to five seats for the Kurds, Three for the Arabs and three for Turk­men (which is about the same as the cur­rent situation).

- Elect the mem­bers of the Coun­cil in Kirkuk tem­po­rary, to resign after one year. A facts-finding com­mit­tee will check the votes in this year.

The plans accepted by the Arabs and Turk­men by vetoed by the Kurds. Inde­pen­dent MP Izuldin Al-Dawla said that the Par­lia­ment is very week, nego­ti­a­tions between the big polit­i­cal blocs decide the outcome.