Con­fi­den­tial infor­ma­tion, avail­able from Fri­day and Saturday’s meet­ings among polit­i­cal Blocs and par­ties, reveal that the Par­lia­ment is going to veto Al-Hashemi’s veto despite the call of Jalal Tal­a­bani to dis­cuss the veto positively.

Shi­ite par­ties will use the Fed­eral Court opin­ion and Sistani’s con­cerns to argue their case in today’s (Sat­ur­day) meeting.

How­ever, sources revealed that the Fed­eral Court’s deci­sion did not add any­thing new, except the con­fir­ma­tion of Hashimi’s argu­ment (One seat per 100 thou­sand Iraqis) with­out decid­ing if Hashimi’s posi­tion con­sti­tu­tional or not.

Maliki’s Dawa party has suc­ceeded in mobi­liz­ing the required votes to veto the veto, which means that Hashimi would will veto the law again.

There are also infor­ma­tion that the Kur­dish coali­tion will allow the law to pass, after receiv­ing the green light from the Shi­ite par­ties to increase the Kur­dish seats after the Min­is­ter of Trade hinted that there are con­tra­dic­tions between the num­ber of Kurds allowed to votes reported by the min­istries of trade and planning.

P.S.

I wrote this post this morn­ing, before the start of the par­lia­ment ses­sion. Last infor­ma­tion says that the Par­lia­ment wasn’t able to reach a deal, but Iraqi MP Haider Al-Abadi con­firmed on Twit­ter the fol­low­ing: The ten­dency is to refuse VP veto and return the law as is.

Another Iraqi MP Nasar Al-Rubai revealed that Par­lia­ment is dis­cussing, three new options pro­posed by the UN.