I will explain this before I start today’s development.
Maliki and the Shiite parties are heading to veto Hashimi’s veto, this very simple and they are already managed to obtain the simple majority to do this, but Hashimi’s second veto will be a big problem for the Shiite parties because to veto the second veto, the parliament needs the agreement of 4/5 of the total votes (that is 186 from 275), which hard to achieve.
As expected the parliament failed to achieve any solution today to solve the crisis, but despite the failure, Ur Agency reported that the crisis will be solved within 48 hours.
Intensive contacts are underway among Al-Hashimi, Iyad Samarrai (house speaker), and Faraj Haidari the head of IHEC, agreed to end the crisis (sources told Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Rai that this crisis can not be solved only with a “political-deal” among the political blocs)
The news agency added that a proposed amendment agreed upon by the all political blocs, and accepted by the Kurdish Alliance, but rejected by the Accordance Front, because it will be at the expense of its share of seats in the parliament.
The two proposal discussed today are:
- A proposal made by the United Nations is to increase the number of seats to 10% instead of 5% — 8 seats for minorities, 12 seats for displaced abroad and 12 seats for the displaced inside Iraq (rejected by Maliki’s Dawa Party)
- A proposal made by the Kurdish Alliance is to submit 275 MPs and to increase in population growth rate of 3%.
The U.S. role in the election crisis
A new released study by Itjahat Hurra Organization confirms my argument about that this crisis is indirect setup by the U.S.
The study says that The U.S. side prefers a “new face” Iraqi politician for the future government, likely to be current Interior Minister Jawad al-Bolani who is the best person for this position.
Washington realized that it is very important to get rid of the regional and international dominance on the Iraqi political scene. A Qatar — Iran agenda blessed by the U.S. to support certain parties in Iraq, facing a Saudi Arabia — Syria — Turkey agenda which blessed by Washington also, pressuring hard for the support of other parties.