Parliament reached an agreement, law passed

Tarek Al-Hashimi’s web­site is blocked since yes­ter­day to pre­vent Iraqis [espe­cially abroad] from read­ing his update or to show their sup­port, so I can not con­firm all the infor­ma­tion I will report here.

The par­lia­ment reached an agree­ment (while I am writ­ing this), the vot­ing process is  on a new ini­tia­tive made by INA to dis­trib­ute the votes of the dis­placed Iraqis on the provinces (no fur­ther details, but MP Haider Al-Abadi thinks that Hashimi will veto the law again) [as far as I know, Barzani’s cri­sis is not solved yet].

But at least we have some­thing revealed today, Sis­tani advised Shi­ites par­ties to avoid veto­ing Hashimi’s veto.

Hashimi sent a let­ter (an answer to a let­ter sent to Hashimi by 12 blocs in the par­lia­ment) ask­ing the par­lia­ment to dis­cus three point:

- How the par­lia­ment is going to solve the seats of the Iraqis abroad issue!

- Do the par­lia­ment rec­og­nizes his veto as con­sti­tu­tional or not!

- The par­lia­ment must con­firm that a del­e­ga­tion met with Hashimi and asked him to with­draw his veto.

The par­lia­ment will dis­cus the let­ter today, but send­ing such let­ter is seen as a sign weak­ness from Hashimi, espe­cially after reports pub­lished on Elaph say that the Amer­i­can ambas­sador in Bagh­dad Christo­pher Hill pres­sured Hashimi to with­draw his veto:

The U.S. ambas­sador Christo­pher Hill is seen mov­ing between the cor­ri­dors of the par­lia­ment con­tact­ing the Iraqi MPs, with­out giv­ing any new proposals.

Another report says that the Amer­i­can ambas­sador, stayed for two hours talk­ing to the MPs, there is no men­tion about pres­sure on Hashimi.