Update — - Mp Haider Al-Abadi just added that Shi­ite par­ties are already try­ing to gather 60% votes to veto Hashimi’s veto. — -

No need to to report today’s event, because it is sum­ma­rized by this Aljazeera report “Iraqi VP post­pones veto deci­sion” (includ­ing a video), but I need to add few things:

- The extend of the 10 days came after the exclu­sion of 4 days Eid Al-Adha.

- Just like Shi­ite par­ties orches­trat­ing demon­stra­tion against Hashimi’s veto, Sun­nis started to use the tac­tics, orches­trat­ing demon­stra­tions in Diyala province.

- This is very inter­est­ing, and we are going to hear more about it in the near future: Tal­a­bani rejected the trans­form of Maliki’s gov­ern­ment into a “care­taker” gov­ern­ment, while the whole “care­taker gov­ern­ment” idea is already signed by Talabani.

But if we read this report on Jeeran, then we under­stand what going on:

“Tal­a­bani and Maliki are united against Hashimi, and Maliki announced his agree­ment with the Kur­dis­tan Alliance in everything”

The deal as reported on Kuwaiti Al-Watan is the following:

Maliki agreed with the head of Kur­dis­tan Regional Gov­ern­ment Barham Salih, that a Kur­dish par­lia­men­tary del­e­ga­tion to visit Bagh­dad dur­ing the next few days, to resolve all the dif­fer­ences between the Kurds and the Iraqi gov­ern­ment in exchange for sup­port­ing Maliki against the “care­taker gov­ern­ment” draft (vot­ing code) in the parliament.

Which means more con­fronta­tion between Maliki’s Dawa Party and INA + Allawi’s coali­tion, so I don’t know if this agree­ment is good or bad news for Maliki. Just think that if Hashimi vetos the elec­tion law again, INA will not give Maliki his 165 votes needed to veto the sec­ond veto for free.