We stay with the elec­tion, but away from the elec­tion law cri­sis (as they call it), there one impor­tant devel­op­ment day:

As expected, the polit­i­cal Bloc “Iraq Unity” chose Bolani as the Chair­man of the Bloc, for­mer Par­lia­ment speaker Mah­moud al-Mashhadani as the Gen­eral Sec­re­tary , Abdul-Ghafoor Samar­rai, Ahmad Abu Risha, Vice-Presidents.

Today’s ses­sion is post­poned for two rea­sons: 1) Only 90 MPs attended today’s ses­sion. 2) There is noth­ing to talk about, as Baha’a Al-Araji said that elec­tion law is still in the Pres­i­den­tial Coun­cil. so, why this emer­gency meeting?

The infor­ma­tion after the ses­sion are still con­fus­ing. There is one report says that Hashimi “semi-approved” today’s pro­posal, and there is a sec­ond report says that Hashimi is not sat­is­fied with today’s ses­sion and he insists on veto­ing the new law tomor­row, one hour before the end of the day.

I want to explain the alliances, because there is no one rec­og­niz­able map which we can use to deci­pher the code of who is join­ing who:

(= join, x vs)

Kurds = Maliki x Hashimi

After Hashimi’s meet­ing Tal­a­bani last Thurs­day, there are some changes in Talabani’s posi­tion, admit­ting that Hashimi’s veto is constitutional.

Kurds = Sadrists x Maliki

Sadrists rejected Maliki’s can­di­date “Walid Al-Hilli” to head the new De-Baathificaton com­mit­tee “Account­abil­ity and jus­tice”. Kurds changed their posi­tion to sup­port the Sadrists’ can­di­date “Hamid AL-Saidi” after sup­port­ing Maliki’s can­di­date few days ago.

INA x Maliki

Say­ing we will not allow the com­ing Prime Min­is­ter to dom­i­nate the power.

INA = Maliki x Hashimi

And that is the elec­tion law crisis.