I can’t say it bet­ter than the Sadrists MP Nas­sar Rubaie, who explained the cur­rent sit­u­a­tion and future sim­i­lar sit­u­a­tions as:

The Iraqi con­sti­tu­tion, is unable to build a mod­ern state and to han­dle any polit­i­cal cri­sis such as this one of the elec­tion law. The prob­lem is that there there is one states­man who can make the deci­sions or agree one the decisions.

Why I said noth­ing changed in my pre­vi­ous post, is explained by Salim Al-Jabouri from “Al-Tawafiq” bloc:

The law is not the per­fect solu­tion but it is the only pos­si­ble solu­tion to avoid the sec­ond veto and restore the provinces seats changed before the last amendments.

Exactly what I said yes­ter­day, Elaph reported that the Amer­i­can saved Hashimi’s face, also reported that the Amer­i­can ambas­sador invited Iraqi politi­cians for a din­ner and at 8.00 o’clock he MP Salim Nas­sar that 11.00 the cri­sis will be solved.

Tak­ing the law to its pre­vi­ous form, is the only “vic­tory” achieved by Hashimi, while his real demand was to increas­ing the num­ber of seats allo­cated to Iraqis abroad, from 5% to 15% .. Reuters — “Iraq VP threat­ens to veto vote law over refugees” — Nov 15, 2009

Shi­ite and Kur­dish par­ties refused to give the dis­placed more than 5%, while they agreed to give them the right to count their votes in provinces of ori­gin, which is some­thing dif­fi­cult if not impos­si­ble to achieve, because of these reasons:

- IHEC doesn’t have the mech­a­nisms to clas­sify the dis­placed accord­ing to their provinces.

- Iraqi social ID sys­tem, and food ration cards (mostly, refugees leave this with rel­a­tives inside Iraq to increase their rations) if required from the refugees are not reli­able source to clas­sify the dis­placed accord­ing to their provinces.

Sun­nis, sec­u­lars and nation­al­ists, tried to reduce the num­ber of Shi­ites and Kurds seats in the par­lia­ment, by increas­ing their own seats to about 40% through the refugees votes.

Semi-failed plan, now the votes of the refugees will be ignored or will be used to forge the election.

Funny, the Sadrists say that Hashimi man­aged to gain few extra vote at the expense of his Sunni allies, and the Amer­i­can ambas­sador was the celebrity of the par­lia­ment yesterday.