At least one source has said that the Supreme Fed­eral Court gave its answer to the IHEC about the legal­ity of “J and A”, and the answer (as you see in the image above) is; “J and A is an ille­gal insti­tu­tion”. The above is not con­firmed and it could be part of Allawi’s “psycho-war” against the sec­tar­ian par­ties, but there are two con­firmed devel­op­ments today:

In a dras­tic change of posi­tion, the Kur­dis­tan Regional Gov­ern­ment released a state­ment says that the deci­sion made by Appeals Court is a vio­la­tion to the con­sti­tu­tion and against the “J and A“‘s rules.

The sig­nif­i­cance about the above state­ment is that it chal­lenges Jalal Talabani’s posi­tion, which is not only sup­port­ive to the Appeals Court but Tal­a­bani him­self was the “brain” behind it.

It is very clear that Barzani wants to mar­gin­al­ize Talbani’s influ­ence in the region, espe­cially that from the 10 Kurds included by the “J and A“‘s deci­sion there are at least 7 Talabani’s PUK Party members:

- Mosul can­di­dates (Hus­sein Ali Ahmed Hus­sein, Abdul Rah­man Mulla Mohammed Taher Khalid, Hus­sein Ali Mohammed Ahmed).

- Bagh­dad can­di­date (Samir Jihad Ahmad Karim, Abdul-Ghafour Karim Ali Ghafoor and Abdul-Kader Abdul Kader Mohammed Abdullah).

- Wasit Province can­di­date (Abbas Ibrahim Taha Yassin).

The Kur­dis­tan Regional Gov­ern­ment released a call for all the Kur­dish Alliance MPs to par­tic­i­pate in the Par­lia­ment ses­sion com­ing Sun­day, and this lead us to the sec­ond development.

Con­firmed today by Al-Sumaria, the rumor I reported yes­ter­day about Maliki’s plan to with­draw the con­fi­dence from the Appeals Court is one of the two sub­jects will be dis­cussed in Sunday’s Par­lia­ment ses­sion, the other sub­ject is the U.S. inter­fer­ence in Iraq’s affairs.

Al-Dawa leader Ali Al-Adeeb threat­ened today say­ing that the Par­lia­ment approved the Appeals Court and the Par­lia­ment can also with­draw this approval.

Allawi’s Al-Iraqiya’s List’ politi­cians are com­mu­ni­cat­ing with the other Par­lia­ment blocs try­ing to pre­vent the Sunday’s par­lia­men­tary ses­sion, argu­ing that this will cre­ate a new crisis.