Count-fraud claims and threats multiply

In his new call to the IHEC to man­u­ally recount the votes, Maliki warned of vio­lence if the Com­mis­sion rejects his demand, but the real threat is the lan­guage he used in his state­ment. Look at this line:

I, directly respon­si­ble for the for­mu­la­tion and the imple­men­ta­tion of the pol­icy of this coun­try and in my capac­ity as Com­man­der in Chief of the armed forces, I call on the IHEC to respond promptly to this request.

Jalal Tal­a­bani joined the skep­tics of the exis­tence of votes-counts vio­la­tions for the ben­e­fit of cer­tain bloc, demand­ing the recount of the votes in cer­tain areas.

Talabani’s re-count demand came (as sources claim) after receiv­ing infor­ma­tion con­firms that there is a clear inter­fer­ence sup­ported by the U.S. with agree­ment of regional coun­tries to announce Al-Iraqiy as the win­ner. These infor­ma­tion alerted the the main Kur­dish par­ties and the Shi­ite par­ties that there can be a seri­ous polit­i­cal coup they could lose con­trol of the polit­i­cal ini­tia­tive in the future.

The same fraud claims also made by INA (threat­ened that the Supreme Shi­ite lead­ers “Hawza” will inter­vene), stress­ing that the U.S. is inter­ven­ing in the votes for the ben­e­fit of Al-Iraqiya. INA also claims that U.S. ICT com­pany Nashita, who pro­vided the soft­ware and the hard­ware to count the votes is already con­nected IHEC’s data­base though a com­mu­ni­ca­tion sys­tem called VAST to the company’s head­quar­ter in the U.S. to manip­u­late the votes results.

As for Iyad Allawi’s sud­den visit to Lebanon, he asked the Lebanese Prime Min­is­ter Sa’a Hariri to medi­ate between him and the Kur­dis­tan Region Pres­i­dent Masoud Barzani, after the cri­sis which was sparked by com­ments by sev­eral lead­ers of the Iraqi National List (which explains the phone call between Barzani and Hariri today).

One more twist of events, SoL and INA started to cir­cu­late “strange rumors” claim­ing that Allawi can not be the next Prime Min­is­ter because his mother is Lebanese which is a vio­la­tion to Arti­cle 65 which says:

A nom­i­nee to the Pres­i­dency must meet the fol­low­ing conditions:

A. Must be an Iraqi by birth, born to Iraqi parents.

The text men­tions the Pres­i­dency post (Ara­bic text says: the pres­i­dent of the State), but not the Prime Min­is­ter post.