The new rumor of a Shiite ruling coalition

It started with an arti­cle pub­lished on the “Green Zone” news­pa­per Al-Sabah, says the following:

Polit­i­cal sources close to the ongo­ing nego­ti­a­tions between INA and the “State of Law” revealed that the next 48 hours will wit­ness the offi­cial announce­ment of the new rul­ing coalitions.

Al-Quds Al-Arabi revealed the following:

A source close to INA said that the announce­ment of for­ma­tion of a new coali­tion between INA and SoL depends on the results of Ammar Al-Hakim’s visit to Saudi Arabia.

Sistani’s spokesman and his rep­re­sen­ta­tive in Beirut Hamid Al-Khafa hur­ried to announce that the Supreme cleric Sis­tani has noth­ing to do with the for­ma­tion of the new rul­ing coali­tion between INA and SoL.

What exactly is going on?

As I said before, it seems that Ja’afari and Cha­l­abi have their own agenda, try­ing to force the for­ma­tion of such coali­tion on INA (since SoL is happy to hear this news), even with­out the approval of the Sadrists. Here is what UAE news­pa­per Al-Ithad published:

Sources close to the meet­ing (between INA and SoL) said that the Alliance (between the two) doesn’t reached the level of merg­ing both coali­tions in one coali­tion and not even the announce­ment of the for­ma­tion of one coalition.

The arti­cle goes on to reveal Ja’afari’s role:

Dur­ing the past few days, Ibrahim Jaa­fari, leader of Islah Move­ment, pushed to form an alliance between the Supreme Coun­cil, Dawa Party, the Islamic Party and the Kur­dis­tan Alliance.

The sources said that Jaafari’s efforts has not been a suc­cess or even accepted because it has encoun­tered oppo­si­tion from many sides who does not want to exclude Al-Iraqiya List led by Iyad Allawi, from any future coali­tion, as well as that of the Islamic party is no longer rep­re­sents the Sun­nis in Iraq.

Add to above that the old dis­pute between the Sadrists and Dawa Party on Maliki’s nom­i­na­tion still exists. Here are the two links pub­lished today on Al-Sumeria: “State of Law still nom­i­nates Maliki as PM” and “Sadrists Al-Araji: Maliki’s nom­i­na­tion by SoL is the obsta­cle against the for­ma­tion of new coali­tion between SoL and INA”

In real­ity, it was Muq­tada Al-Sadr is the one who forced both coali­tions to can­cel the announce­ment of form­ing an Alliance (see image below)