Sadrists officially rejected Maliki’s nomination

A move sought by some “Dawa Party” lead­ers as paving the way for cre­at­ing more pos­i­tive atmos­phere between the Sadrists and the “State of Law”, Maliki has met with a del­e­ga­tion from the Sadrist Move­ment includes a num­ber of promi­nent Sadrists lead­ers. Sadrist “Ahrar Bloc” leader Amir Al-Kenani offi­cially told Maliki the movement’s rejec­tion to his nom­i­na­tion for the prime Min­is­ter post.

The Sadrists posi­tion came as answer to the “State of Law” con­di­tion to merge both Shi­ite par­ties that their only can­di­date is Maliki.

Even Al-Hakim showed his irri­ta­tion with Maliki’s insis­tence on the Prime Min­is­ter post in today’s inter­view on Al-Sharq Al-Awsat saying:

The selec­tion of the can­di­dates will be based on the agreed mech­a­nism, if the out­come from “SoL” or not.

The inter­est­ing part, is that if the “State of Law” wants to look for an alter­na­tive can­di­date (since Dawa Party has no other can­di­date than Maliki), then the next in the row is the cur­rent Oil Min­is­ter “Shahrstani”, who rep­re­sents the Iranian-line in “SoL” coali­tion reject­ing any rap­proche­ment with Allawi.

One trust­wor­thy report on an Iraqi news­pa­per says that Maliki’s price to with­draw from the can­di­dacy is retir­ment salary $30 mil­lion and a mil­i­tary force for his pro­tec­tion (image above).

Al-Kenani’s reacted: Maliki is not in a posi­tion to impose his con­di­tions on us.

Telling Leila Fadel that he he would try to ally with the Kurds, Turk­men and Arabs in Kirkuk revealed yes­ter­day in a press con­fer­ence that Maliki appointed 400 Kurds offi­cers in the city (most of them don’t even speak Ara­bic) accus­ing Maliki of sell­ing Kirkuk to the Kurds