Feltman’s suggestion of sharing power rejected

The absence of an offi­cial insti­tu­tion to reg­is­ter the “newly” formed Shi­ite alliance between the “State of Law” and “Iraqi National Alliance”, forced Maliki to renew his nego­ti­a­tion with the Sadrists, in an effort to counter the Supreme Council’s move­ments, who is try­ing to hide behind the Sadrists in order to hijack the prime min­is­ter office for his can­di­date, Adel Abdul Mahdi.

Leaked infor­ma­tion con­firmed that Jef­frey Felt­man, in his visit to Bagh­dad tried to revive the U.S. agenda to bridge the gap between the Maliki and Iyad Allawi, on the basis of part­ner­ship. how­ever, informed sources con­firmed that the leader of Al-Iraqiya List Iyad Allawi has rejected this view, stress­ing on his com­mit­ment to form the government.

The Supreme Coun­cil and the Sadrists saw Feltman’s attempt as a step toward the mar­gin­al­iza­tion of their role in the for­ma­tion of the gov­ern­ment, and there­fore means that if it achieved, it will cause the dis­in­te­gra­tion of the (National Alliance), the new name for the allaince between the Maliki’s “State of Law” and INA.

Sources from within the Supreme Coun­cil con­firmed that Moq­tada Al-Sadr (who rep­re­sents Iran’s posi­tion) started to show some flex­i­bil­ity over Adel Abdul-Mahdi can­di­dacy, means that Iran is no longer inter­ested in block­ing any of the can­di­dates of the Shi­ite Alliance as long as he is able to achieve Prime Min­is­ter office. A posi­tion allowed the Sadrists to extract more con­ces­sions and guar­an­tees from Nuri Al-Maliki.