Al-Iraqiya’s statement as a “prize” to benefit Abdul-Mahdi

Reject­ing the  par­tic­i­pa­tion, if Maliki formed the new gov­ern­ment,  we can sum­ma­rize the state­ment released by Al-Iraqiya List in three impor­tant points:

- Non-recognition of the so-called National Alliance (State of Law and Iraqi National Alliance).

- Al-Iraqiya con­sid­ers that the cur­rent form of the state admin­is­tra­tion headed by Al-Maliki is not fit for the sec­ond term. There­for, Al-Iraqiya will not be able to con­tribute or par­tic­i­pate in any future gov­ern­ment headed by Al-Maliki.

- The con­tin­u­a­tion of the nego­ti­a­tions with other coalitions.

Notice that the sec­ond point is the most impor­tant one, because: It’s the first time, Al-Iraqiya explic­itly and offi­cially announces its with­drawal from the gov­ern­ment in case the return of Al-Maliki. In the past, the rejec­tion of Al-Maliki issued by lead­ers and indi­vid­u­als in Al-Iraqiya List, most of these rejec­tions are per­sonal state­ments, but now, the sit­u­a­tion is for­mal­ized and rep­re­sents the 91 mem­bers of the List.

Salih Al-Mutlaq, one of Al-Iraqiya lead­ers also said yes­ter­day in a TV inter­view, that the List will accept the “Min­i­mum of change” in his answer on a ques­tion that if Al-Iraqiya will sup­port Adil Abdul-Mahdi as a candidate.

P.S.

Among the secret agree­ment between Al-Iraqiya-Abdul-Mahdi (INA)-Sadrists:

Syria

As I men­tioned before in an ear­lier post that Syria’s polit­i­cal maneu­ver of sup­port­ing Maliki’s can­di­dacy is to sat­isfy Wash­ing­ton only. The results of this maneu­ver started to emerge with the arrival of U.S. envoy to the Mid­dle East to Dam­as­cus on the day fol­low­ing the visit of the “State of Law” in Dam­as­cus, as well as in the meet­ing between U.S. Sec­re­tary Hillary Clin­ton and Syria’s FM Walid Al-Moallem in New York on the side­lines of the United Nations meeting.

From the begin­ning of the Iraqi polit­i­cal gov­ern­ment cri­sis, it is known that Dam­as­cus wants to see Allawi to head the gov­ern­ment (with minor reser­va­tions raised by its spe­cial rela­tion­ship with Saudi Ara­bia), but Dam­as­cus also wants to see ‘Adel Abdul-Mahdi’ if not the Prime Min­is­ter then in an impor­tant gov­ern­ment post, for these rea­sons: — Backed by France. — Close to Iran (with minor reser­va­tions raised by his rela­tion with Egypt).

Putting the above two points as ‘con­di­tions’ for any future alliance, it seems that Al-Iraqiya has agreed in advance with the INA’s can­di­date ‘Adel Abdul-Mahdi’ on these two con­di­tions, and it seems that the Mahdi would agree on the terms that meet with Iraqi Kur­dish Alliance conditions.

tem­po­rary] con­di­tions to sur­round Al-Maliki.