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Open — closed lists and the election law

Strange, Sis­tani sup­ports the “open-list” sys­tem (Shi­ite par­ties claim), while in 2005 elec­tion he blessed the “closed-list” that brought the cur­rent UIA to the gov­ern­ment. Recently, he even rejects the mixed-list (again claims): Sis­tani and the supreme cler­ics dis­ap­proved the … Con­tinue read­ing

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Ammar Al-Hakim and the South-Federation

One day before Ammar Al-Hakim visit to Iran, the Sadrists MP Al-Araji renewed their warn­ing about ISCI “for­mer” fed­er­a­tion project say­ing that ISCI left this project “behind”. But Al-Araji didn’t for­get to add: We [Sadrists] in a coali­tion with ISCI, … Con­tinue read­ing

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Election conflict intensifies

- Under the title “Par­ties con­flict inten­si­fies”, Lebanese Al-Mustaqbal pub­lished a very inter­est­ing report about INA’s next plan to iso­late Maliki: The Iraqi pres­i­dency Coun­cil (Tal­a­bani, Adil Abdul Mahdi and Hashimi) to a new law before the Par­lia­ment that will … Con­tinue read­ing

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Tensions between rival Shiite parties

This is to describe the recent Shiite-shiite polit­i­cal mood in Iraq. Accord­ing to Al-Malafpress, INA has formed a com­mit­tee in order to dis­man­tle the exist­ing alliances in the provin­cial councils.The rea­son is very clear; to weaken Maliki-controlled Shi­ite provin­cial coun­cils. At … Con­tinue read­ing

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Election conflict puts Sistani in the middle

- 06-10-2009 — Recently formed “Turk­men National Bloc (con­tains many Turk­men known par­ties) joined INA — I think this more polit­i­cal moti­vated than reli­gious rea­sons — The Turk­men fear that Maliki will cut a deal with the Kurds on Kirkuk. … Con­tinue read­ing

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A preview of Maliki’s coalition — What happened before and after the announcement!

The first event was one day before the announce­ment of Maliki’s new coali­tion, Ammar AL-Hakim made a U-turn in one of the basics of ISCI’s ide­ol­ogy, that will pro­voke a debate not within the Shi­ite cir­cles only, but inside INA itself. Con­tinue read­ing

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The opposition’s strategy to crash Maliki’s government

Maliki’s chances for a sec­ond term are shrink­ing, and what left for the “State of Law” is the gam­ble on the party’s pre­vi­ous expe­ri­ence in the provin­cial elec­tions when the party man­aged to defeat the ISCI, the Sadrists and the … Con­tinue read­ing

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Election update — various other news

28-09-2009 — AL-Mashhadani (The National Inde­pen­dent Trend) offi­cially with­draw from Maliki’s (State of Law) coali­tion (to announced Thurs­day) — AKI, accord­ing ipa-Iraq; polit­i­cal blocs left Allawi’s “Iraqi List” joined Mashhadani’s Trend and one split orga­ni­za­tion from the “Sadr Trend” called … Con­tinue read­ing

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The Shiites scene — update

There is an update with new infor­ma­tion on “Iraqi pre-election polit­i­cal map – The Shi­ites scene” (see the top of the post)

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Iraqi pre-election political map – The Shiites scene

The coali­tion encour­aged the adopt of this idea on grounds that it will encour­age more polit­i­cal par­ties to join a coali­tion for the flex­i­bil­ity in decision-making. — I pointed out that “Asaib Al-Haq” will be Sadrists’ future prob­lem (see below). … Con­tinue read­ing

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