Al-Sadr is close to announcing a broad alliance, and Al-Maliki demands a position that Al-Abadi abol

[size=52]Al-Sadr is close to announcing a broad alliance, and Al-Maliki demands a position that Al-Abadi abolished[/size]

[size=45]Baghdad / Tamim Al-Hassan[/size]
[size=45]Nouri al-Maliki, the former prime minister, stands before Muqtada al-Sadr, the leader of the Sadrist movement, his expanded coalition government, or what the latter calls the "political majority."[/size]
[size=45]Al-Maliki, the leader of the State of Law coalition, requests 8 positions for his coalition - which came third in the election results - including a senior position for him, which al-Sadr rejects.[/size]
[size=45]The leader of the current, with the highest seats, was able to include 4 political forces in his bloc, while the status of the Shiite forces (the coordinating framework) remained unresolved.[/size]
[size=45]Al-Sadr reached, hours before the opening of the first session of Parliament, which is supposed to be held today, Sunday, to the threshold of achieving "half + one" of the total number of seats, which gives him the right to form a government.[/size]
[size=45]Five names of candidates for the position of prime minister are circulating, and it seems that the positions of the President of the Republic and Parliament are almost settled.[/size]
[size=45]Before the New Year, the President of the Republic, Barham Salih, called the new parliament to hold its first session on the ninth of this month, three days after the Federal Court announced the ratification of the election results.[/size]
[size=45]In the first sessions, it requires choosing the three presidencies and declaring the largest or “most numerous” bloc, according to the constitution’s expression in Article 76, which will present a candidate for prime minister.[/size]
[size=45]Unlike the last hours[/size]
[size=45]According to political sources, the reasons for the collapse of the agreement that took place recently, between al-Sadr and the Coordination Framework Group, is because of “Nuri al-Maliki.”[/size]
[size=45]And during the past two days, news leaked about the two groups merging to form the largest bloc, before Muqtada al-Sadr returned to talk again about the "political majority."[/size]
[size=45]The sources told Al-Mada that "after the two rounds of meetings between Al-Sadr and the coordination framework in Baghdad and Al-Hanana, they agreed to merge, but Al-Maliki requested 8 positions in the government."[/size]
[size=45]Al-Maliki, who won 33 seats, and according to the sources, asked for "six ministries for his coalition, two of which are sovereign, in addition to the position of Deputy Speaker of Parliament and the position of Vice President of the Republic occupied by al-Maliki himself."[/size]
[size=45]In 2015, as part of a series of reforms undertaken by former Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, he had abolished the post of Vice Presidents of the Republic, before the Federal Court returned after that to overturn the decision.[/size]
[size=45]The sources, who asked not to be identified, go on to say: "Al-Sadr informed the coordination framework that he rejects these demands, and that Al-Maliki is not in a position commensurate with his conditions."[/size]
[size=45]The sources added, "Al-Maliki's requests mean that he acquired all the ministries that belong to the Shiites' share, which are 12 ministries out of 23."[/size]
[size=45]On the other hand, there are still 17 seats for the Al-Fateh coalition, which includes 6 leaders (most notably Al-Amiri, Al-Khazali, Ahmed Al-Asadi, and Humam Hammoudi).[/size]
[size=45]There is no place for “militias”![/size]
[size=45]As a result of that dispute, the negotiation collapsed, and Al-Sadr tweeted yesterday, “There is no place for militias, and no for subordination.”[/size]
[size=45]Al-Sadr said: "Today there is no place for sectarianism and no place for ethnicity, but a national majority government in which Shiites defend the rights of minorities, Sunnis and Kurds."[/size]
[size=45]He added, "There is no place for militias. Everyone will support the army, the police, and the security forces."[/size]
[size=45]Prior to that, al-Sadr had published a post in which he announced the features of his alliance with Sunni and Kurdish forces and was part of the coordination framework.[/size]
[size=45]The leader of the Sadrist movement said in his tweet last Friday, that "the will of the free people is above all Western and Eastern external pressures," stressing that the people's will is a "national majority government."[/size]
[size=45]Al-Sadr pointed out that any external pressure will not "discourage" him from the majority government, adding that any threats "will increase us (determination), (progress) and (determination) towards an Iraqi (democracy)."[/size]
[size=45]It was understood from al-Sadr’s tweet that my coalition led by Muhammad al-Halbousi, the former parliament speaker, and Azm led by Khamis al-Khanjar joined him.[/size]
[size=45]Al-Halbousi owns 42 seats after 5 independent winners in the elections joined his alliance, while only 12 winners remained from the Khanjar alliance after his team split, which reached 32 seats due to the latter’s support to restore confidence to Al-Halbousi in the parliament’s presidency.[/size]
[size=45]The tweet also referred to the merger of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, which has 31 seats, in addition to the Tasmeem Alliance of 5 seats, which (the latter) does not seem internally integrated.[/size]
[size=45]Amer al-Fayez, a winning deputy from Basra and head of the design alliance, stated that he “did not sign with al-Sadr” against other Shiite forces.[/size]
[size=45]Al-Fayez called on the Shiite movement to enter into a new project called "Reform Homeland Gathering," and said that the Sadrists were the first to sign it.[/size]
[size=45]If Tasmim merges with al-Sadr, the coalition will have 164 seats, which is one seat less than “half + one” of the 329 parliament’s total.[/size]
[size=45]"Formatting" options[/size]
[size=45]The sources expect that the integration of the coordination framework is "only a matter of time", especially with the presence of Iranian pressures pushing this direction.[/size]
[size=45]And in front of the framework is a solution of 3 solutions, according to what the sources say: “either isolating al-Maliki or submitting to al-Sadr’s conditions and reducing the share of the leader of the State of Law coalition, or the unlikely solution is to go with the rest of the parties that did not enter with al-Sadr.”[/size]
[size=45]The dissidents from "Azm" who represent 20 seats are still insisting on the nomination of Mahmoud al-Mashhadani, who by chance will be the head of the age who will open Sunday's session, in addition to the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, which has 17 seats.[/size]
[size=45]Also, about 30 individual candidates (out of 42 merged with 12 well-known political forces) did not resolve their issue, including 14 who did not merge with any known or new bloc formed after the results were announced.[/size]
[size=45]And the coordinating framework announced, yesterday, that it wanted to form a government "in which all parties participate" and far from "exclusion and marginalization."[/size]
[size=45]This came after a meeting of the "Coordination Committee" with the Kurdistan Democratic Party at Al-Maliki's house in Baghdad.[/size]
[size=45]The framework had called last Friday, the Sadrist movement to form the largest bloc in number to maintain the constitutional maturity.[/size]
[size=45]The names of the three presidencies[/size]
[size=45]According to well-informed political sources, "Al-Sadr will grant the coordination framework, if it merges with the Sadrist bloc, the right of veto over the nominees of prime ministers, but he stipulated not to interfere in the names of the ministers, and the prime minister is responsible for choosing them."[/size]
[size=45]According to the leaks, the names of 5 candidates to head the government are circulating, and they are the current Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi, the Iraqi ambassador in London and Sadr's cousin, Jaafar Al-Sadr, and Adel Mahouder, who is a Sadrist and the former Minister of Municipalities.[/size]
[size=45]As for the other two names that were not disclosed, the sources speculate that they are from the very close circle of the leader of the Sadrist movement, or what is known as the “Hanana Team,” which is Sadr’s residence in Najaf.[/size]
[size=45]As for the rest of the names of the presidencies, the leaks talk about the Kurdish forces submitting Hoshyar Zebari to the presidency, a leader in the Democratic Party and the former Minister of Finance and Foreign Affairs.[/size]
[size=45]On the other hand, the position of Parliament Speaker appears to be almost agreed upon to renew the mandate of Al-Halbousi, but on the other hand, Al-Mashhadani is competing with him, who is supported by the dissidents from Al-Khanjar, after Khaled Al-Obeidi, the leader of the dissident from the coalition, relinquished the position.[/size]
[size=45]Opening session[/size]
[size=45]According to the constitution, in the first session, the deputies must elect a speaker and two deputies by an absolute majority, then the parliament will elect a new speaker by a two-thirds majority of the deputies within 30 days of the first session.[/size]
[size=45]The latter assigns the candidate of the largest bloc in Parliament to form a government, and the Prime Minister-designate also has 30 days to form a government and present it to Parliament for approval.[/size]
[size=45]But Ali Shaddad, a new deputy in parliament for Basra, does not expect much to happen in the session that will be held on Sunday.[/size]
[size=45]Shaddad said, in connection with (Al-Mada) about the session: "It will be an opening only, in which it will be announced that the president of the age will take the presidential oath and that the winning candidates will take the constitutional oath, then it will turn into an open session."[/size]
[size=45]The Federal Court had decided in 2010 to cancel the “open session”, but the political forces repeated that several times after the decision, but under other names, such as turning it into a “deliberation session”, which is what the assumed age president Mahmoud al-Mashhadani spoke a few days ago.[/size]
[size=45]Representative Shaddad, who is from the State Forces Alliance, added: "I do not expect that the matter of choosing the speaker of parliament will be decided in the first session, but this may happen in a close session, which may be in the same week."[/size]
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