Maliki says he will form government if ongoing talks fail

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Maliki says he will form government if ongoing talks fail

by Rocky Thu 28 Aug 2014, 10:11 am

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Maliki says he will form government if ongoing talks fail

08/28/20140

Iraq’s outgoing Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said on Wednesday he was prepared to form a new government from among Iraq’s Shiite parties if ongoing talks on the shape of the new government fail, al-Sharq al-Awsat reported. Speaking in his weekly national address, Maliki claimed that the National Alliance—which includes his State of Law coalition, parties loyal to firebrand cleric Moqtada Al-Sadr, and the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI)—had a “Plan B” in place if Prime Minister-designate Haider al-Abadi was unable to make progress in talks on forming a government with Sunni and Kurdish factions. Although Maliki’s coalition won the largest number of seats in April’s parliamentary election, he fell short of an overall majority in Iraq’s parliament, and was unsuccessful in his attempts to put together an alliance capable of giving him a third term as premier.

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