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Kurdistan's dominant parties disagree over
who should form new Iraqi govt: Gorran
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August
27, 2010
ERBIL-Hewlêr,
Kurdistan region 'Iraq', — Even as the Iraqi Arab
parties are in a bitter dispute over who should form
the new government, an elected parliament member for
the major Kurdish opposition party, Gorran- here in
the federal region of Iraqi Kurdistan- says the
Kurdistani bloc is also divided over whether to ally
with Iyad Allawi or Nuri Maliki, two top
vote-getters, in the formation of a new government.
Muhammad Kiyani, an MP for Gorran, says that each of
the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, headed by Jalal
Talabani, and the Kurdistan Democratic Party, headed
by Massoud Barzani, has their own preference, a
claim that could complicate the already deadlocked
government formation further.
“The PUK wants to ally with Maliki, but KDP with
Allawi,” said Kiyani, in an interview with Rudaw,
voicing concern against the two dominant parties for
holding meetings excluding members of other parties
like Gorran.
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Iraqi president and PUK leader Jalal Talabani (L)
and Massoud Barzani, the president of Kurdistan
region and the head of KDP. |
But Muhsin Sadoon, a
member of the parliament for the Kurdistan
Democratic Party KDP, ruled out Kiyani’s words,
adding that whoever is willing to adhere to more of
the 19 Kurdish conditions, he will be given the
upper hand.
“Nothing like that exists. All the parties making up
the Kurdistani coalition want to forge alliance with
whoever accepts the Kurdish demands,” said Sadoon.
Allawi is the leader of the Iraqiya Coalition, which
consists mostly of Sunni candidates. Nuri Maliki,
the caretaker prime minister, leads the coalition of
the State of Law.
The Kurds have often dealt with Allawi’s coalition
with caution because of its Sunni makeup. Most of
the Sunnis are former members of the Ba’ath regime
of Saddam Hussein.
But Allawi, himself, is an old friend of the Kurds
dating back to the era of Hussein when Allawi was an
Iraqi opposition leader abroad.
However, Kurdish fear of Maliki is pretty much new.
It was caused by Maliki’s refusal to keep a number
of promises he made to the Kurds five years ago when
the Kurds decisively supported him to become prime
minister.
One of the pledges was to support the implementation
of Article 140 of the Iraqi Constitution that
determines the fates of a number of disputed
oil-rich regions between Baghdad and Erbil,www.ekurd.netthe
capital of Kurdistan.
However, in a visit to Erbil earlier this month,
Maliki demonstrated his support for Article 140
again.
“The state of law needs to step up and agree with
the [Iraqi] National Alliance to overcome their
problems,” said Dr. Rozh Shawes, a KDP elected MP,
and deputy prime minister.
“They should elect someone first for the PM office
and then consider the Kurdish constitutional
demands.”
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