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Kurdistan Blocs Coalition supports
Diyala's demand for autonomy
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December 16, 2011
DIYALA, Iraq,
— The Kurdistan Blocs Coalition pledged its support
for Diyala becoming a region on Thursday with the
caveat that it does not include the district of
Khanaqin which Kurds want to join Kurdistan.
Diyala Provincial Council KBC member Jalil Ibrahim
told AKnews: "All the members of the coalition
support the establishment of Diyala region on the
condition that non of the other districts like
Khanaqin join it."
The KBC called on the leaders of political blocs in
Baghdad to support Diyala's aspirations and end the
tensions that followed the province's announcement.
But the Ahrar Bloc which belongs to the hardline
Shiite Sadrist movement raged that turning Diyala
Province into an autonomous region is illegal.
The head of the Ahrar Bloc Bahaa al-Araji told
AKnews the bid is politically motivated and the
Federal Court rejected the demand since the Province
includes disputed areas.
Diyala Representative Salim al-Jabbouri in the Iraqi
Council of Representatives told AKnews earlier that
29 Provincial Council members, more than half the
Council,www.ekurd.net
signed the declaration of the Province's intention
to become an administratively independent region.
Article 119 of the Iraqi constitution allows a
province to become a region through a referendum
requested by one third of the provincial council
members or one tenth of the voters.
Over the last two months several provincial councils
have declared autonomy or threatened to do so. This
glut of schisms is a response to the arrests of more
than 615 alleged former members of the Baath Party,
especially among Sunni provinces.
The arrests were ordered by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki
after he received information from Libyan interim
leader Mahmoud Jibril. Libyan rebel forces obtained
documents indicating Muammar al-Qaddafi tried to
support an attempt of Baath members to overthrow the
Iraqi government.
By Mahmoud al-Jabbouri and Mouhammed Tayyeb
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