State of Law and INA: “we’ll agree on the next PM before first parliamentary session

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State of Law and INA: “we’ll agree on the next PM before first parliamentary session.

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State of Law and INA: “we’ll agree on the next PM before first parliamentary session.”

May 29, 2010 · Posted in NEWS

Saturday, May 29th 2010 2:32 PM

Baghdad, May 29, (AKnews) – “The names of the candidates for the prime minister post will be announced before the first parliamentary session to be held this week,” members of State of Law and the Iraqi National Alliance (INA) said on Saturday..

“The internal rules and mechanisms that the Iraqi National Alliance and State of law agreed upon are crucial to choose the candidates for the prime minister’s post,” a leading member in the State of Law, a Abdul Hadi al-Hussani said.

“We hope the coalitions to agree on this issue as soon as possible, and we are about to complete it during this week,” he added.

According to the agreement between the coalitions, each one of them has the right to present one candidate or two, or more for the post of prime minister and the new prime minister will be chosen according to mechanisms that the coalitions agreed upon after mutual consent or by majority vote or a certain percentage, and if the solution was not found, the coalitions would follow other procedures that they previously agreed upon.

“The candidate of the two coalitions for the prime minister’s post will be announced before the first parliamentary session,” Husseini said.

Another leading member in INA, Bahaa al-Araji from the Sadr movement said: “consensus and coalitions between the participants reached higher levels now.”

“Sadr movement is keen to announce the candidate for the prime minister’s post before the first session of parliament, especially since INA and State of Law want that,” he added.

He pointed out that “the candidate for the prime minister’s post will be a member of the Iraqi National Alliance (INA), and if they don’t agree on him, other mechanisms will be followed to nominate another candidate.”

The Iraqi parliamentary elections were held on the 7th of March, and the results of the elections were announced on the 26th: they showed the progress of Iraqiya List led by former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, by gaining 91 seats, followed by the State of Law coalition led by outgoing Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki with 89 seats, while the Iraqi National Alliance won 70 seats and Kurdistan Alliance List came in the fourth place by obtaining 43 seats.

The debate now is over: who is authorized to form the next government, while Al-Iraqiya bloc confirms its right, based on Article 76 of the Constitution, while the two Shiite alliances insist on this right based on the interpretation of the Federal Court,

According to the interpretation of the Federal Court of the term “the largest parliamentary bloc,” which will be assigned to form a government, as in Article 76 of the Iraqi Constitution, it is either the bloc that was formed after the elections by one electoral list and had participated in the elections in a certain name and number, and had earned the most number of seats, or the bloc that was made by allying two or more than two electoral lists, which participated in the elections with different names and numbers and then united in a single block with a single entity in the Parliament.

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