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Barazani's party responds to Abbadi: The process does not benefit politics

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Barazani's party responds to Abbadi: The process does not benefit politics

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The Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), headed by Massoud Barzani, responded to the recent statements of Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on Kirkuk province, saying that his statement does not serve the political process, while the party expressed its adherence to the presidency. 
A spokesman for the party, Mahmoud Mohammed, said in a press conference held today in Erbil after a meeting of the leadership of the party held under the chairmanship of Massoud Barzani, "The meeting was discussed the formation of the next Iraqi government, and the selection of the three presidencies," stressing that "the two main parties in the Kurdistan region reached a conviction to go To Baghdad, and asked the four opposition parties to participate in the joint delegation of the two parties, but they were not ready to respond to us.
He pointed out that "the two parties formed a committee to undertake research alliances with the Iraqi blocs winning in the elections, and what are the visions of each block, and how will deal with the demands of the Kurdistan region," adding that "any bloc that respects the consensus and partnership and balance and is committed to the rights of the people and the Kurdistan region will be allied With them to form the Iraqi government. " 
"The party is disturbed by the statement of Prime Minister Haider Abadi on the disputed Kirkuk between Erbil and Baghdad," he said, describing the statement that "does not serve the nucleus of the largest bloc, which is shared by the victory alliance and the entire political process in Iraq." 
And Mohammed, that "so far did not offer any project to any party and both sides competing to form the federal government are trying to be the two Kurdish parties within their alliance," and on the delegation that will visit Baghdad, said that "the delegation consists of 6-7 members and will visit Baghdad era Saturday".
He pointed out that "the condition of forming the government of the three principles has been a mechanism for this matter," stressing that "must end the situation in Kirkuk province occupied and must normalize the situation in them and be determined how to manage the file security by the provincial council." 
"The demands of the Kurds in addition to the three principles include the application of Article 140 of the Constitution, and the determination of the share of the Kurdistan region of the budget and the budget of the Peshmerga." He stressed the need to normalize the situation in the areas covered by Article 140 of the Constitution. 
He added that "the demands do not contain anything unconstitutional and all within the framework of the Constitution of the rights of the people of Kurdistan," stressing that "Iraq must be managed by the three components of the Kurds and Shiites and Sunnis, and can not manage the country individually and those components must have their real representatives Government and participation in decision-making. "
And on the post of President of the Republic, a spokesman for the Kurdistan Democratic Party, Mahmoud Mohammed, "we insist that this position of our share." 
The media were quoted, earlier, Prime Minister Haider Abadi, stressing the lack of "bargains" with the Kurds on Kirkuk in return for joining the four-party alliance to form the largest bloc.

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http://www.skypressiq.net/2018/8/30/حزب-بارازني-يرد-على-العبادي-لا-ينفع-للعملية-السياسة

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while we wait, Intermission video

 

 

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11 hours ago, 3n1 said:

 

yup i had about 15 of those idioms with no definite meaning typed up lol,

  just fell back on their newest vague around the corner  jibber jabber after 3 plus months past the elections the goi destination needs to be in plain sight not around the corner i believe they're "getting there "  though  ..cheers we wait

 

Ever so slowly-getting there 

[Butifldrm]

Al-Amri's policy for MacGurke: Any government formed by the United States will fall for two months

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Shafaq News / The head of the Fatah alliance, Hadi al-Amiri, threatened to topple any Iraqi government formed by the intervention of the American side.

This came during a meeting with American Secretary of State Brett McFurk. 
A statement from Amiri's office said the latter had told the US official he had rejected any US involvement in forming the government. 
"If you insist on your intervention, we will consider any government to be a client before you and we will drop it within two months," the statement quoted Amiri as saying.

In the past few days, the American mediator, Brett McGurk, who has been in Iraq since the middle of this month, the commander of the Quds Force, Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, and his three aides, Erj Musjdi, Karim Rezai and Mahmoud Akbarzadeh, Shiites. 
While Tehran supports both Nuri al-Maliki (the coalition of state law) and the leader of Badr Hadi al-Amiri (also leads the Fatah coalition), Washington is supporting, unauthorizedly, the second Shiite camp and its most prominent symbols, Haider Abadi, Ammar al-Hakim, Muqtada al-Sadr and Iyad Allawi.
So far, the first camp was able to collect less than 100 seats, and includes a coalition of the rule of law led by Nuri al-Maliki (26 seats), and led by Hadi al-Amiri (48 seats), and the will of Hanan al-Fatlawi (3 seats), and competencies led by Haitham Jubouri (two seats) , As well as small blocks that have won a seat or two seats in southern Iraq, as well as others said leaders in this camp that "took off their sale to slaves and wise and pledged to be with us." 
(21 seats), the wisdom led by Ammar al-Hakim (19 seats), and the victory led by Haider Abadi (42 seats), to the Alongside lists of Turkoman and Christian minorities, officials said, "They made oral promises last Sunday to join the coalition, being more Iraqi than the first."
The Kurdish blocs, most notably the Democratic Party and the Kurdistan Alliance (43 seats), turned to the Qubban egg. The acceptance of these blocs in alliance with one of the two Shiite camps would defeat the competition in favor of one party over the other. The United States, through its envoy, who allocated more than one aircraft between Baghdad and Erbil to the movement of leaders and leaders of Sunni and Kurdish Iraqi.

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http://www.shafaaq.com/ar/Ar_NewsReader/0dd4eecb-6661-4d2e-ba4c-e0562d92a680

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After an argument with MacGorek, Pompeo calls Barzani on the formation of the Iraqi Government

 

10:49 – 29/08/2018

 

 

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Baghdad Mawazine News 

President of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, Massoud Barzani, on Wednesday, by telephone with US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, the Iraqi political situation and efforts to form the next Iraqi government. 
The official website of the Kurdistan Democratic Party on August 29, 2018 that Barzani received a telephone call from Pompeo, where the two sides discussed the political developments and necessary agreements between the parties to form the next Iraqi government. 
He pointed out that “the contact focused on how to form a new Iraqi government as soon as possible, and emphasize the relations between the parties.” 
Barzani had rejected earlier on Wednesday, a request from the envoy of US President, Brett McGork, to join the Kurds towards a Shiite camp ends with the formation of the next Iraqi government, according to a story transmitted by the information arm of Barzani party.
According to media reports of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, “US envoy Brett McGurk has asked Barzani in a meeting gathered Monday in Erbil, the Kurds to join the alliance of the nucleus consisting of Sadr, Hakim, Abadi, Allawi, and not to go towards the Fatah alliance led by Amiri, , Maliki. ” 
“Barzani seemed annoyed by the words of Trump’s envoy,” he said. “Do not talk to me in this way,” while political sources said the matter had reached an explosive level between the two. 
She added that “Barzani also told Trump ‘s envoy, said that” the Kurds, especially the Kurdistan Democratic Party has no red lines on a person or party, and they Sithalfon with those who meet their demands and guarantees the rights of the people of Kurdistan. ” 
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Iraq’s Sadr Hints at ‘Million Man Day of Rage’

 

 

Cleric Moqtada Sadr. Reuters file photo

Baghdad 

 

Iraq’s political crisis is set to grow after the blocs that have won most seats in the parliament failed to create the largest legislative bloc capable of forming a new government.

The inaugural session of the 329-seat chamber would be chaired by its oldest member, President Fuad Massum said this week in a decree calling for the sitting to take place on September 3. 

As the parliament plans to meet, cleric Moqtada Sadr called on Wednesday for a “peaceful day of rage” to rebuild a “new Iraq.”

Dozens of Iraqis protested near the entrance to the green zone in Baghdad over what they say are US plans to keep Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi in his post for a second term.

They said Brett McGurk, the US special envoy for the coalition against ISIS, has been ‘interfering” in the negotiations aimed at forming the biggest parliamentary bloc.

“No to America,” the protesters chanted as they pledged not to remain silent to the US embassy’s “interference” in the Iraqi government formation process.

Addressing his followers in a statement, Sadr urged them to hold a million man march against the corrupt.

“Say no to sectarianism, no to corruption, no to division of shares, no to terrorism and no to occupation,” he said.

“Iraq needs a peaceful day of rage to set the stage for building a new Iraq away from corruption and oppression,” Sadr added.

His foes considered his statement a call for street protests if the government was not formed anytime soon.

A political source told Asharq Al-Awsat that the slogans used in Sadr’s statement mainly with regard to ‘occupation,’ is a hint to the US, which has been seeking to keep Abadi in power.

Political analysts believe that tension ahead of the parliamentary session, along with US and Iranian pressure on the formation of the largest legislative bloc, are a reflection that Iraq’s political crisis has not abated and is set to become worse.

 

https://m.aawsat.com/english/home/article/1378061/iraq’s-sadr-hints-‘million-man-day-rage’*y

    

 

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I believe WE (the US) put Maliki in power......didn't workout to well for Iraq! 

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I believe Abadi can win it again on his own anyway. Abadi was such a far cry from the felon before him, he looked like a saint!!

[3n1]

hmmm alrighty then a peaceful day of rage ... what next a peaceful day of purge .

[Pitcher]

Can you image President Trump calling for a million person march for a day of rage against the Democrats.  Now that would really be something. 

[ChuckFinley]

I guess we are just going to have to wait and see what happens next week. 

[3n1]

im thinking amiri has got a form of psychosis going on ...

 

Psychosis is an abnormal condition of the mind that results in difficulties determining what is real and what is not. Symptoms may include false beliefs (delusions) and seeing or hearing things that others do not see or hear (hallucinations).

[ChuckFinley]

Man, the drama goes on. 

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Iraq's Abadi exempts Faleh al-Fayadh from all government posts

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PM Haidar Abadi issued a decree on Thursday to exempt Faleh al-Fayadh, Head and Advisor of the National Security Council, from all his government posts.

According to a statement from Abadi's media office, Faleh al-Fayadh has been involved in political and partisan activities which contradicts the sensitivity of his security missions. 

The statement added that the decision was based on the Iraqi constitution that keeps the neutrality of the security and intelligence services.

 

 

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20180830-iaea-report-iran-is-complying-with-nuclear-deal-restrictions/

[Pitcher]

Abadi taking charge.  I like it.

 

Now push the button, or clap your hands, yell out Shazam, flip the switch, ring the bell, call CBI and say, It’s go time. The environment is suitable and it’s the right day!!!! No more, soon, any day now or right around the corner.

 

Just do it.  

[ChuckFinley]

2 minutes ago, Pitcher said:

Abadi taking charge.  I like it.

 

Now push the button, or clap your hands, yell out Shazam, flip the switch, ring the bell, call CBI and say, It’s go time. The environment is suitable and it’s the right day!!!! No more, soon, any day now or right around the corner.

 

Just do it.  

[Pitcher]

Iran seeks to get Fatih, State of Law coalitions included in largest bloc

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The nucleus of the largest bloc, which includes coalitions of Sairun, Victory, Wisdom and Al Wataniya has launched talks with the axis of Al Fatih and State of Law coalitions regarding the formation of the coming government, informed sources said Thursday. 

The sources said, in a press statement, that the talks started yesterday between the negotiating committees of the nucleus of the largest bloc and the committees of Al Fatih and the State of Law.

The source, who declined to be named, confirmed the talks were positive, and there were many participants of the two sides.

 

He indicated that the coming two days will determine the final decision whether the two coalitions will be included within the nucleus of the largest bloc.

 

 

https://www.thebaghdadpost.com/en/Story/31164/Iran-seeks-to-get-Fatih-State-of-Law-coalitions-included-in-largest-bloc

 

[Pitcher]

Yes Chuck the drama goes on. It’s a real political battle in Iraq.  When you stop and think about it, Iraq is really new to the political world.  When you see everyone in government becoming a billionaire it’s understandable why all the different parties want in.  Money, greed and power, human character on full display. 

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Prominent Shiite cleric welcomes Iran intervention in Iraqi affairs

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Recently, Humam Hamoudi, Leader of the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council, has slammed what he named "foreign interventions" in Iraq's internal affairs as violations of the Arab country's national sovereignty. But the statements were heavily derided on social media as they ignored the Iranian flagrant interference in Iraq. 

 

The statements came during Hamoudi's speech at a ceremony held by the council on the occasion of Eid al-Ghadir. The speech tackled the current situation in Iraq and the ongoing negotiations to form the largest bloc.

 

He pointed to the importance of speeding up efforts by all political blocs to agree on a national project whose main objective is to serve the citizens and find practical and realistic solutions to the country's problems. 

 

Iraq's political circles have seen rifts over the formation of the next government. These disagreements coincided two important visits byUS special envoy to Iraq, Brett H. McGurk, and commander of the Quds Force, Qassem Soleimani. The visits discussed means to form the new government.

Sairun Coalition which is supported by leader of the Sadrist movement Moqtada al-Sadr, the Victory coalition led by PM Haider Abadi, and Wisdom Coalition  led by Ammar al-Hakim, and the National Coalition  led by VP Iyad Allawi have formed what they called a nucleus for the largest bloc in the Iraqi parliament.


Sadr and Abadi represent the first axis of theShiite blocs winning in the elections that took place last May while the second axis consists of the Fatih Coalition that includes Iran-allied IMIS Militias,  Secretary General of the Badr Organization Hadi Al-Amiri, and the State of Law Coalition led by Nuri al-Maliki.

The largest bloc needs 165 seats out of a total of 329 seats in the new parliament.

Hamoudi has shown his strong rejection of US sanctions against Iran. "The unjust and illegitimate" decisions have been issued by a state and not issued by an official UN body," he said, calling upon the government to ask the US administration not to abide by those sanctions.

 

Hre also criticized the decisions by US President Donald Trump, claiming they have created deep problems even with his allies.

 

He further claimed that imposing a blockade onIran is part of major schemes to create chaos in the region.

In a previous Friday sermon, Hammoudi slammed the Iraqi people after the defeat of Islamists in the May elections. 

 

https://www.thebaghdadpost.com/en/Story/31163/Prominent-Shiite-cleric-welcomes-Iran-intervention-in-Iraqi-affairs

 

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2018/08/30 19:56

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• Suron: Any statement not issued by the coalition spokesman is not taken as a position

 

 

BAGHDAD / Al-Masala: The coalition of Ssron, Thursday, August 30, 2018, that any statement not issued by the spokesman of the coalition Qahtan al-Jubouri "is not taken as an official position on the coalition."

The Alliance said in a statement, "Masala", "It has been recently in the issuance of statements on behalf of a coalition of others who are not authorized to declare his name, so the secretariat of the alliance confirms that in order to clear the objectives of the alliance and not to confuse personal views and what is adopted officially, Coalition spokesman Qahtan al-Jubouri is not taken as an official position on the alliance. "

"On this occasion we call on all media to adopt statements and statements issued by the official spokesman only."

 

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http://almasalah.com/ar/news/148674/سائرون--أي-تصريح-لا-يصدر-عن-الناطق-باسم-التحالف-لا-يؤخذ-بوصفه-موقفا

 

 

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A scenario looms to postpone the first scheduled session of the new parliament

 

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Although the president of the republic, Fuad Masoum, will be appointed next Monday as the first session of the parliament, there is a scenario by political parties to postpone it, although there is no legal text that prevents the use of such a step repeatedly, if the postponement continues for months.

 According to media leaks, the political forces may resort to preventing the quorum of the expected session from being completed if it is unable to bring the largest parliamentary bloc to the spotlight before that date.

There is a scenario that has been discussed in the last few hours, along with another scenario of the swearing in of whoever attended, without the election of the Speaker and his deputies.

In the first case, the postponement of the meeting beyond September 15, with the aim of giving the components, is time to resolve their "larger bloc" orientation. A source familiar with the negotiating process ruled out last week the birth of this bloc before the middle of next month .

 In the second case, the meeting will be adjourned to a week later, in the hope that the contract relating to the posts of the speaker of parliament (if the competition between the Sunni candidates is not resolved before the beginning of next week) and the presidency of the government has been dissolved.

The Iraqi political scene is witnessing intensive talks between two rival camps. The first is the alliance of the other led by Moqtada al-Sadr and the victory headed by al-Abbadi and the wisdom headed by al-Hakim and the national led by Allawi, while the second camp is formed of the Fatah alliance headed by Amiri and the rule of law led by al-Maliki and al-Asaib led by al-Khazali.

While awaiting lists Kurdish and Sunni enter into negotiations to form the next government after the announcement of the largest parliamentary bloc by one of the two Shiite camps.

http://www.nrttv.com/AR/News.aspx?id=3883&MapID=2

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Wisdom: 40 deputies will withdraw from their blocs and join the nucleus of the largest bloc

04:51 - 30/08/2018

Special - Mawazin News 
Hakim, led by Ammar al-Hakim, on Thursday, that the deputies will withdraw from their blocs and join the nucleus of the largest bloc, while referring to the possibility of announcing the largest bloc before the new parliament on September 3. 
"About 40 deputies from other blocs, including the Fatah, will withdraw from their blocs to join the nucleus of the largest bloc formed by the Alliance of Suron, wisdom, patriotism and the victory coalition at the meeting of the Babylon Hotel," said a member of the General Authority of the Wisdom Current Ali al-Rafii. 
He added that "the largest bloc arithmetically needs 220 deputies to resolve the three presidencies and this number is not currently available to the nucleus, which has a number of deputies to 125 deputies and through dialogues that the Quartet quartet of the nucleus of the largest bloc could reach the largest bloc before the first meeting of the new parliament on September 3 ".
The coalition led by Muqtada al-Sadr, the formation of the nucleus of the largest bloc after a meeting with delegations from the coalition of victory led by Haider Abadi and the stream of wisdom led by Ammar al-Hakim and the National Coalition led by Iyad Allawi in the Babylon Hotel.

https://www.mawazin.net/Details.aspx?jimare=9333

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US policy to lift the secret of the minutes of the investigation with Qais al-Khazali to surprise surprise Iran and Sadr

 

 

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(Reuters) - Iran has moved events in Iraq from behind a curtain after 2003 by providing financial and military support to militia leaders, according to a US investigative report with the leader of the group known as Asaib Ahl al-Haq in Iraq, Qais al-Khazali, who was kept secret for 10 years. 
Khazali was detained by US forces in 2007 to investigate his role in the killing of five US soldiers in Karbala. 
Al-Khazali, speaking in a secret report several months ago and published in the Wall Street Journal, spoke of Iran's efforts to train its militia, which later turned into a political party, and relations between Tehran and Iraqi political figures such as late President Jalal Talabani and Muqtada al-Sadr. 
These records are being circulated in Washington at a time when the administration of President Donald Trump is considering the inclusion of Khazali and Asaib Ahl al-Haq on terrorism lists.

Iranian Incitement 
In an investigative report with al-Khazali on 18 June 2007, the latter revealed training provided by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards to Iraqi Shiite militias in three bases near Tehran, including the Imam Khomeini base visited by Khazali. 
But the Iranians did not train the Iraqi Shiite militias on their own. According to the investigation, "there are Iranians and Lebanese from Hezbollah conducting training in those bases ... The Iranians are experts in the all-out war, while the Lebanese are specialized in street or gang warfare." 
The Iranians suggested targets for attacks by militias in Iraq at the time. They asked Shi'ite militias to focus some of their attacks on British forces to "push them out" and increase pressure on the United States to withdraw, the Wall Street Journal reported. 
Britain was a US partner in the US-led coalition.
US forces pulled out of Iraq in 2011 before returning in 2014 as part of the International Coalition to defeat Dahesh, who succeeded in helping the Iraqi government defeat the organization. 
In the investigation, Khazali spoke of supplying the militias with improvised explosive devices that killed and wounded hundreds of American soldiers. 
"The detainee (Khazali) said that anyone can receive training on these packages and that Iran does not care about who gets it ... This is due to the availability and availability of these packages." 
Khazali was arrested and interrogated by the US authorities after the "Karbala Provincial Council, which Iran planned," Khazali told investigators. 
The aim of the operation was the exchange of US soldiers presumed to have been kidnapped by Sadr followers detained by the US-led coalition, but the operation ended with the deaths of five US soldiers.
Khazali was handed over to the Iraqi authorities in late 2009 after he promised that the militia he commanded would give up the weapon and was released shortly afterwards.

Sadr and trips to Iran 
Asaib Ahl al-Haq's militia broke away in 2004 from Sadr's Mehdi Army, but relations between the two men witnessed many stops before they degenerated, including several visits to Iran. 
Khazali told American investigators about several trips to Iran alone and accompanied by Moqtada al-Sadr in search of money, political support and weapons. 
According to the Wall Street Journal, the investigations with al-Khazali are full of details about Sadr's dealings with the Iranians and Sadr's desire to control Iranian money flowing to political groups in Iraq. 
During one of his solo visits in 2005, Iranians told Khazali that al-Sadr should take part in the Iraqi elections to ensure that "the Shiite people would have full control over the country and the government."
Khazali told American voters that a number of political figures in Iraq were sympathetic to Iran or influenced by its influence, including Jalal Talabani, the late Iraqi president. 
The good relations between the two parties did not last that long, according to an investigation report dated January 2008, in which Khazali revealed a disagreement with Sadr, who said he had "no principles and only works for personal gain."

Politics Years 
After nearly a decade on US investigations with Khazali, the Iraqi political landscape has shifted and the roles of the two men have changed. 
Sadr froze the Mehdi Army in the late 1990s and now leads the so-called "Saroon" movement, which is the result of the last legislative elections in May. 
Khazali still maintains strong relations with Iran, according to the American newspaper, and turned Asaib Ahl al-Haq to politics to win 15 seats in the new parliament of Iraq. 
The Iraqi researcher Kirk Suel told the Wall Street Journal that these seats could involve Khazali within an alliance or exploit them to become a voice to oppose the next government. 
"They had one seat (Asaib Ahl al-Haq) and they played a big role because they had arms and now they have 15 seats."
Sadr has been successful as a voice for the opposition over the past few years and Khazali may gain influence and popularity in a similar fashion.

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Edited August 30, 2018 by Butifldrm

[Pitcher]

Thank you for these articles Buti.  

 

Im getting a feeling the Iranians and their proxy politicians are trying to stretch out the formation of the government so they can demand new elections. I’m not sure when the government formation clock started but according to their law they have 90 days to form the government after the election was ratified.