k98nights Posted September 29, 2010 Report Share Posted September 29, 2010 Allawi-Assad meeting positive - spokesperson September 29, 2010 - 04:01:00 BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: Spokesperson of the al-Iraqiya List described on Wednesday the meeting between Iyad Allawi and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as positive. “The meeting was positive and the Syrian government said it has significant relations with all Iraqi blocs and with Iran too, and will play a role in supporting Iraqis to form their government,” Mayson al-Damlouji told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. Allawi had headed for Damascus on Tuesday (Sept. 28) in response to an invitation from the Syrian President to discuss the latest developments in Iraq. Assad had held talks with Allawi last July on forming the Iraqi government. Differences among political blocs reached their zenith between the main two blocs, al-Iraqiya of former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi and the State of Law of incumbent Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, with the first obtaining 91 out of the new parliament’s 325 seats while the second obtained 89. The State of Law formed a coalition with the Iraqi National Alliance (INA) to garner the largest number of seats in the new parliament. This claim was rejected by al-Iraqiya bloc, which argued that it had been the winner of the largest number of seats in the parliament and that it has the right to form the new government. Iraq’s March 7 nationwide elections had ended with four main Iraqi political blocs obtaining most seats, as Iraqiya won 91 seats, followed by Maliki’s State of Law with 89 seats, Ammar Al-Hakim’s INA with 70 seats and the Kurdistan Alliance of Iraqi Kurdistan Region President Massoud Barzani and Iraqi President Jalal Talabani as well as a number of Kurdish Islamic parties with 57 seats. SH (P) http://en.aswataliraq.info/?p=137378 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cgbrown Posted September 29, 2010 Report Share Posted September 29, 2010 More talks, 'positive' nothing accomplished. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Traconesu02 Posted September 29, 2010 Report Share Posted September 29, 2010 Thanks for the post k98nights Wouldn't it be great to have a nickel for every time they have mentioned how many seats each bloc won in the election. We would all be rich. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dinarinmi Posted September 29, 2010 Report Share Posted September 29, 2010 Is this article from May? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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