15 / Apr / 01
Erbil, April 1 / Oپrیl (PNA) - still Nuri al-Maliki welcomed his visitors in the same office with a marble floor inside the shaded villa in the heart of the heavily fortified Green Zone in Baghdad, as he did for 8 years as prime minister of the country.
Maliki currently maintained, as one of three deputies to the Iraqi president-elect, the post is largely ceremonial in the government of his successor, Haider al-Abadi. But do you really abandoned his quest for Maliki strenuously behind the power? The matter is still under question as increasingly out in a series of field trips declared the meet with tribal leaders and travels in foreign visits.
Maliki denied during an interview at his headquarters in the Green Zone quest to regain his former position, and pledged to support and the support of al-Abadi, who passed him 6 months so far in office, trying to quell the chaos that hit Iraq. Maliki received much of the blame about that mess, in terms of failing to communicate with the year and apply to policies described widely as fuel sectarianism in the country.
Maliki, however, does not rule out returning to the previous position in the day, al-Maliki said «Based on the popular support that I enjoy doing is still strong, I think that this is possible», pointing out that he focused his eyes on the next parliamentary elections in 2018. He said al-Maliki saying: «it possible legal and constitutional terms. But the selection of the Iraqi people at the end of it. »
The presence of al-Maliki in the Iraqi scene events ongoing challenge to Ebadi, who is trying to regain the occupied territories of the extremists and heal the rift with Sunni Arabs and Kurds. Maliki seems like exercise a degree of influence on a lot of members of Parliament more than Abadi himself, with more support for the owners in the state security services, he said. However, others question the extent of that influence, considering that his chance to return to the top of the events are very slim.
Maliki,) received in a recent trip in March (March to the city was liberated near Tikrit, Shiite fighters (PDF crowd) who were able to expel the organization Daash fighters, as if he was still in his former position. He said he «is normal to feel some of the security forces loyal to him», adding that «these militias have established whenever you are in power. The relationship with them very closely, and may be on the same dedication to me. And therefore I still work with them and support them and encourage them to fight. »
Maliki occupies a greater degree of al-Abadi within the Dawa Party, which belonged to him as al-Maliki holds the post of Secretary General of the Party. And suggests some of the members of the Dawa Party, mockingly, to Abadi as «Traffic cop», in reference to the fact that in spite of his ascension to the top of the pyramid of government in the country, but his grip on power is still highly questionable.
Although the two men out from under the cloak of a party, they differ in the very style of governance and administration, which may originate in disparate experiences in exile during the years of Saddam Hussein's rule. While al-Abadi, who speaks Anglo fluently and was employed electrical engineer in Britain, is one of those quiet relations with the West, the al-Maliki, who collapsed US support has rapidly during the last years of his reign, has close ties with Iran where he lived for several years.
Nor al-Maliki big picture still scattered all over Baghdad. The Abadi, on the contrary, it has been ordered not to publish any pictures of him in any place, in an attempt to break the Iraqi tradition about the fawning adulation and the ruling of the characters.
When al-Maliki to leave the Green Zone, it comes out in a large convoy of armored SUV. The Abadi has won plaudits when he visited a holy shrines in Baghdad accompanied by two bodyguards only. While Abadi avoids public ceremonies, Maliki took for himself the name «First Deputy President of the Republic», whereas before there was no difference between the three deputies to the country's president.
Commenting on the record of the Abadi, al-Maliki said that «what he does lies in the limits of the possible, not ambition is required, just a possible», but he acknowledged that his successor sits under considerable financial constraints and security situation of the country's fragile prevail.
Maliki was quick to point out what he considers such as defects in the Abadi policies. Since the oil deal with Kurds, which won a lot of Tribute - which has been described as a sign of the ability of the new Prime Minister to overcome differences that have torn the country under the rule of al-Maliki - is unconstitutional deal, as alleged al-Maliki, as it allows for Arbil to export some of Iraq's oil is independently.
The National Guard is the cornerstone of the project Abadi security policy, al-Maliki said «I suggested it, but not in the way it goes things recently. We have become a threat to national unity. »
When Abadi visited Iran for the first time last year, al-Maliki was followed by a visit to it after a few weeks, as well as encountering the Supreme Leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Maliki still argue that the decision to Abadi's nomination to head the government last summer was a decision «illegal» after winning the highest proportion of the number of votes. Maliki said: «all laws and procedures confirmed that al-Maliki deserves third term». However, it is alleged that the whole issue behind his back now. The «Today we cooperate together in the process of building the country and meet the challenges, and I am therefore keen on the success of the current government».
But this feeling of betrayal has stimulated planning to return and with the strong role that Iran plays in Iraq, al-Maliki is expected to reap gains. Valebadi of natural allies of Iran, which tried to prevent his candidacy for prime minister in the country which is subject to political influence broad. However, Tehran relented in the end when Iraq is on the brink of collapse.
Service: «Washington پost», the newspaper «Middle East»
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