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Political leaders are threatening to withdraw the confidence of the Maliki government
Date: Monday 05/07/2012 8:28
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in a letter published Saturday in one of the official newspapers, four of the top political leaders in Iraq's fragile coalition threatened to vote to withdraw confidence from the government that did not stop tyranny in decision-making. The Shiite-Sunni coalition began to crack in the Kurdish last December after the departure of U.S. forces
When the government tried to exclude Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Saleh al-Mutlaq from office and issued an arrest warrant for Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi. These two incidents caused the intensification of the ongoing tensions between the long main blocs which hindered the government's ability to pass the basic laws in the country. On the other hand engaged the government in Baghdad and the Kurdistan Regional Government in the raging dispute about oil exports. Political sources said the top four leaders - Osama Najafi, Massoud Barzani, Iyad Allawi, and Moqtada al-Sadr - on Thursday sent a letter to the bloc of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki. Has already been accused by some opponents of Maliki, Sadr, and among them Barzani, the Prime Minister to become a dictator. Indicate the message eight demands to the Prime Minister carried out before May 13 to secure the support of the four leaders of his government. The letter "in case of refusal to apply the principles and frameworks of this Agreement will take practical steps during the period of time not exceeding fifteen days after which a vote of no confidence from the government." Letter dated April 28 is the last day of a mini-summit held a three-day Arab leaders, which they tried to find a solution to the political deadlock. Maliki did not attend that meeting which was held in Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan region.
letter called Maliki's government to stop interfering in the affairs of the security forces in the work of Parliament, also included a section critical of totalitarianism in the decision-making. Says demand for the sixth "put an end to any kind of individual decision-making in the pyramid of government and the tendency to despotism." In addition, the letter also called for making the mandate of the Prime Minister for only two sessions, with session-Maliki exercised his second term as prime minister. As stated in the message "This is necessary to ensure a peaceful transition of power and to establish the foundations and principles of democracy and for the purpose not to allow the provision of an atmosphere of dictatorship." Mr. Sadr has a history of relations acclaimed sharp with Maliki.
the other hand, in a statement to Mr. Ibrahim Jaafari, head of the National Alliance, which he said that the mass-Maliki met on Thursday and pledged to hold an expanded meeting of all the political components of the alliance in a week to reach a solution to this crisis.
n for : Reuters
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