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*****Iraqiya slammed for submitting ‘ineligible’ Defense Ministry candidates*****
23/08/2011 14:11
Baghdad, Aug. 23 (AKnews) – *****The al-Iraqiya list led by former interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi has been accused of deliberately prolonging the political crisis over the Defense Ministry leadership by submitting candidates that have already been rejected.*****
Saad al-Mutlabi from the State of Law Coalition (SLC) led by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said today that all of Iraqiya’s candidates, with the exception of the former Interior Minister Jawad al-Bolani, have previously been submitted and deemed “ineligible”.
*****“The Iraqiya list is seeking to create crises by not nominating candidates that get the approval of the political blocs," Mutlabi said.*****
Al-Iraqiya was promised the Defense ministry as part of the power-sharing deal – signed by the political blocs in Erbil at the end of last year to bring to term a nine-month political impasse that had paralyzed the country’s political process since the March 7 legislative poll - that gave Maliki the green light to form the current government.
Maliki has personally headed the three key security ministries of the Interior, Defense and National Security since his cabinet was inaugurated last December because of ongoing political disputes over the suitability of the political blocs’ different nominees for the posts.
The leaders of the main political factions gathered in the Baghdad home of President Jalal Talabani on August 2 in a bid to resolve some of the main issues of contention between them. It was agreed that new candidates for the security ministry posts would be nominated within two weeks.
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23/08/2011 14:11
Baghdad, Aug. 23 (AKnews) – *****The al-Iraqiya list led by former interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi has been accused of deliberately prolonging the political crisis over the Defense Ministry leadership by submitting candidates that have already been rejected.*****
Saad al-Mutlabi from the State of Law Coalition (SLC) led by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said today that all of Iraqiya’s candidates, with the exception of the former Interior Minister Jawad al-Bolani, have previously been submitted and deemed “ineligible”.
*****“The Iraqiya list is seeking to create crises by not nominating candidates that get the approval of the political blocs," Mutlabi said.*****
Al-Iraqiya was promised the Defense ministry as part of the power-sharing deal – signed by the political blocs in Erbil at the end of last year to bring to term a nine-month political impasse that had paralyzed the country’s political process since the March 7 legislative poll - that gave Maliki the green light to form the current government.
Maliki has personally headed the three key security ministries of the Interior, Defense and National Security since his cabinet was inaugurated last December because of ongoing political disputes over the suitability of the political blocs’ different nominees for the posts.
The leaders of the main political factions gathered in the Baghdad home of President Jalal Talabani on August 2 in a bid to resolve some of the main issues of contention between them. It was agreed that new candidates for the security ministry posts would be nominated within two weeks.
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