 Outgoing interim Iraqi President Ghazi al-Yawir he has formed a committee of leading Sunni Muslim figures to negotiate for posts in an eventual Shia-Kurd coalition government.
| Good idea. Forming a committee always works. |
"In order to avoid multiple efforts, we have decided to form a committee that would preserve a role for Sunnis in the next government," he said on Monday. Apart from the symbolic position held by al-Yawir, Sunnis, who once dominated Saddam Hussein government, currently have eight of the outgoing government's cabinet seats. Sunnis garnered some 20 of the 275 seats in the newly-elected parliament due to a boycott of the 30 January elections by large segments of the community.
| See, that's kinda one of the peculiarities of democracy: if you don't vote, the guy you like doesn't get elected. Sometimes even when you do vote he doesn't, but if you don't vote you know he won't. |
The al-Yawir bloc includes figures like elder statesman Adnan al-Pachachi and Tariq al-Hashimi, Secretary-General of the Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP), which had officially pulled out of the elections. |