| Submit your comments on this article |
| Iraq |
| Sadrist wants parliament to meet |
| 2010-08-27 |
| BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: Sadrist Lawmaker Bahaa al-Aaraji on Thursday expressed support of the call made by Vice President Adel Abdulmahdi to hold a parliament’s session. “Security and political developments highlight the need to hold a parliament’s session to tackle these developments and to find a solution for the current crisis,” al-Aaraji told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. The political chessboard in Iraq has been experiencing non-stop differences among the key blocs that won seats in the March 2010 legislative elections over the premiership and the government formation, namely between Maliki’s Dawlat al-Qanoon (State of Law) and former Premier Iyad Allawi’s al-Iraqiya bloc. The results prompt coalitions of several parties to guarantee a required majority at the 325-seat parliament in order to form a government. |
| Posted by:Steve White |