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| Bateekh: No govt. to be formed without Iraqiya | |
| 2010-10-17 | |
| BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: A member from al-Iraqiya said on Saturday that no government would be formed without his bloc, adding statements otherwise are neither rational nor in line with the current state of affairs in Iraq. “Whoever calls for forming a government without the participation of al-Iraqiya bloc are simply not respecting the will of the Iraqi people. Furthermore, this practically impossible, otherwise the political blocs could have done that long ago,” Jamal al-Bateekh told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
Bateekh noted that his bloc has shown enough flexibility during all the previous stages with all blocs, noting “the ball is now in their courts if they ever want to resume negotiations with us based on respect for the results of the legislative elections”. Al-Iraqiya, a political bloc led by former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, has won 91 out of a total 325 parliamentary seats in the March 7 general elections in Iraq, followed by incumbent Nouri al-Maliki’s Dawlat al-Qanoon (State of Law) with 89 seats, the Iraqi National Alliance (INA) with 70 seats and the Kurdistan Alliance (KA) with 43 seats. | |
| Posted by:Steve White |