Maliki begins his efforts to stay in power and calls for “partners” to open a new page
Maliki begins his efforts to stay in power and calls for “partners” to open a new page
05.03.2014 (0:01 pm)
BAGHDAD / Reuters
Began to Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Thursday efforts yesterday after the elections to stay in power for a third term, saying that Iraq “pay the price in blood” because of a band called opponents to support his coalition to lead the country.
And Iraq held on Wednesday, 30 April past the first democratic general elections in the absence of foreign forces, despite reaching the levels of violence did not reach her since the period between 2005 and 2008.
He spoke Maliki belongs to the Shiite majority of the reporters seemed confident of victory and praised the popularity vote as a victory over the militants, who have vowed to kill the vote.
The end result will not be clear a few weeks ago. As in previous elections, is expected to outperform the parties with sectarian and ethnic trends but will not close any of the group to achieve a majority in the parliament’s 328 seats. Competing coalition of state law, which belongs to him al-Maliki with a coalition of Shiite factions competitors and is expected to be the two largest in the parliament, while parties will maintain the Kurds and Sunnis represent the balance of power.
After the last elections in 2010, a year before the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, Maliki spent about nine months to form a coalition to retain power which made the country suffer from political turmoil.
Maliki said on Thursday, told reporters about the elections “were responsible statements in the world that what happened in Iraq and teased impressive evidence of courage.” And rejected reports of wrongdoing, saying it was limited. He added that should his political opponents who Nafssoh during the campaign to work now with a coalition of state law.
Maliki said: “We have paid the price for disabling the projects we paid for it dearly, but the blood … I tell them to come with us, at least from now until the formation of the next government. Let’s move on. Should open a new page. We have to be responsible in the government and parliament to resolve a lot of problems . ” He denied that seeks personally to stay in power, but said it was his duty to continue the service if the coalition asked him to do so. He said, “I can not just sit back and humiliate people.”
When asked about the time it would take to form a new government replied that it depends on the negotiations with the other groups. He expressed hope that this is done as soon as possible, but expressed fears that this will take months.
Maliki also expressed the hope in the formation of a new coalition fully supports orientations in contrast to 2010, when he had to join the opposition and blamed them in disrupting his plans.
Maliki’s allies say they believe that he won more than 90 seats, which will allow him to dictate terms to the _khasmah key ISCI and the movement of Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.
Both groups say they want to leave the office of al-Maliki, arguing that the war against Sunni fighters fail and that his style of intimidation of political opponents led to foment violence. And say they can photograph replacement if Maliki were able to win nearly 70 seats won is a slightly larger number of them.
After their defeat to a large extent by the departure of American forces in 2011, Sunni insurgents returned last year to avenge the killing of hundreds of civilians every month in attacks on militants and seized towns in the west of the country. The forces fought Shiite-led government battles against Sunni insurgents and Shiite militia returned Maliki inhibits Jamahaa to be displayed for the implementation of reprisals.
The United Nations says 750 Iraqis were killed and wounded 1541 others in acts of violence during the month of April. These figures do not include the fighting in the west.
But elections Wednesday were more peaceful compared to what happened in previous years, although the bombers killed 12 people in the polling stations in Sunni areas north of Baghdad. There was no voting in the city of Fallujah in western Anbar province, which is controlled by Sunni militants belonging to the organization of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, who is leading the fighting in Iraq and Syria. He faced hundreds of thousands of displaced Sunnis difficulties in voting and polling stations closed in Sunni areas other.
This means the distribution of seats according to conservative Sunni areas will represent in Parliament even if it reduced the size of the violence involved there. But some Sunni leaders have refused to enter into a new government led by al-Maliki, which increases the possibility of being excluded from the ruling coalition, which is fueling discontent and encourages extremism.
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