Barzani reviews with Allawi forming new gov.

Barzani reviews with Allawi forming new gov.


July 7, 2010 - 04:44:07

ARBIL / Aswat al-Iraq: President of Iraq’s Kurdistan region, Massoud Barzani, said on Wednesday that he discussed with Head of al-Iraqiya list Iyad Allawi the formation of the new government as well as the political developments in the country, according to the chief of the Iraqi Kurdistan presidential cabinet.
“Barzani received Allawi at Salah el-Din resort, during which they exchanged viewpoints regarding the formation of the new government as well as the latest political developments in the country,” Fouad Hussein told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
“Kurds underline on the participation of all political blocs in the coming government,” Hussein added quoting Barzani as saying.
Differences are heating up among the al-Iraqiya, which obtained 91 seats, and Maliki’s Dawlat al-Qanoon (State of Law), which came second with 89 seats, to win the post of prime minister for the new government.
Incumbent Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki’s bloc struck a coalition with Ammar al-Hakeem’s Iraqi National Alliance (INA), together having 159 seats, in a bid to form the largest parliamentary bloc, a matter viewed by Allawi’s al-Iraqiya as a twisting of democracy on the grounds that his bloc was the largest one with votes in the elections and consequently it has the right to form a government.

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