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Will the participation in the positions of the president and prime minister solve the current crisis?

Ruqaiya Yasser

Day after day the crisis of the coming government formation  in Iraq is getting complicated and no solutions …

Some initiatives are submitted occasionally by some political forces but they fail very soon and the reasons as some politicians say are latent in those empty spaces in the constitution articles and in the Rules of Procedure of the House of Representatives as well as the convergence of the recent election results .This made the political blocs stick to their decisions concerning the government forming ... Others think that the persistence of the winning forces in the election on their candidates for the post of prime minister is the only obstacle on the way to form the next government. On this  topic the leader of the  Kurdistan Alliance Sami Shoresh confirmed that there is  an agreement between the leader  of Iraqia bloc Iyad Allawi, and the  leader of the State of Law Noori al-Maliki to form Iraqi government over the next few days too. This came in a press statement saying "Allawi and Maliki had agreed that  they will get  the offices of  the Prime Minister the President for two years and it has been decided that presidency of the parliament is given to the Kurdistan Alliance." He added, "There is one controversial point remaining between Allawi and Maliki which is that Maliki wants to take over the government in the last two years of the current Parliamentary session, while Allawi has the same desire, but he expected this issue to be solved soon."   Sabah Alsaaidi the independent parliament member of National Coalition  said, "The political blocs are responsible for the imposition of any government  in front of the people for its refusal to make concessions on this matter and insist on their positions based on their interests away from the people's problems," adding that "These blocks would return Iraq to the international control on  its full, economic and political. Affairs ." For his part, the National Coalition member Jaafar al-Moussawi said that "The prime minister node between the political blocs is due to the numerous empty spaces in the articles of the Constitution and the Rules of Procedure of the Council of Representatives." Al-Moussawi said "the results of recent elections had been very close, so it was the cause of holding political blocs government formation process, as well as the legal vacuums in the articles of the Constitution reflected the sticking of the political blocs to  their decisions in the dialogues conducted with each other to form a government".