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BAGHDAD, July 10 (KUNA) -- Iraqi Vice President and leading figure of the
Iraqi List Tariq Al-Hashemi hailed here Saturday the leader of the State of
Law Coalition Nouri Al-Maliki's acceptance of of Dr. Iyad Allawi, head of the
Iraqi List, as the coming Prime Minister.
Al-Hashemi said that this stance is a positive development that is hoped to
put a quick end to the controversy over the Iraqi List's right to form the
cabinet in its capacity as the winning parliamentary bloc and the
constitutionally eligible one to form the government.
Al-Hashemi added in a statement that, "The Iraqi List deem such statements
as a positive political development on the part of the State of Law Coalition,
though this should be translated into an actual response through the
negotiation committees between the two sides."
He added, "We hope for the coming round of negotiations between the
relevant committees to be held soon."
On the coming parliamentary session and the possibility of finding
solutions that expedite the formation of government, Al-Hashemi said that this
depends on the stance of other parliamentary blocs, pointing out that "if our
partners took a quick move on the political process, then I think that there
would be a chance to agree on the remaining major posts."
Al-Maliki, the outgoing Iraqi Prime Minister said last Thursday in Beirut
following his meeting with Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Al-Hariri that, "there
is nothing precludes," Allawi's chairing of the new government, "when things
run according to the approved constitutional rules,".
Finally, he said that, "there is no veto power over one the parliamentary
blocs that took part in the elections and won." (end)
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