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Iraq
Allawi's party quits the Maliki gov't
2007-08-25
The Iraqi List (IL) announced Friday it quitted the government of Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki seventeen days after it boycotted cabinet meetings. The decision to quit the government is a final one and there are no backpedaling on it, Iyad Jamal-Eddin, a leader of IL told KUNA here.
I'm hoping Verlaine could parse this for us...
A note on the decision will be tabled to Al-Maliki early this week, he pointed out. "The decision resulted from the government's failure to respond to our demands raised first in February. "The reasons behind the decision are the same as those behind our boycott of cabinet sessions since August 7.

"We reached a desperate situation in dealing with the government," Izzat Al-Shabandar, an IL MP, told KUNA. "All MPs from partners of the IL, except for the Communist Party of Iraq (CPI), are unanimous on the decision to withdraw from government," he underscored, adding that a note to this effect will be sent to the prime minister soon.

The IL attributed its decision to the government's disregard of demands included in two previous IL notes and the government's inability to improve performance. The IL parliamentarian ruled out the link between the timing of quitting the government, on one hand, and the coming visit of IL chief Iyad Allawi to the US and growing demands by the US Congress to change Al-Maliki's government, on the other. However he said the political atmosphere was promising. There are growing demands by Iraqi MPs as well to change the government of Al-Maliki who is no longer able to run the country's affairs.

Invited by some members of the US Congress, Allawi will visit Washington soon. The IL has 25 out of a total of 275 seats of parliament. Its decision to quit the government followed a similar decision made by the Iraqi National Accord, the third largest parliamentary bloc, which controls 44 seats. Out of 37 portfolios of Al-Maliki's cabinet the IL used to control five ministries namely: justice, science and technology, communications, human rights and the post of a minister of state.
Posted by:Seafarious

#3  Il pleut dans ma coeur
Comme il pleut sur les toits
Quelle est ce merde
Que penetre mon coeur?

or sumpin like that
Posted by: Paul V.   2007-08-25 14:53  

#2  I think it's time to start putting pressure on them to get with the program. Not as separate political parties, but as a country. A little talk of pulling out might be just what they need to hear from Bush.
Posted by: bigjim-ky   2007-08-25 12:37  

#1  So when does Maliki's government have to call new elections? Or can it hobble along without any other parties' support?
Posted by: Anonymoose   2007-08-25 11:51  

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