Iraqi National Alliance names Abdulmahdi as PM
Baghdad - 03-09-2010
The Iraqi National Alliance (INA) announced on Friday that it agreed to name Vice President Adel Abdulmahdi as prime minister as the third figure nominated for the post after Ayad Allawi and Nouri al-Maliki. “The INA agreed to officially name Abdulmahdi, a leading member of Ammar al-Hakim’s Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council (SIIC), for the prime minister post,”. The INA had met earlier on Friday to take a final decision on naming their candidate for the post of prime minister despite a decision by Ibrahim al-Jaafari’s al-Islah (Reform) bloc and Ahmed Chalabi’s Iraqi National Congress (INC) not to attend that meeting. It is not yet clear whether the INA would offer its named candidate Abdulmahdi to Maliki’s Dawlat al-Qanoon (State of Law) bloc as an alternative to Maliki.
The INA is a political bloc announced on August 24, 2009 to enter the country’s parliamentary elections. It encompasses the SIIC (20 seats), the Sadrist Movement of Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr (40 seats), al-Fadila (Virtue) Party under Hashimi al-Hashimi (7 seats), Jaafari’s al-Islah bloc (1 seat) and Chalabi’s INC (1 seat).
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