Thursday, December 21, 2006
New political coalition to be announced in a month
Politics
Abbas al-Bayati, a Shi'ite lawmaker from the United Iraqi Alliance, said on December 19 that a new political coalition will be announced within a month, the "Al-Sabah" newspaper reported the same day. Sources indicated that the coalition could be forged between the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), the Kurdish Alliance, the Sunni-led Islamic Party, as well as the Iraqi National Accord movement, and Prime Minister al-Maliki's Al-Da'wah Party. Al-Bayati said that the aim of the new coalition is to form a moderate nonsectarian bloc to support al-Maliki.
