Wednesday, March 07, 2007
IAF leader announces new political alliance
Politics
(VOI) Head of the Iraqi Accordance Front (IAF), Adnan al-Dulaimi, unveiled on Tuesday the establishment of new political alliance called the Iraqi National Front, between the IAF and Iyad Allawi's Iraqi National List (INL). The new alliance will not represent any factional or sectarian trends, he added. "We had talks with the head of the Iraqi National List (INL), Iyad Allawi, as well as all parties participating in the ongoing political process, with a view to joining the bloc, which aims to end the sectarian violence and to save Iraq's unity," al-Dulaimi said in a statement received by the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI).
"We will work through the new bloc to step up pressure, on the government and the occupation forces, to end the bloodshed," the statement added. "The new alliance will not represent any sectarian or factional trends as it includes different Iraqi parties, and we will work on solving the security issue," the statement noted. Al-Dulaimi also wished Iraq's neighboring conference great success. The Iraqi Accordance Front is a Sunni parliamentary bloc with 44 seats out of the 275-member parliament while the former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's Iraqi National List has 25 seats.
COMMENT: The Iraqi National Front does not hold enough seats to make any major changes. However, that could change should other secular and Sunni parties join them such as Salih Mutlak's Sunni Arab National Dialogue Front and the Reconciliation and Reconstruction list of Mishaan Juburi. There is also a possibility that the continuous and ever-widening chasm within the UIA could encourage Shia parties such as the Islamic Virtue Party (Fadila) to jump ship. COMMENT ENDS.
Labels: Adnan Dulaimi, Iraqi Accordance Front, Iraqi National Front, Iraqi National List, Iyad Allawi
