Monday, April 30, 2007
Iraqi newspaper - cabinet reshuffle to be held in 72 hours
Politics
(Voices of Iraq) - The Shiite al-Bayyina al-Jadida newspaper wrote in its Sunday issue that the expected cabinet reshuffle in Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's government is due in the coming 72 hours, while the government-funded al-Sabah newspaper published an exclusive report providing details of the blast that tore through Karbala yesterday, killing and injuring dozens of people. On its front page, al-Bayyina al-Jadida published a headline that read, 'Al-Maliki brushes aside Paul Bremer's garbage and the quota system. Independents and al-Sadr's followers alike support one united Iraq.'
The newspaper said that indications reveal that the expected Iraqi cabinet reshuffle will take place in the coming 72 hours. Quoting those whom it called political analysts, the newspaper said that the decision made by the Iraqi Independents' Bloc of the Shiite United Iraqi Coalition (UIC) to withdraw from the government last Friday, following in the footsteps of the Sadrist bloc, would give al-Maliki a chance to nominate technocrats and independents to the new cabinet.
Conducting an opinion poll that covered a number of Iraqi ministries and political centers, the newspaper wrote that al-Maliki has managed to gradually abolish the sectarian quota system, thus being the first Iraqi prime minister to sweep aside Bremer's negative legacy and set up a political stage away from sectarianism, contrary to his predecessors whom the newspaper said had strengthened the quota system.
The newspaper said that indications reveal that the expected Iraqi cabinet reshuffle will take place in the coming 72 hours. Quoting those whom it called political analysts, the newspaper said that the decision made by the Iraqi Independents' Bloc of the Shiite United Iraqi Coalition (UIC) to withdraw from the government last Friday, following in the footsteps of the Sadrist bloc, would give al-Maliki a chance to nominate technocrats and independents to the new cabinet.
Conducting an opinion poll that covered a number of Iraqi ministries and political centers, the newspaper wrote that al-Maliki has managed to gradually abolish the sectarian quota system, thus being the first Iraqi prime minister to sweep aside Bremer's negative legacy and set up a political stage away from sectarianism, contrary to his predecessors whom the newspaper said had strengthened the quota system.
Labels: al-Bayyina al-Jadida, cabinet reshuffle, Nouri Al-Maliki
