Three leading Iraqi Coalitions won’t vote on one of three candidates for Vice-Presidents posts

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: A legislature from al-Iraqiya Bloc, led by its leader Iyad Allawi, said her Bloc, the Sadrist Trend and the Kurdistan Alliance, have agreed not to vote for one of the two candidates of the National Alliance for the three posts of the Vice-Presidents, in order to enable the Turkomen to score the post. “Al-Iraqiya Bloc, the Sadrist Trend and the Kurdistan Alliance, have agreed not to vote for one of the two candidates of the National Alliance for the Vice-Presidents posts,” Nahida al-Dainy said, stressing that the agreement “would share in granting the post for the Turkomen.”  The “previous agreement had been to nominate three candidates for the Vice-Presidents’ posts, one of them from the National Alliance, the second from al-Iraqiya and the third from the Turkomen, but what has taken place was the nomination of one of them by al-Iraqiya and two from the National Alliance,” she noted. The Media Office of Iraqi President, Jalal Talabani, had announced on Feb. 7, 2011 that the President had presented a proposal to the Parliament to adjust the law on the Vice-Presidents, calling for the addition of a fourth post and to nominate a Turkoman personality to occupy the post. SKH (PT)/SR 472