PM arrives in Mosul within electoral campaign

Mosul-Maliki NINEWA / IraqiNews.com: Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Thursday arrived in Mosul within his electoral campaign for the upcoming provincial council elections. The premier arrived in Ninewa this morning and headed to the city hall, where he will hold a press conference within his activities to support his list’s electoral campaign in the upcoming provincial council elections. Al-Maliki is heading Dawlat al-Qanoon (State of Law) list for the coming elections. Dawlat al-Qanoon (State of Law) list is composed of Maliki’s Islamic Dawa Party, the Dawa Party – Iraq Organization, the Islamic Solidarity List, Feyli Kurds, the Islamic Union for Iraqi Turkmen and the Mustaqiloon (Independents) bloc. The provincial council elections are scheduled to be held on January 31 in Iraq’s 18 provinces save Kirkuk and the three autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan region provinces of Arbil, Sulaimaniya, and Duhuk. The premier has visited the southern provinces of Missan, Nassiriya, Karbala, Basra, Diwaniya, Muthanna, Babel and Najaf in the past few days and met with resident and chieftains to encourage them to take part in the elections. SH (S)/SR 1