Shiite cleric says major blocs dominate parliament

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: Shiite Cleric Sheikh Mohammed al-Yaqoubi said that major political blocs are dominating the Iraqi Parliament, whose authority he said they use to serve their own interests. “The parliamentary decision has become contingent upon dominating political blocs…,” Yaqoubi said in a statement released by his media office and received by IraqiNews.com news agency. The Shiite cleric called on political powers to reconsider their political discourse and to serve the country’s supreme national interests. SS (P) 1