Allawi to visit Kurdistan to discuss govt. lineup

BAGHDAD /Iraqi News The head of the al-Iraqiya bloc Iyad Allawi will visit the Iraqi Kurdistan region soon to meet Jalal Talabani for consultations over the next government lineup, according to a spokesman for the Kurdistan Alliance bloc on Saturday. “The Kurds have good relations with Nouri al-Maliki’s Dawlat al-Qanoon (State of Law) coalition, the National Iraqi Alliance (NIA), Allawi’s bloc and the Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP),” said Friad Rawndozi in statements to Iraqi News. Iraq has witnessed on March 7 the largest legislative elections in the war-torn country to pick 325 lawmakers in the new parliament. Iraq’s Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) said that the turn out on the ballot stations reached 62%. AmR (P) 1