{"id":16592,"date":"2014-05-27T11:20:52","date_gmt":"2014-05-27T10:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news1613067580\/news-sp-256\/iran-a-world\/16592-barzani-threatens-referendum-in-kurdistan-if-maliki-gets-third-term"},"modified":"2023-01-14T21:11:09","modified_gmt":"2023-01-14T20:11:09","slug":"barzani-threatens-referendum-in-kurdistan-if-maliki-gets-third-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-a-world\/barzani-threatens-referendum-in-kurdistan-if-maliki-gets-third-term\/","title":{"rendered":"Barzani threatens referendum in Kurdistan if Maliki gets third term"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"barzani\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-41805\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/05\/barzani.jpg\" border=\"0\" style=\"float: left;margin: 5px\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>London,\u00a0<em>Asharq Al-Awsat<\/em>\u2014The president of Iraq\u2019s Kurdistan Region, Massoud Barzani, threatened on Monday to hold a referendum on renegotiating the autonomous region\u2019s relationship with Baghdad if incumbent Iraqi Prime Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/no-to-nouri-al-maliki\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nuri Al-Malik<\/a>i wins a third term in office.<\/p>\n<p>During a visit to Paris on Monday, Barzani said that Kurds would not join a government headed by Maliki, according to a statement issued by the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Maliki secures a third term in office, our choice will be a public referendum in Kurdistan on a new formula for our relations with Baghdad,\u201d Barzani is reported to have said during a meeting with Syrian opposition leader Ahmed Al-Jarba.<\/p>\n<p>Barzani did not specify what the \u201cnew formula\u201d for relations between Erbil and Baghdad would be.<\/p>\n<p>The statement also quoted the KDP\u2019s leader as saying that Kurdistan would work with the other political parties to find \u201ca real partner\u201d to head the next federal government of Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>Barzani\u2019s declaration came as negotiations continued on the formation of a new government for Iraq, with Maliki seeking to assemble a majority coalition and win a third term as prime minister.<\/p>\n<p>Despite coming first in Iraq\u2019s recent parliamentary election, Maliki\u2019s State of Law coalition failed to achieve an outright victory, winning 92 out of 328 seats.<\/p>\n<p>Maliki now faces the task of trying to win over many smaller forces and blocs in order to secure the majority he needs to form a government.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to\u00a0<em>Asharq Al-Awsat<\/em>, one KDP lawmaker, Shawan Mohamed Taha, claimed Barzani\u2019s stance represented the view of most of Iraq\u2019s Kurdish parties, which he said had met recently and agreed \u201ca united position and a unified Kurdish discourse and direction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Taha said: \u201cThis is what made Barzani cut all threads of hope that Maliki was clinging to. He [the prime minister] thought that all the things he is doing could eventually be a political bargaining chip.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Taha added that Baghdad\u2019s decision to stop paying the salaries and pensions of public sector employees and retirees in Kurdistan had made it more difficult to reach an understanding with Maliki.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Kurds have now come to the conclusion that there can be no reasoning with Maliki, who cut off the livelihood of the province\u2019s employees in order to make the Kurds kneel down,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>According to Taha, discussions between the Kurdish parties and other Iraqi political groups and blocs, including the Sadrist Al-Ahrar party, the Sunni Al-Muwatin and Mutahidoun, and the secular Al-Wataniyya, revolved around the idea that Maliki would not serve a third term as PM \u201cunder any circumstances.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The three major parties in Iraqi Kurdistan, the KDP, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, and the Goran Movement, won 55 seats in the election. Smaller Islamist parties based in the autonomous region won 7.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Maliki managed to court a number of smaller blocs in Iraq\u2019s parliament, bringing the number of seats controlled by his allies to 112. However, he has so far been unable to attract allies away from the larger parliamentary blocs in his quest for the 165 seats he needs for a majority.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, his major political rivals\u2014the Kurdish Alliance, Mutahidoun, the Sadrist Movement, the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI), Al-Wataniyya and Al-Arabiyya\u2014have taken steps towards forming a \u201cgrand coalition\u201d capable of securing a parliamentary majority.<\/p>\n<p>A statement by the Mutahidoun coalition said that its leader, parliamentary speaker Osama Al-Nujaifi, had met with Wataniyya leader Iyad Allawi and Saleh Al-Mutlaq, the leader of Al-Arabiya bloc, during which the results of the election were discussed, along with \u201cthe violations it involved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mohamed Al-Khaledi, an MP for Mutahidoun, told\u00a0<em>Asharq Al-Awsat<\/em>\u00a0that Maliki\u2019s rivals had \u201cmade important headway\u201d in reaching an understanding, and that the two key members of the Shi\u2019ite National Alliance&amp;#8212l;the ISCI and the Sadrist Movement\u2014remained united in their rejection of a third term for Maliki.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[We have the opportunity] to secure more than 200 MPs, which represents a sufficient majority and a lot more, to form the government quickly and without bargaining,\u201d Khaledi said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a senior member of the ISCI, Baqir Al-Zubaidi, who is seen as one of Maliki\u2019s chief rivals for the premiership, said he expected the coalition of smaller blocs Maliki is trying to assemble would eventually form the opposition to a government composed of Maliki\u2019s rivals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London,&nbsp;Asharq Al-Awsat&mdash;The president of Iraq&rsquo;s Kurdistan Region, Massoud Barzani, threatened on Monday to hold a referendum on renegotiating the autonomous region&rsquo;s relationship with Baghdad if incumbent Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[175],"class_list":{"0":"post-16592","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-iran-a-world","7":"tag-updated"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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