Al-Iraqiya Coalition’s threat to withdraw from government, aimed at rising its demands, MP says.

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: The Legislature for the Iraqi National Coalition, Ali al-Shilah, has said on Wednesday that al-Iraqiya Coalition’s threat to withdraw from the government aims at “rising its demands,” stressing that the defense minister’s post was not the right of a certain list, but of a “certain component.”   “The CVs of the candidates for the security cabinet posts have been announced, but they were not on Wednesday’s session,” Shilah told IraqiNews.com news agency, adding that “the defense minister’s post is not the right of a certain list, but of a ‘component,’ he did not name.   Shilah considered the threat by al-Iraqiya Coalition, led by former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, to withdraw from the government, in the event that the said candidates names would pass, “is aimed at rising their demands.”   “I am confident that nobody from al-Iraqiya Coalition shall withdraw, whether from the Parliament Speaker’s post, or from the deputy prime-minister’s or the ministers posts.. And this is mere talk we have been hearing since months,” Shilah said, pointing out that “there are several different viewpoints inside al-Iraqiya bloc.”   He said that “the current circumstances won’t allow the use of threat in the political process, whilst we hope that all of us would achieve success, and we don’t want to register points on some of us.”   Iraq’s Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, had presented the names of his candidates for the security cabinet posts, Riyadh Gharib for the National Security Minister’s post, Towfiq al-Yassiry for the Interior Minister’s post and Saadoun al-Duleimy for the Defense Minister’s post, whilst al-Iraqiya Coalition had threatened to withdraw from the government and the Parliament, in the event that those names, especially the candidate for the Defense Minister’s post, Saadoun al-Duleimy, would pass.   SKH (FT)   639