Al-Maliki ready to form alliances in provincial councils

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: The Iraqi Premier Nouri al-Maliki on Wednesday said that his political bloc is ready to form political alliances in new provincial councils. “The principles of forming alliances, cooperation and distributing official posts will be our target, because that is what we believe in and work for,” al-Maliki said from Najaf that he arrived earlier today. “I cannot comment on what this or that bloc has achieved, but I say that those who had participated in the electoral process have succeeded,” he added after a meeting with Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali al-Sistani that took more than an hour. “All participants should cooperate to make a better administration,” he explained. “We say to all the blocs that would win the provincial election that it is necessary to cooperate and form alliances to form the best provincial councils that gather us on the basis of partnership,” he noted. MH (P)/SH 2