Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) MP, Mohammed Eqbal, of al-Wasat Allaince expected that “The political process to witness high tensions between Kurdistan Region and the Central government after holding the Arab Summit in Baghdad.”
Speaking to Iraqi News (IraqiNews.com) on Monday, he stated “The tensions resulted for different reasons such as not contributing the privileges and the Oil and Gas law draft which was included in the constitution,” noting that “Many of the constitution items are not clear over contributing privileges.”
“The political process in Iraq was not done according to correct values and the presence of the US forces was covering most of the arguments among the political blocs,” he added, assuring that “There are huge disagreements in the political process.”
He assured that “Avoiding disputes is important in this time because the political process will collapse and results in unacceptable results,” he concluded.
Recently, the relations between the State of Law Coalition and the Kurdistani Alliance witnessed some tensions as the President of Kurdistan Region, Masoud Barzani, in his speech at the Second National Conference for the Kurdistani Youth held in Erbil on Thursday, said “We will not hand over VP Hashimi because he came to Kurdistan Region to meet with the President Talabani,” calling “to settle his case through the three presidencies.”
For his part, Yasin Majeed, member of the State of Law Coalition criticized Barzani’s statements about not handing over the judicially wanted Vice-President, Tariq al-Hashimi.
Speaking to Iraqi News (IraqiNews.com), he stated “Barzani stated that the Kurdish morals do not allow them to hand over Hashimi. We are wondering about the Kurdish morals when the previous regime in 1996 had captured about 700-900 of the patriotic figures of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan and the Iraqi National Conference.”
