Talabani not neutral towards political issues, says MP
Speaking to Iraqi News (IraqiNews.com), he said “We are sure that Talabani is not satisfied with the performance of the Premier, Nouri al-Maliki, because he is not neutral.”
“Talabani behaves as a head of a Kurdish Party rather than a President and always we hear him calling for the Kurds’ rights in his statements,” he added.
“The President must be a patron for the constitution and the rights of all the Iraqi communities and that is why Talabani is not in content with Maliki,” he concluded.
Earlier, the spokesperson of the Patriotic Union of
A press statement by the PUK received by IraqiNews.com on Tuesday quoted Jundiyani, as saying “Talabani is not pleased with the performance of Maliki including his stances from the political crisis which the country is going through in the last few months.”
“We in the PUK, see that Maliki’s mistakes should be corrected or we will have to think of an approach to deal with these mistakes” Jundiyani added, noting that “We have substitutions to deal with this situation where we will closely observe Maliki stances and if he is committed to dialogue and negotiating approach.”
In his response to a question about Maliki’s stance from the national partnership as well as Maliki’s recent announcements that the national partnership ended, Jundiyani said “Maliki is not the one to decide the fate of the national partnership, the one who is responsible for this decision is Iraqi National Alliance, which considers the State of Law Coalition as a part of it.”