Salah al-Din demands are constitutional, Parliament Speaker
FILE – In this Dec. 12, 2009 file photo, Osama al-Nujeifi the elected parliament speaker speaks to the press after an Iraqi Parliament session in Baghdad, Iraq. Al-Nujaifi, and his brother, Ninevah Gov. Atheel al-Nujaifi, are two of the most powerful Sunni Arabs in Iraq’s north and have taken hardline pains to limit Kurdish power in Mosul. The 54-year-old speaker was born in Mosul and has a degree in electric engineering.
BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: Parliamentary Speaker Usama Nujaifi regarded the demand of province to establish a region is “constitutional” and “no right to any one, including the government to intervene.” In a press conference today to discuss Salah al-Din and Anbar cases, he added that “the intervention in the provincial authorities led to demanding the formation of the regions.” He expected that this trend will be dispersed to the southern parts of Iraq, calling for a balanced and qualified relations between the center and the provinces. Today, the Iraqi parliament held an expanded meeting with Salahuddin and Anbar officials and tribal sheikhs, according to media center. Salah al-Din provincial council, 157 km north of the capital, Baghdad, announced last week the province as a region “within a unified Iraq.” In Anbar province, demonstrations roamed the city demanding the release of the detained ex-officers and to stop random arrests, while the Emir of Delaim tribes to boycott the government following intruding into his quarter and arresting four of his bodyguards.