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07-21-2007, 05:37 AM
Sunni Party Insists Boycott Will Continue - National Dialogue Front "Will Not Return to Parliament Yet"
The National Dialogue Front (NDF) said it clings to its position suspending membership in the Iraqi parliament, adding it would continue pressing the government to "modify the course" of the political process, an NDF spokesman said on Friday, Voices of Iraq reports. "The NDF's decision coincided with the draft law on sacking Speaker Dr. Mahmoud al-Mashhadani but we had expressed our wish to suspend membership months ago," Haidar al-Mulla told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI) over the phone.
The predominantly Sunni Arab political front, led by Saleh al-Mutlak (http://www.iraqslogger.com/index.php/post/2886%20to%20saleh%20al-mutlak), "has nothing to do with the decision of the Sunni Tawafuq Front to end its boycott of parliament," said Mulla.
Tawafuq attended Thursday's session of the Iraqi parliament after a boycott of two weeks (http://www.iraqslogger.com/index.php/post/3648/Sunni_Bloc_Return) in protest against sacking Mashhadani, an IAF member.
A number of deputies called for relieving Mashhadani after his bodyguards assaulted an MP from the Shiite Unified Iraqi Coalition (UIC), the largest bloc in the Iraqi parliament with 115 seats out of a total 275 seats, last June.
Mulla said the NDF, which has 11 seats, might change its position "if matters required our return to parliament or if we viewed that some blocs were seeking to have certain draft laws that pose a threat against the country's future and political process passed."
He did not elaborate on these draft laws but one of the draft laws is referring to is very likely to be the controversial Iraqi oil bill (http://www.iraqslogger.com/index.php/post/3655/Oil_Law_Iraqi_Government_in_Limbo).
On Thursday Mashhadani called upon the Sunni National Dialogue Front to end suspension of its membership in parliament and return as soon as possible. (http://www.iraqslogger.com/index.php/post/3662/Speaker_Calls_for_Sunni_Party_to_End_Boycott)
http://www.iraqslogger.com/index.php/post/3678/Sunni_Party_Insists_Boycott_Will_Continue
(http://www.iraqslogger.com/index.php/post/3662/Speaker_Calls_for_Sunni_Party_to_End_Boycott)
The National Dialogue Front (NDF) said it clings to its position suspending membership in the Iraqi parliament, adding it would continue pressing the government to "modify the course" of the political process, an NDF spokesman said on Friday, Voices of Iraq reports. "The NDF's decision coincided with the draft law on sacking Speaker Dr. Mahmoud al-Mashhadani but we had expressed our wish to suspend membership months ago," Haidar al-Mulla told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI) over the phone.
The predominantly Sunni Arab political front, led by Saleh al-Mutlak (http://www.iraqslogger.com/index.php/post/2886%20to%20saleh%20al-mutlak), "has nothing to do with the decision of the Sunni Tawafuq Front to end its boycott of parliament," said Mulla.
Tawafuq attended Thursday's session of the Iraqi parliament after a boycott of two weeks (http://www.iraqslogger.com/index.php/post/3648/Sunni_Bloc_Return) in protest against sacking Mashhadani, an IAF member.
A number of deputies called for relieving Mashhadani after his bodyguards assaulted an MP from the Shiite Unified Iraqi Coalition (UIC), the largest bloc in the Iraqi parliament with 115 seats out of a total 275 seats, last June.
Mulla said the NDF, which has 11 seats, might change its position "if matters required our return to parliament or if we viewed that some blocs were seeking to have certain draft laws that pose a threat against the country's future and political process passed."
He did not elaborate on these draft laws but one of the draft laws is referring to is very likely to be the controversial Iraqi oil bill (http://www.iraqslogger.com/index.php/post/3655/Oil_Law_Iraqi_Government_in_Limbo).
On Thursday Mashhadani called upon the Sunni National Dialogue Front to end suspension of its membership in parliament and return as soon as possible. (http://www.iraqslogger.com/index.php/post/3662/Speaker_Calls_for_Sunni_Party_to_End_Boycott)
http://www.iraqslogger.com/index.php/post/3678/Sunni_Party_Insists_Boycott_Will_Continue
(http://www.iraqslogger.com/index.php/post/3662/Speaker_Calls_for_Sunni_Party_to_End_Boycott)