Dr. Muhammad Seddigh Ahmad, the deputy-Representative of Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) of Iraq in Iran proceeded with some aspects of recent Parliament Elections of Iraq and the formation of the new cabinet in the meeting of Iraq Elections, opportunities and Challenges of the Region held by diplomacy Irani host. He noticed the Kurds unity in the matter of cooperation with new government of Iraq and emphasized that the ballots of Iraq people for a party does not mean a person’s policies triumph.
Dr. Muhammad Sddigh Ahmad in a part of his speech mentioned the possible chaos in Iraq will occur if all political parties do not participate in future government and he also believed that it is Nuri Maliki of being authoritarianism that causes such chaos but people. In addition in evaluating Mr. Mousavi phrase considering Iraq Elections as sign of victory of political process of the country and as a profit for Iran, he added that he does not believe it is advisable to be inspired that Iran supports a special person or party in Iraq to defeat this country. Basically Islamic Republic of Iran supports all Iraqi people and it is what Iran has done before.
In a part of his speech he said in my opinion it is so important for Iran to advocate people and spirituality. Of course its formal attitudes have always been in the direction of supporting moderate Shia spirituality in Iraq. In the Elections we witnessed Shia spirituality of Iraq were opposition to Iraqi Prime-Minister’s authoritarianic behaviors.
About the outcome of Iraq elections he said: in my opinion if the seats for Kurds as compared to former election does not high, it will not low either. Presently Kurds have 57 seats in Iraq Parliament and we guess this will increase in this election, also Kurds representative is not the only list of Patriotic Unions of Kurdistan of Iraq. Patriotic Union in the elections of 2010 faced decreasing ballots due to wrong tactics in dividing its representatives. It did not happen again. If we include possible seats of Patriotic Union and Change Movement altogether, they even do not amount to Kurdistan Democratic Party. Dr. Ahmad believes that the legal government coalition by itself cannot form the cabinet while has opponents among Sunni and Shia groups like Shahrvand and Sadri coalition.
As the last point Dr. Ahmad mentioned it was Kurds participation that refers to the future government. There are whispers that Nuri Maliki and the Change Movement and Patriotic Union are going to negotiate. Yesterday all Kurdish groups with the chairmanship of KR president hold a meeting. In a common notice signed by Kurdistan Democratic Party, the Change Movement, Patriotic Union and Islamic parties it was emphasized in the position of Kurds in political process of Iraq and the formation of future government. So I do not think a Kurdish group by itself negotiates with Baghdad government.