Omar Fadhil of Iraq the Model, posting his thoughts and observations on the Iraqi constitutional referendum, is not thrilled with the document itself. He's not alone, of course. There are the Sunnis who came very close to voting it down. But I get the sense that nobody is really happy with the constitution and they're all preparing for the amendment process.
...today spokesmen of three Sunni parties announced that they intend to enter the December elections as one body. The three parties are the Islamic Party, the Ahl Al-Iraq Council and the National Dialogue Council. This came only two weeks after the Islamic Party made a deal with the Kurdish and Sheat parties to back the constitution. This deal was strongly criticized by the other two Sunni parties mentioned above and this indicates that they want to put their differences behind their backs for a while and watch for the coming elections. Watching this, one can predict that the new parliament will have at least 4 major blocs instead of 3 and this will certainly reduce the possibility of having the decision making power monopolized by one bloc, which is good in general.
I have explained before that I’m personally not so excited about the document itself and therefore I view the approval as a step that allows us to introduce amendments. Anyway, it was a positive step that brought a sense of relief to the majority of our people.
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