More over Iraq's ministerial candidates
Sunday, March 27th 2011 11:52 PM



Baghdad, March 27 (AKnews) – AL- Iraqiya MP from State of law coalition in the National coalition announced on Sunday that his bloc has provided the names of their candidates to the Iraqi Interior Ministry, but the latter rejected them, at the time Al-Iraqiya affirmed that the List, has not received formally any names to fill the security ministries that are still vacant despite the passage of more than three months of giving confidence to Nuri al-Maliki government.

The state of law MP, Izzat Shabandar told AKnews that "Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki will not succumb to any form of pressure over the candidates from the security ministries, and will not abandon the national and security results that have been made so far,"

The Prime Minister , Nuri al-Maliki postponed more than once providing candidates for the security ministries to the parliament due to the differences among the political blocs and even within the single bloc over the proposed names.

Al-Maliki manages Ministries of Defense, Interior and National Security Agency by acting since the announcement of the formation of uncompleted government on 21 of last December.

Although the parties agreed that the Ministry of Interior would be the share of the National coalition, the defense would be the share of AL- Iraqiya List, but each party rejected other party's candidates on grounds of neutrality and efficiency of candidates.

There was a prior agreement to hand over security bags to independents.

Al- Iraqiya List, denied formally receiving the names of the candidates for the ministries of Interior and National Security by the National coalition declared submitting names to fill the Defense Department.

Al-Iraqiya coalition formal spokesman , Haider Mulla told AKnews that "AL- Iraqiya List, has not received any formal offer for the candidates to the Ministries of National Security and the Interior by the National coalition, while AL- Iraqiya submitted officially their nominations for the post of defense minister, but it has not received any official response by it. "

"From the names submitted by AL-Iraqiya to fill the post of defense minister, Falah Naqib, Salem Daly and Hisham Darraji."

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