INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Shafaq News / A number of clerics in al-Anbar rejected, on Friday, the recent efforts to form a new political alliance in the
governorate. The clerics said in a statement today, "We do not need many leaders
We only need unity..."Prominent political and tribal figures held a meeting on August 21, at the residence of former Minister of
electricity, Qassem al-Fahdawi, in Ramadi, al-Anbar.A source who attended the meeting revealed to Shafaq News agency that the meeting was
held to form a new alliance supported by the Coordination Framework, which aims to exclude Parliament Speaker Mohammed al-Halboosi and his
party from the political process in the governorate. Hikmat Suleiman, a tribal sheikh who attended the meeting, said that it is nothing but
an opportunity for politicians, tribal figures, and intellectuals to discuss the current situation.He added that more meetings will be
prepared to discuss forming a new alliance in al-Anbar.Such meetings have nothing against the Parliament Speaker or his party, Suleiman
indicated, noting that the new alliance will have plans and propositions, and try to prevent limiting the political process to one political
party in al-Anbar.For his part, member of the dissolved al-Anbar provincial council, Taha AbdulGhani, said, "everything is possible in
However, we did not introduce ourselves as competitors to anyone
We are an Iraqi national project that has its own goals and orientations.""We will surely monitor the authorities' mistakes and try to fix
We are not anyone's opponents", he added.
