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Article: IRAQ - Shi'ites Have Ja'fari As PM Candidate.
- Article from:
- APS Diplomat Strategic Balance in the Middle East
- Article date:
- February 13, 2006
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Iraq the US faced a setback as the ruling Shi'ite coalition, the United Iraqi Alliance (UIA), on Feb. 12 chose incumbent Ibrahim al-Ja'fari as their candidate for prime minister, clearing the way for negotiations which should end with the formation of a government within three months. The decision was received with disappointment in Washington and London, where economist Adel Abdel-Mahdi, Ja'fari's rival and former Marxist-turned-free-marketeer, was popular.
US authorities had hoped the government would bring together Iraq's Shi'ite and Sunni Arabs and the Kurds and help reduce the violence. But the return of the Da'wa Party incumbent may make it more difficult ...