While we were eating turkey, the Iraqis were shaping their government. Last Thursday, Iraqi President Jalal Talabani officially named Nuri al-Maliki to a second term as Prime Minister in a televised ceremony. His nomination came after months of dispute and power struggles within Iraq following the March elections. al-Maliki has the task of forming a new cabinet and only has thirty days to do so. Al-Maliki urges the Iraqi people and politicians “to work on getting past all the disputes that had dominated the past stages" in order to achieve success. In the proposed cabinet, the three major governmental positions will be filled by members of Iraq’s largest ethnic groups: the Shiites, the Kurds and the Sunnis. President Obama is very satisfied with this plan.
Personally, I am pleased to see the Iraqis continuing to work towards solidifying their government. I feel that by having the three largest ethnic groups play influential roles, the people of Iraq will be best represented. I am interested to see what al-Maliki does during his second term.
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