He (Al-Maliki) will nominate himself for the post of prime minister,” Asma Mousavi told FNA on the sidelines of the first meeting of the Chairmen of Foreign Policy Committees of the Parliaments of Syria Friend Countries here in the Iranian capital on Wednesday.
She underlined that the prime minister’s State of Law Coalition will have a long list in the upcoming election.
Parliamentary elections are scheduled to be held in Iraq on 30 April 2014. The elections will decide the 328 members of the Council of Representatives who will in turn elect the Iraqi President and Prime Minister.
The electoral system is based on the open list system of proportional representation using the governorates as the constituencies.
The largest parties on the approved list include the Prime Minister's State of Law Coalition, the Sadrist Movement (Ahrar), the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Iraqi National Accord. Significant new parties include the former militant group Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq and the White Iraqiya Bloc, which split from the Iraqi National Accord.
The counting system has been changed slightly from the largest remainder method to the modified Sainte-Laguë method due to a ruling by the Supreme Court that the previous method discriminated against smaller parties.
Seven "compensatory" seats that were awarded at the national level to those parties whose national share of the vote wasn't reflected in the seats won at the governorate level have been allocated to individual governorates.
