President has rejected the nominee for Prime Minister he says his brothers quit someone rejected by the testers were demanding an independent candidate so whats the way forward for iraq this is inside story. Thank you thank you. Hello and welcome to the program im dead for months now iraqis have been voicing their anger and demanding a change in their Political Leadership they say they are fed up with corruption unemployment and a lack of basic services hundreds of people have been killed the Prime Minister resigned in november and now many are rejecting the nominee to replace him they say. Only help iran extend its influence in iraq and president but he says he will resign rather than appointed but the main Political Blog about picked an identity is refusing to back down well bring our panel in just a moment but 1st this update from dorset jari in baghdad. A political maneuver with potentially far reaching consequences iraqs president has sent his Resignation Letter to Parliament Saying he would rather step down than approve a new Prime Minister and a 3 page statement by him solace said out of my keenest to avoid bloodshed and protect civil peace i will not name a satellite downy as a candidate for the next Prime Minister i danny is the governor of buster province he was nominated for the role by the largest bloc in parliament. That coalition is made up of mainly uranium backed political groups which is why their candidate is being fiercely rejected by their opponents i dont he was picked to replace other uphill mettie who resigned in november after months of antigovernment protests but the governor has been accused of neglecting his own province busser is home to more than 70 percent of iraqs oil reserves but locals dont have the basic necessities like clean water and reliable electricity i dont think they will accept his resignation i think they will try to convince them is that you must accept our candidate in a way or another but i dont think he will accept that he will try hard also to push over in just as i said someone who is independent prosecutor and didnt inside the political process and look for the future of iraq. Protesters have strongly rejected i thought on his nomination and thats the reason president saleh gave for not approving the choice it now means since mattys resignation no party has proposed a candidate who has been acceptable to all sides the protests which began here in early october have been about demanding political change in iraq a new electoral law was finally passed on tuesday which seemed to please most iraqis and now it is the latest move by president saleh to reject i done his candidacy is likely to strengthen the demonstrators position. They were such a Party Al Jazeera back that. Lets bring in our guest joining us here in. An independent research your own identity politics in iraq and the middle east in baghdad a professor of International Relations at the university and joining us via skype from hertfordshire in the u. K. A soft hashimi hes a Legal Advisor to the National Council for iraqi opposition welcome to each of you to inside story. Over in baghdad what is your reaction to president but home saw position. No i think its not resigned he seemed afraid to say this is i think this is a politic movement he he want to leave you want to push out or put out all this bushing or from the wings and the political process now now hes sayed if you go on to. To force me to nominate a candidate of a big biggest block will the design he didnt say i will resign he said i will this is this is many many agendas and many wings and many denecke show their actions now serve out the iraqis seem and i think that mr he used that condition because he want to be soprano because he want to jump on the custom tuition question say for the president then he must follow that condition say he must accept the. Whole nominated from the biggest block but he refused that i say that you this is right out of the constitution that they would use that but he i think there is and the conditions are there that actions forcing him to sit these the protestants and the. Other followers and american edge and ok that all of us are going to have a lot all of this. In hertfordshire just give me your initial reaction to this position that the president has taken and constitutionally what does parliament do next with this threat of a resignation well thank you very much for having me on the salami to how my sincere condolences to all who lost their lives and were injured during these protests now in terms of the president s resignation or the threat of resignation and your question was current threat to resign there are a number of reasons for that i think hes unclear at this moment in time and as to who is the largest bloc although he did receive a letter from the head. The parliament nominating and the now being the largest bloc but thats just not forget that one of the one of the elements that constitute an be no lock is the satirist movement and the movement has essentially with jawbone its whats on the other now with particular focus on the nomination of the Prime Minister said that outlook might to allow the demonstrate just an alternate somebody and therefore i think constitutionally whether the albin outlook remains to be the largest log is questionable the other issue is i think thats not being focused on is the fact that the kurdish bloc the kurdish parties have expressed their absolute and utter rejection of the new electoral law immediately after the passing of the law we had a press conference by the law quite a cut a lot and they have said clearly and unequivocally that they rejected for certain deficiencies that they did not make clear suddenly the electoral law did not meet the demands of the demonstrators all of that you must demonstrate says most importantly that it relied on a majority majority vote rather than the not if you plus one demanded by the demonstrators right so i think i think the president was also motivated to put his resignation in solidarity with the kurdish law that rejected be a natural law ok i dont agree with that that he did so in solidarity and also if the president wanted to resign when he have actually resigned them in this letter his has just threatened to resign so whats behind that move well we have to know for a death that has a veteran of the ethnic sectarian cotto in iraq he is the figurehead of the kurdish piece of cake of the ethnic sectarian kota in iraq which the protesters are protesting revolting against the ethnic sectarian caught in the Political Class in iraq today are going around in circles the circles are whether it be in the constitution the parliament or the presidency or giving figureheads for candidates who are better. Of the ethnic sectarian kotor such as danny who is the governor of basra and who is very known for being one of the very prone poor iran politicians in post 2003 iraq so the ethnic sectarian kotor class in iraq today is trying to find so many different ways theyre trying to buy time from the protests there is for them to forget for the for the protesters to be put in a situation and in a reality a situation where they have to accept one of the candidates from the very same Political Class the protesters have been very clear they want to rewrite the constitution they wanted to dissolve the parliament which consists of the series same Political Parties that have been ruling iraq since 2003 a u. S. And store a u. S. Invasion installed regime and constitution and parliament that has failed to provide the Public Services the edge of right education the social services and the right Health Care System to the people of iraq to the new democratic iraq and that were going to talk about the demands of the protesters a little later on but let me just focus on whats happening sort of in the parliament constitutionally and and salam back to you because you were mentioning the bin that block just a moment ago which of course nominated and i mean theyve responded to the threat of the president s resignation saying this thats about him quote admitted he was violating the constitution which gives us the right to hold him accountable in parliament and dismiss him is that a route that the block is going to go down it might you but i think they are going down a road that is against the demonstrators wishes because we are now we are now skating thanks to whats happening on the streets we are not only dealing with whats happening with an element thats exactly what hes doing i think you have to read your report just correctly said that they are motivated somewhat on iranian influence now we are looking at if you look insists on nominating and a guy whose history is not in any in any sense encouraging lets look at the asteroids so all of those look at his. History and being the Deputy Director of an islamic bank that was sanctioned by the us for helping me during a revolutionary guard apparently thats what operetta and therefore his nomination is not now is not exactly not only just not suitable but it also can be construed as somewhat humiliating to be people of the demonstrators on the streets yes they can take legal action against against the president but however i think the president is going to turn back and say i am going to i have made my decision in order to withhold so much violence thats going to ensue on the streets of iraq because of that nomination and i think i have made the right decision so i think he does happen to us and. In baghdad to what extent is this being used some sort of pressure card on the blocks to come up with an alternative name now i think they will continue and they now they try to force him from the battle amount and to relieve him from his presidency but i think everything will go on because mr president he will not insist for his and sign because he did that because i know him personally he is not ready to leave out to leave that. Was it was a sin and this is i think that could this only also they are not ready to nominate the end of that theyve said because very difficult though to move to another base and i think its very difficult to insist of wrong but i think this is politic but i think movement and also the other side his enemies are is. What the blood test him out of something somebody he want to push and i think they will we king theyre pushing against him i think next week many many negotiation will have been between mr president and the other wings but i think. In the end in the end of the sea and there is there is many nominated theres many candidates but i think in this and a and the nominated who is beside. The nominated from the American American agenda because you know there is many mains but i think there is because mr president he insists and now to find another one of. His i think he will insist. The chief of the iraqi Intelligence Mr moustapha cather me he is very near for the american side and he is that in many a relationship with the american side and american side they will use that situation too but his there his allies and the iraqi to bottom and Prime Minister because the street is very weak and also the biggest a list our biggest a bloc its not have the strength to fight to but they have no money to and i think about them and now its very weak and only for those happy to stand by various islands havent you agree with do you agree with what my guest from baghdad is saying i mean is this going to be resolved within parliament itself or often we see in iraq that issues are not resolved in parliament but rather theyre left to various factions and leaders and also external powers my guest from iraq is talking about the u. S. Influence most definitely iraq is a playground of influences and external factors whether it be the us or you run other neighboring countries and this is one of the main reasons why the protest movement was born in iraq in early october 2001900 the protesters are demanding the downfall of a gene which was installed by the constitution and the support through the support of the external factors as our colleague mentioned whether it be the u. S. Where you run and benign as the is the problem iran is the pro iran bloc in the Iraqi Parliament they are their largest bloc because of the negotiations they opposed to elections negotiations that happened informed that a majority bloc it is not because the people voted for them to become the majority and this is one of the main reasons why people are realizing there are so many flaws in the system in itself which is. Why people are willing to change the system throughout their own throughout their own towns throughout their own agendas and not the agendas of the u. S. Or iran whats happening in iraq today is an exact perfect reflection of iraqs reality iraqs reality is not but he has to face the agents of iran in the Iraqi Parliament he added i demand is just the figurehead of the ethnic sectarian quota the people did not protest against saddam or added i demand the person either put protesting against the entire system which includes the parliament itself which includes to do to rewrite the constitution that is covering up for the ethnic sectarian quota that is covering up for the Political Parties that are not focusing on how to rebuild destroyed country from the invasion before kissing and how to push the agendas and their interests whether they be economically or politically of those external factors as we just mentioned are there any names. That could be put forward that would be accepted by the protesters the because let me just put this to you we know that sources close to the shiite cleric with the other side of course posted this on facebook 3 names to me is the current head of the Iraqi NationalIntelligence Service and theres a retired judge in the end. Sort of seen as an independent liberal politician and hes also a member of the Iraqi Parliament would you know if any of the protests over the protestors would be accepting of of these people the protesters have been very clear with the especially the names that you just mentioned that there is a diverse diversity of opinions in between them for the shift id as the socalled representative of the secular list front in the Iraqi Parliament since 2014 he is not accepted by the majority of the protesters not because of his secularist views because most of the protesters themselves are calling for a secular state in iraq but because hes still a part of the ethnic sectarian kota and iraq and that shows in reflects that the people the protestors in iraq are not against the religious aspect only of the iraqi state but also against having anyone who were a part of the ethnic sectarian code. And iraq whether they be secular or religious was the focus of the me as you mentioned has a background of being a veteran of the ethnic sectarian cult in iraq and the iraqi state so that as clearly not even in discussion for the protests there is the protesters are focusing and putting their main focus on having the dissolving of the regime we were writing the constitution a new elections for a temporary transition a temporary government that would lead iraq to a transitionary period and then they would focus on having candidates to be put forward theyre even being very careful in proposing spokespersons spokespeople for the for the for the revolutionary protest movement because there were a lot of the conflicting. Differing opinions between the protesters might a curate doing the very early stages of the revolution right which rings into my next question as a lot. As a tourist saying the protesters seem to know what they want yet you know the opposition or the protesters are sometimes being accused of being poorly organized divided as well as leaderless has that worked against them somewhat but there is an underlining recent all doubt we have iraq is awash with militias we have seen their actions that devastate actions recently near the senate which where approximately 50 projects protestors were murdered and a number of them did not so you are asking on our protest to protect themselves against armed militias and we have on the other side the army and the Security Home just as were going on right to protect have had their arms withdrawn and they are completely powerless to stop these militias im attacking them straight to us i think not only i think i think the policy of relying what the socalled and thats why governments own admission the 3rd party they have not named and they have accused of committing crime against demonstrations have backfired on them because now the demonstrators are absolutely not i would say fraud but they are somewhat concerned. Naming any all or Going Forward with any nominations simply because of the c. And that there might be targeted or attribute and that they may done that they may not exist even after a while we have seen many just not exact feelings on the streets of iraq especially after the demonstrations of the gun and therefore there are there are reasons for the nomination there are reasons to shift it just because they govern obama to have backfired on them the government has tried and tried and time and time again to appear before the International Community is civilized as is not harming the protestors and when all was done and why moses were committed they pointed the finger at this 3rd party and thats where we are at the moment we have a ghost we have an unnamed faction that is committing murders and kidnappings and now we are asking the group just come out with false and nominate nominate certain faces and when a spokesman on their behalf this is going to be an extremely difficult in the current circumstances i. E. Nationally on the issue of the protesters and what they are calling for theyre calling for sort of the removal of the entire Political Class that has plagued iraq for the past number a few years and decades in fact given the point of view from the ground. Is that indeed to dism