Iraqi street has been occupied all through the last few days with the decisions made by Accountability and Justice Board which is labeled ironically as the Board of Accountability and Injustice, and we have announced some time earlier that unknown hands are trying to exclude the liberal, patriotic and nationalist currents from the political scene in Iraq and deprive them from participation in parliamentary elections in an attempt to revive the ruins of parties agent to Iran and reinforce the extreme right-wing currents, from which our Iraqi people suffered a lot over the past years for having controlled the articulation of power carrying the banner of sectarianism, and presumably the most affected of all from them are our people in the south and the middle who are still suffering from lacking of electricity and  water services, and the lack of employment opportunities for thousands of young people in addition to rampant monetary and administrative corruption.

And by the time these Iran agent parties have perceived that their popularity in the street of Iraq has sharply declined because of national awareness and high sense of citizenship among our Iraqi people from south the north, they started to move their elements in the Board of Accountability and Justice to remove the patriotic, nationalist and liberal figures from the coming elections and this has placed the Board in the circle of accusations and doubts for its unfair decisions the application of which would drive Iraq in a dark tunnel that may bring it back to the stage of collapsed security and sectarian displacement which we all lived through in 2006.

Working in the sense of a statesman is one of the perquisites for a successful politician, and while we commend here the role played by both the president of the republic Mr. Jalal al-Talbani and his vice-president Mr. Tariq al-Hashimi in addition to others who worked away from limelight to contain the crisis sparked by suspicious elements, by building on national and political premises and from a sense that what the invisible hands wanted to do, stirred by Tehran agendas, is aimed at blowing up the national reconciliation and keeping Iraq in the place of externally overpowered  weak states.

As the CNU appreciates the position of both the president and vice-president of the republic and all other benevolent efforts, it reaffirms that reconsidering the Board of Accountability and Justice and discharging it from suspect elements, hateful of whoever is nationalist, patriotic and liberal, will ensure imparting transparency to the political process in Iraq and a guarantee against a reversal of this process to become a tool in the hands of some right-wing parties lest they may exploit the situation to exclude and marginalize patriotic parties.

CNU
21/1/2010
Statement on al-Talbani attitude