Word: secularization
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...Kurdish leaders may be more inclined to throw their support behind him. And then there's the challenge for the Shiite alliance of finding terms for accommodating the Sunnis in the constitution-making process. The last thing the UIA can afford is to face a coalition of moderate, secular Shiites, Kurds and Sunnis who between them can muster around 40 percent of Assembly votes, because that would give Allawi an effective filibuster with which to leverage the process...
...International Republican Institute, whose board members include various GOP luminaries, are talking up U.S.-appointed prime minister Iyad Allawi's chances of beating the odds and staying in office. The reason? The strong clerical influence in the Shiite United Iraqi Alliance list may well be alienating more secular Shiites. Still, the more widely held view is that the best Allawi can hope for is a good second-place showing behind the Shiite United Iraqi Alliance list backed by Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani. But the Guardian notes even a second-place finish could see Allawi keep the prime minister...
...dominated United Iraqi Alliance, backed by Sistani. But the extent of its dominance remains to be seen. There were indications in the weeks preceding the election that the coalition of Prime Minister Iyad Allawi was reeling in the UIA's lead, drawing support not only from a middle class secular constituency but also from Shiites wary of giving clerics political authority. Allawi may have been helped by what appears to have been a de facto boycott by supporters of the radical Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr, on whose votes the UIA may have been counting. Indeed, if the 57 percent turnout...
...conditions combine to give tremendous advantage to the parties and coalitions that either carry some prior national or communal standing, or have access to effective national channels of communication, or both. Lists with access to government - particularly the Iraqi List of acting Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, which combines largely secular Sunni and Shiite candidates, and to a lesser extent, the separate Iraqis Party list of acting president Ghazi al-Yawer, which has a similar makeup to Allawi's although it includes Sunni elements critical of U.S. military actions - have the advantage of incumbency, particularly as regards media access. But that...
...Iraqi Islamic Party, which had previously served in the interim government, has withdrawn from the election on the grounds that security conditions make voting impossible in most Sunni strongholds. Groupings such as the Assembly of Independent Democrats of Adnan Pachachi are hoping to secure some support from more secular, urban, middle class Sunnis and Shiites, but the national-list system will probably keep their numbers relatively small...