Word: vetoes
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...Sistani's objections to the TAL are that it offers minorities veto power over majority decisions, for example in allowing a two-thirds no-vote on a new constitution in any three of Iraq's 18 provinces to strike it down. And it's not hard to envisage a situation where if the provisions of the U.S.-bequeathed law are used to deny the Shiites the majority power they believe they won in a democratic election, Shiite opposition to the TAL - and to the influence, even the continued presence of the U.S. in Iraq - would harden...
...percent of the vote. The problem is that most Kurds don't really want to be part of Iraq at all, and are forced by realpolitik to accept affiliation with Baghdad, meaning that they seek the loosest possible federation for a new Iraqi national state, with plenty of minority veto safeguards. But Grand Ayatollah Sistani is strongly opposed to accommodating Kurdish aspirations at the expense of the central state, and if Allawi's showing gives him enough seats in the Assembly, the Kurdish leaders may be more inclined to throw their support behind him. And then there's the challenge...
...emerge with the largest share of Sunday?s vote, they also share a common hostility to Kurdish secessionism. Grand Ayatollah Sistani has made no secret of his hostility to the provisions of the Transitional Administrative Law - the interim constitution crafted under U.S. direction - that gives the Kurds an effective veto over a new constitution. The Kurd-Arab distinction may yet prove as powerful a destabilizing factor as the Sunni-Shiite one in the months ahead...
...later, this time for a permanent government. If the draft fails to win approval, the process will be repeated in 2006. But according to the law governing the transition, if a simple majority of voters in only three of the eighteen provinces reject the constitution, that counts as a veto. This minority veto provision insisted on by the U.S. (with strong Kurdish support) was strenuously opposed by the Shiite leaders, and may yet be a source of tension...
...then whittled down by the recommendations of outside scholars and senior faculty. Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby must then approve of a tenure offer before the formation of an ad hoc committee chaired by President Summers. This committee makes its decisions in secret, and Summers reserves personal veto power in all cases...