Power Struggle Blights Iraq Poll -- Times Online
A POWER struggle between Iyad Allawi, the secular strongman who narrowly won Iraq’s general election, and Nouri al-Maliki, the incumbent prime minister, has threatened to dash hopes of a stable new government.
Maliki, whose Shi’ite-dominated State of Law party lost by 10,000 votes to Allawi’s Iraqiya coalition, vowed to challenge the March 7 ballot in the courts. He said he would start legal proceedings, complain to Iraq’s electoral commission and demand a manual recount of some votes.
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