In his meeting with tribal leaders [which became Maliki's weekly ritual], Maliki said the following:

Official governmental posts must based on efficiency and not according sectarian or ethnic interests.

Sounds nice but the same thing said by the Islamic Party few days rejected by the Kurds and the Supreme Council.

Head of the Islamic Party Al-Hashmi offered to step down and reform the political process based on national interest.

"Election stunt" says Iraqi writer Fadhil Al-Rubai, Islamists and religious parties are losing ground and they are scoring very low among Iraqi voters, the major political blocs acknowledge this.

The hidden, ongoing conflict with Dawa Party led by Maliki and the Supreme Islamic Council, led by Hakim, on the "Tribal Councils", is just one example of the panic level of the rise of "secularism" in the southern provinces.

The same fear forced the Sunni blocs to admit the dilemma of the "Sectarian system", those who call themselves "Sunni representative" themselves participated in the establishment of this system.

Al-Rubai says that the Provincial election will put the first brick in the new kind alliances and probably unexpected allinces because politics is not only the game of the powerful blocs, it is the game of the losers also.

To confirm Al-Rubai essay, Al-Wasat reported that power parties in the south of Iraq are paying $100 for each vote and makes the people swear on the Quran to vote for the party.