Survey: The Majority Supports Allawi's Appointment as Head of Government

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The results of the survey conducted by Al Furat Center for Press Research and Studies on a sample of Iraqi citizens in the 18 Iraqi provinces have shown that the great majority have expressed their resentment towards the governmental performance.

58% of the surveyees support Dr. Iyad Allawi's appointment as head of the coming government, while 69% have evaluated the corruption cases against the former ministers as a settlement of political disputes. On the other hand, 95% of surveyees have rejected the sectarian quotas system and 88% have supported the Iranian role in igniting the sectarian calls in Iraq.

The survey, in which 924 have participated, was conducted during the period of September 19-23/2005.

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Also in the poll which is very bad news for the Constitution is that 68% do not want a federal state in the South of Iraq.

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1. Sunnis See Shi'ite Manipulation Ahead of Iraq Vote

BAGHDAD (Reuters) -- Sunni officials and independent Iraqi politicians reacted with dismay on Monday at a move by the Shi'ite and Kurdish majority to make it harder to defeat an October 15 referendum on a new constitution.

Analysts also questioned the fairness of the move by Iraq's parliament, which set electoral rules making it far simpler for the draft constitution to pass -- as Shi'ites and Kurds want -- than for it to be defeated by Sunni opponents.

"It is a clear forgery," said Saleh al-Mutlaq, spokesman for the Iraqi National Dialogue, a leading Sunni Arab group, and one of those who helped draw up the new draft constitution.

In a session on Sunday, Shi'ites and Kurds, who hold more than three quarters of parliament's 275 seats, decided the existing interim constitution should be interpreted in such a way as to create two different thresholds for the referendum.

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They just lowered the standards on what is needed for the Constitution to pass all but ensuring its passage of course.

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2. Do you support a Sunni-Shiite secular alliance

that is headed by Iyad Allawi?

78% said YES. Now that is good news.

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