Iraq: Maliki, Abdulmahdi and the Premiershipnote

The (Shiite) Dawa Party is said to be considering Iraqi Vice-President Adel Abdulmahdi as being too weak to compete to PM Nouri Maliki. The following 386-word report sheds light on the subject and tells how the Dawa Party is assessing the situation. It also tells how the (Shiite) Supreme Islamic Council in Iraq (SICI) is, in turn, assessing the situation, and what about the mood of the Shiite public opinion.