Ahrar : Today, Al Arab ran an extensive interview with Ahrar Leader Ayad Jamal Aldin.

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In the interview, Jamal Aldin explained his vision for one Iraq, free from corruption and sectarianism.Read an excerpt from the interview below. The full text can be read on our website hereThe Iraqi MP and leader of Ahrar party says for Alarab online: National reconciliation is the only option for Iraqis


London - Alarab Online -Nadia Al-Turkey , Ayad Jamal Aldin, an Iraqi politician now heads (Ahrar Gathering) cluster in the Iraqi parliament is known for his liberalism - although he is a committed Shiite - is against the clerical rule in public, and calls for a secular state and says " many of the clergy agrees with him, especially in Najaf, but they do not show it on the media. "

In 2005, He joined the Iraqi List headed by Dr. Ayad Allawi, which advanced secular slogans. Despite his constant attack on the system of clerical rule, and the Iranian intervention in Iraq, but he will not attack and criticize the American occupation forces nor to the U.S. policy in Iraq.

Al-Arab Online met with Ayad Jamal Aldin in London to mark his visit in preparation for the upcoming elections and we had the following dialogue:
Q: What are the reasons for your visit to London now?

There is a large and deep rooted Iraqi expatriate community in London and this is what makes Britain a key electoral arena targeted by many of the political forces to attract supporters.
Q: Does this visit come within the framework of the beginning of the election campaign?

The election campaigns did not start officially, but in fact they started and this visit can be considered for checking positions and to connect with Iraqis living in London. We want one Iraq, not a united one.
Q: You are now leading Ahrar Gathering in the Parliament, what are your goals, and where do you put yourself among the other blocks?

Our goals are consistent with the desire of our people, we want one Iraq, not united, and the difference between both terms is essential, the holders of the united Iraq slogan say that Iraq is dismantled they put it together, but the desire of Iraqis is something else, they see one Iraq and we are against the dismantling of Iraq, we do not want a religious or ethnic blocs, we do not want Shiitestan Kurdistan.

I am a believer in different social components in Iraq, and this is a fact and the most beautiful picture in Iraq, but what unacceptable for me is to build the political forces on the basis of social differences.

I look at the parties exactly like the football teams, it is a disaster for Iraq to have a Shiite football team, another one Sunni or Turkmen, thus the football stadiums will be a field for bloody war.

Just as football teams are formed away from the ethnic and sectarian groupings, I am with one team composed of different social backgrounds and this team will be having fans from different social backgrounds.

We say that political force should be national, and we consider rising slogans is a crime against the Iraqi people, and the political powers must compete according to their political not ethnic programs. I think this is the desire of the Iraqi people.
Q: Following the agreement on the electoral law and remove the obstacle for processing the legislative elections on the seventh of March, where is Iraq heading?

All elections in the world should have the necessary circumstances and conditions available to be successful, in the beginning, we must have agreed constitution. Iraq's current constitution is essentially non-agreed and has gaps are causing the crisis, where there is one of the transitional articles obligates the Iraqi government to introduce the amendments in the first four months of its mandate, and four years now passed we have not seen any change. The current Constitution with its transitional articles says that Maliki's government has to be committed to taking a census as we have not had one since 1977. This has not yet been done despite the fact that the Planning Minister had expressed his willingness to undertake this process, but the political forces have prevented this and I consider them the feudal political forces. It is not suitable for the environment of financial corruption to do this census for many purposes, such as to avoid accountability.

We must provide an agreed constitution in Iraq, a census and a law of the parties.

Reconciliation with Baathists is the solution to get Iraq out of its current situation.
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